High up in Pai

We left Chiang Mai yesterday and caught a 3 and a half hour minibus journey up North to a place called Pai. The whole journey we kept going further and further up the mountains and finally arrived very late and tired in Pai. We thought we could just turn up and find accomodation easily (which has been the case so far) but this weekend is special because it is the King of Thailand's birthday and so all the guesthouses where full!!
I stayed with the bags and a Chang beer whilst Chris trekked around trying to find ous a bed for the night. Eventually he returned, he found us a shack in a place called the Paddy Fields. He warnned me that the shack had holes and wasn't exactly what we'd been used to (which wasn't very much in the first place). But we got there and it was cool!!! A guy from cornwall Ben and his wife Pot (who worked in the kitchen) owned it, it was very hippy and we had a great curry and rice, loads of beers and chatted to Grace, Magda and Julie from the UK and NZ. They where lovely, and like us this was the only acommodation they could find. Our shak was so cute! Multicoloured matts on the floor, and it was on stilts. the loo was outdoors and open air, so you can sit on the loo and look at the stars, it also had a little garden around the loo.

There was only one problem - GIANT spiders!! The girls found a massive one in the toilet and then this morning they found another one in their shack which was a bit to o unnerving for us all.
Anyway, Pie is beautifull and it's like being in a documentary when you look around you, it really is stunning, see pics of our huts when the mist rolled in this morning.

Love,

Sam and Chris