After leaving Chaing Mai, we headed north by the local bus to Pai. This town is unusual in that it is a bit like Boulder mall, Sedona New Age and Thai. It the midst of beautiful mountains, it is a mecca for Thai tourists and international travellers as well. We hit it at a peak time... Valentines Day weekend. They were promoting the celebration of wedding and vow renewals and love and all of the Hallmark type stuff which I would not expect to find here. Anyway, livley weekend with bands and street markets and events everywhere. Quite busy. But fun. After 3 days we were full of the frantic pace so jumped the bus to Sappon. Bus is quite a mainstay here....frequent and cheap and they go everywhere. They are also incredible old and impossibly running still. Can't beleive the old clunker made it up the gigantic steep grade...again and again. Hairpin turns, steep dropoffs...if you don't get sick from the dizzy movement you could still suffocate from the packed lot of humanity sharing the ride.
Here is a picture of the night market in Pai...the local hill tribes bring their stuff to sell..
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