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<\/a>Songthaew ride in outer Chiang Mai<\/p><\/div>\n
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We boarded the car with some school boys, it felt like I\u2019m suddenly 10 years younger.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Songthaew ride in outer Chiang Mai<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Chiang Mai Bus Station, at dawn this corner had been occupied by the same minivan company, with most of its minivans going to Pai<\/p><\/div>\n
Having arrived at the bus station, I found that I have run out of my change. The Songthaew driver waved a stack of 20THB\u2019s and told me he\u2019s got no change either. Then I tried every counter in the bus station, and finally resolved this problem by buying breakfast from one of the shops, and it\u2019s not the end of the problems, as I found out that the same company sent n>1 minivans to Pai every half hour. (I would be much better if they sent minivans every 10 minutes.) So I ran around the bus station again for the exact minivan I needed to board. To sum up, I spent the whole morning running around.<\/p>\n
<\/a>A stop in the road to Pai<\/p><\/div>\n
It\u2019s said that the road leading to Pai winds through mountains, yet after the Songthaew ride on Mount. Suthep, Having arrived in Pai, we picked a restaurant near bus station for lunch, where the waiters speak really good Mandarin, another indication that Pai has become a village for the tourists.<\/p>\n Lunch in a restaurant where the waiters speak really good Chinese<\/p><\/div>\n Our hotel room, or cottage if you call it<\/p><\/div>\n Having settled down in hotel room, mom thought that \u201cmotorcycle\u201d sounds too dangerous, so we rented bicycles from the hotel hostess. Judging by the map, I thought the road leading west to Pai Waterfall seems to be shorter, so I suggested we went there the first afternoon, rather than the more popular Great Pai Cycle. The good thing about riding a bicycle was that I can rode with one hand and took pictures with another, though most pictures were other motorbikers passing us<\/p><\/div>\n Road condition leading west to Pai Waterfall\u2019s quite good<\/p><\/div>\n After cycling about 2 kilometers, mom could no longer put up with bicycles climbing hills. So we went back to town and switched to motorcycles.<\/p>\n At the AYA motor rental in Pai, the front desk clerk asked as in three languages did we know how to ride. As advised by other travel blogs, we answered yes, at least for a moment. So after picking two automatic bikes with all the possible insurances, the guys in charge of distributing motorcycles took us directly to a \u201ctraining ground\u201d beside Pai river, as they took it by default that we didn\u2019t look like motorcycle masters at all. After being offer a driving class At first we thought Pai should be a picturesque village, but it seemed that in winter, even in Northern Thai, leaves still fall and it\u2019s not too much difference to Northern China<\/p><\/div>\n First we went to the largest (and only) temple in western Pai, Wat Nam Hu.<\/p>\n Waterfront house in Wat Nam Hu<\/p><\/div>\n Waterfront house in Wat Nam Hu<\/p><\/div>\n Lots of chicken in Wat Nam Hu<\/p><\/div>\n It seemed that every Thai temple has got some homeless dogs<\/p><\/div>\n Arrays of chicken sculpture in Wat Nam Hu<\/p><\/div>\n Pai Suburb, finally some senses of countryside<\/p><\/div>\n Finally we reached Pai Waterfall We rode all the way to the waterfall to find it in dry season<\/p><\/div>\n Pai Waterfall, not too many people around<\/p><\/div>\n Pai Waterfall, I looked at the pipes and couldn\u2019t resist thinking that the only pathetic trickle was pumped up the mountain, though a someone nearby insisted this was tap water for the mountain tribes.<\/p><\/div>\n Traces of green near Pai Waterfall<\/p><\/div>\n Then we went to YunLai, which is also in western Pai. YunLai is located in a Chinese village, and the ticket clerk spoke very good Mandarian, on the word \u201cticket\u201d.<\/p>\n Parking lot of a restaurant near YunLai<\/p><\/div>\n Path to YunLai<\/p><\/div>\n Flowers below YunLai<\/p><\/div>\n YunLai<\/p><\/div>\n Pai at night<\/p><\/div>\n The rent of motorcycle is based on a 24-hour cycle. So we rode back to Pai Night Bazar for dinner.<\/p>\n Entrance to Pai Night Bazar<\/p><\/div>\n 7-11 Advertisement, I wonder why they celebrate Chinese New Year with Korean-Style Chicken<\/p><\/div>\n Geckos outside our hotel room.<\/p><\/div>\n END<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we left the temples of Chiang Mai heading to Pai. Our hotel helped arranged a Songthaew pickup to Chiang Mai bus station. It seemed that local Songthaew is a FIFO queue with capacity of 8 people, when… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[30,28,27,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}plus I was mostly asleep along the way, <\/del> so there\u2019s no feelings of motion sickness. Along the way I saw local governments repaving and widening the road to Pai, maybe not after long Pai will become a total tourist village, rather than the primitive Thai village it\u2019s famous for.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>
\nAs it turned out, this was a pretty bad decision. Though the road leading west was shorter and in better condition, but considering the fact that \u201cYunLai\u201d in the west is famous for sunrise, and Chedi Phra That Mae Yen in the east along Pai Cycle is famous for sunset, we took it all wrong.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a> of five minutes<\/del> in very good Mandarian, my mom and I went on bravely without a license<\/del>. Eh, it\u2019s after filling up our bikes and being charged quite some tips, for we didn\u2019t even know how to open the gas tanks<\/del>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>without being stopped by policemen or <\/del> accidents.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>