Actual Places and Events
Saturday, 25 December 2004
Here follows an actual acount of the past few days places and activities...
We spent most of the 23rd on a little rickety bus swerving through steep U bends (U bends, like in plumbing? Is that what they're called on roads?)between Sappong and Chiang Mai. The bus was excellent. The horn had its own hand knitted covering like a tea cosy and so did the gear stick. The gear stick one was especially awesome as it had two pom poms attatched, which made it look like an incredibly cute little knitted penis. I took a photo of this. There are signs all the way along the road saying (in English) Please remember: Driving on Left - excellent, there's a good piece of advice I thought as the bus rounded the corners on the right, pity they haven't written it in Thai too. The scenery around there is beautiful, acres of primary forest, massive clumps of bamboo and three metre long pink grasses like pampas grass, glowing in the sunshine.
For those of you who are worried about my cleanliness, (come on, I know you worry) I had my first hot bath in about six weeks in a stream coming from a hot spring just near Pai. This was such a beautiful place, some people must go there at night as there was melted candle wax near the best bathing places, which must be amazing as the nights are quite cold and the stream was about 40 - 50 degrees C. Pai itself is the most hippyish pllace I've ever been to, it's full of expats and their Thai partners and mixed race children who can speak and cook in about six different languages. We stayed at a place called Mr Jans where the huts are all set in a herb and fruit garden, it was beautiful and smelt nice because of the herbal sauna untill something went wrong with the drains and then it smelt like someone had smeared their poo all over the bathroom. There was also something lurking in the sink, don't know what it was probably an amalgamation of genetic material, hair and slime. The covers hadn't been changed either - they smelt of nice womans perfume, so there you go, a useful reveiw for people going to Pai.
