After arriving in Chiang Mai on Wednesday, I met up again with Craig at the Duang Dee guesthouse. He had befriended three girls along his way up north - Anouk and Lotte, from Holland, and Ursula, from Switzerland. After spending the evening with all of them walking around Chiang Mai, having tea at a tea house by the river, and then watching Craig eat grubs and beatles from the street market (I couldn't stomach a taste myself), Lotte and Ursula invited me to join them on the their trip up North to Pai. Although I had planned to spend a bit more time in Chiang Mai, I decided to go for it and went with them the very next morning. The bus ride was really windy and the girls felt very sick by the end of it. But once we arrived it was great. Pai is just a hippie town, where there are a TON of white hippies mixed in with the Thais. I sort of feel like I'm back in Sebastopol at times. There is even a Buffalo Exchange like in SF!
We are on our third day here and so far we have rented motorbikes to tour around the countryside, and this morning we took an elephant ride which ended with a bath in the river. It was sort of like an elephant rodeo, with the mahoots (sp?) commanding the elephants to literally shake us off their back and send us flying into the water.
Of course there are many more stories that have happened along the way, but I just can't remember them all. Hopefully I'll have something more interesting to say next time.
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