Journey To Pai

 I have been quite sick for the last three days. I pretty much stayed in my
 guest house or slept out in the garden. I think the Abdominal  Detox Massage I had last Saturday, might have been a bit too deep for me. I know it wasn't the food, the food has been great!

On Tuesday morning at 9:30am I managed to pull myself together enough to get myself on a van to Pai. 

 
Pai is a small town, up in the mountains, north of Chiang Mai.  I took the meds I had picked up at the travel clinic before I left Vancouver, and some strong Gravol, and slept in the back of a van packed with 14 other people. I had no idea where I was going to stay once I got there. I just knew that Pai was going to be an amazing place.

On the bus, I met a German couple, Ben and Kyra, who were also traveling to Pai.  I was excited to see that they had a "Lonely Planet Guide', even though it was written in German. I  really should get one of my own.

Ben & Kyra

I asked them if I could tag along with them to find a guest house. In the guide, they found a great place  down by the river, just walking distance from the bus station, called Baan Tawan Pai.  You can check it out at www.pai-baantawan.com We looked at a deluxe room that would fit all three of us, and decided to share it. Our room cost us $3000 baht (split three ways) for 2 nights. That's $100 Canadian. It was well worth it.  It had a beautiful view of the river, a hot shower and a balcony.


 My new friends had arranged to meet another friend Ramsee (a beat box musician from Spain),visit  a hotspring at a nearby spa. They invited me to come along.  Ramsee showed up shortly thereafter, on a scooter, with a beautiful girl from the Netherlands. Since there were 5 of us, and only two scooters, the 3 of us, Ben, Kyra and myself, climbed onto the second scooter,and we all rode off to the hot springs. 

This is where it all happened.

The hots-springs and spa were on beautiful property. While the others were bathing in the hotspring pools, Kyra and I decided to go  for a massage. The massages here were $300 baht ($10). In Chiang Mai, the going rate for an hour long massage, is $150 baht.

This was such an amazing resort! I kept smiling at the reality that I was

 actually in Thailand! We had dinner there, and then got back on the scooter

 to return to our guest house. Kyra and I passed out as soon as we got home.


 www.oceanbloom.blogspot.com
 www.hardmagnum.com
 www.oceanbloom.com