Off to Pai, Thailand

So it was off to Pai after Chiang Mai - a little funky town further north, set in a large valley surrounded by hills and ridges piled high with tropical rainforest. One of Martin's friends had been here a few years before and he remembered the sunrise over the rice paddies in the valleys... and the cheese you could get at one particular restaurant in town! Well, as we told him... it's changed a lot since then - we could get cheese pretty much everywhere! (thankfully, the sunrise and rice paddies were still there too). We headed up with a girl we'd met at our guesthouse in Chiang Mai, Renate. The drive up was stunning - the scenery reminded me of the island of Kuaui in Hawaii. It was a 4 hour winding road through lush green forest with the occasional village or food stall sitting on the side of the road. Renate and her friends, Sam, Billy and Liron, made it a fun journey and we managed to sing and dance most of the way up there! Later on we found out it was Billy's Birthday so we celebrated on the porch of one of our huts. * Mush