I like Pai!

Hey guys hope you are all well :)

I've been chilling these last couple days on a beach in Cambodia and not done a lot but get sun burnt and drink excessive amounts of beer but it's been fun! We're off to Siam Reap tonight so i'm sitting in the shade in beach bar, just had a full body massage and a swim in the warm sea :)

So Thursday 31st Jan we left Mojito House in Chiang Mai with our new friends and traveled up to Pai, 3 hours north over the mountains and the journey was rather bumpy!
I found accommodation with availability called Darling View Point Bungalows and so we made our way there and was beautiful surroundings, very peaceful :) It was slightly up the hill from the town but only a 5 minute walk away.

It had a little swimming pool, bar, hammocks, camp fire at night and the owner "Darling" was a complete nutter! 50 or so years old and possibly the most craziest woman I've ever met who we where certain was always off her face on drugs!
We didn't arrive until 5pm so walked into town accross this rickety bamboo bridge and found a place to eat. The girls we met came on a different bus and got there earlier so after dinner we found them and went to a reggae bar after. We had a bit of a mental night the night before so we weren't feeling like a mad one so had a couple and went back to our bungalow and sat in the bar area and got chatting to some people staying there. We met the funniest girl called Francesca who was travelling with her boyfriend and just had a couple of Chang Chang Changs & was in fits of giggles all night :)

On Friday we rented 4 scooters and met up with the girls, they checked into place and rode the scooters up with their backpacks on too! We decided to go to the hot springs which was cool, so we all rode up in convoy, I didn't trust myself carrying a passenger so went on the back of Javiera's bike.

It was so hot in the springs, i'd never seen this before and definitely the wrong time to have gone there in the middle of the day as was boiling anyway! We were laying in one of the pools for a while which was 37 degrees,  so hot! One of the pools was about 80 degrees and you could buy eggs to boil! They were so tasty :) this nice Thai local let us have one each and he put some soy sauce on for us too.. so delicious! I randomly bumped into Francesca and Rob and got chatting to them for a bit and then they joined us for the day as we went to find a waterfall which was worth a look :)

Boiling eggs in the hot springs

On our way to the waterfall, can't really see it buut the scenery was beautiful.

So 12 of us went in convoy up to the waterfall which must have been about 30 minutes drive, got a bit lost but Zuzanna our "tour guide" got us there at last. Did a little trek up to it and chilled out. On the way back after the waterfall (too cold to go underneath that one) Javi & I got a puncture as we went over a massive pothole and probably didn't help that I'm a fat bitch lol! So we drove to a petrol station and a nice man helped show us where we could get the inner tube changed. Luckily was quickly sorted and made it in time to join the rest of the guys back at a view point to watch the sun go down. Was beautiful.

We got back, showered and changed and went out for dinner and met the two Toms as they arrived in Pai too :) we all had a mental night and there was 16 of us at one point, taking over the bars! I remember at the end of the night giving Mel a piggy back most of the way home and we fell on the bamboo bridge LOL.. MAN DOWN!! Things you do when your drunk.... that bridge really wasn't a good place to be messing about on!

So we stayed a third night which wasn't planned and Javi ended up seeing some friends she was travelling with before so the next day I rode the scooter. After breakfast (Pesto Eggs!!) The rest of us and the Aussie Toms went to find the Canyon but out of nowhere it chucked it down with rain, I ended up getting another puncture :S so went off to get that fixed and as I was at the back nobody realised I had to stop even though beeping my horn furiously lol!! So anyway mission  was over and went back to our accommodation.

Had a few drinks that night too but weren't feeling like getting trashed again so had a few at Spicy Pai - the Toms' hostel and back to Darling to chill out :)

The next day we all had breakfast and went our separate ways :( Lee, Lora, Max and I took a bus to Chiang Mai (3 hrs) then the overnight bus to Bangkok.

We arrived in Bangkok early hours of Monday morning, everywhere was fully booked so struggled to find a decent guest house, so ended up in Marco Polo which possibly was the worst place ever! Lora went to sleep but we couldn't so sat in reception using the wifi for an hour and in that time about 5 men and prostitutes were coming in and 30 minutes later leaving again.. DIRT! So we didn't feel like staying in Bangkok as the city is a hole so Max Lee & I went to to the first travel agents that opened at 745 and booked a bus to the Trat, which left an hour later (took 6 hours)! After there we managed to get a bus to the Cambodian border and from there got a taxi all the way over to Sihanoukville... 2 days of travel in one go but we made it by 11pm :) 

Just been chilling here on the beach for the last 3 nights and now waiting for a bus to take us to Siam Reap, so I shall post in a couple days after we've seen Ankor Waht!

Lots of love Hannah xxx