{"id":100,"date":"2025-10-17T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/?p=100"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:15:48","slug":"pai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/pai\/","title":{"rendered":"Pai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Chiang Mai I went further north, to beautiful Pai. My hostel was so nice and peaceful I didn&#8217;t really end up doing much more than chill here. It was also a town that required a motorbike. I&#8217;ve been assured I could drive one, even take a quick course! But I will not, don&#8217;t worry anybody.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>Hearing jungle sounds when falling asleep:<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<ul>Ants in my bed:<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\u2b55\ufe0f\u2b55\ufe0f\u2b55\ufe0f<\/p>\n<ul>Ants in my hammock:<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\u2b55\ufe0f\u2b55\ufe0f\u2b55\ufe0f\u2b55\ufe0f<\/p>\n<ul>Ants in my pants:<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udeabjust kidding (luckily!)\ud83d\udeab<\/p>\n<ul>Staff at the hostel:<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34 (shout out to &#8220;just K&#8221;\ud83d\udc9e)<\/p>\n<ul>Views:<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<ul>SO MANY TOURISTS:<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\u2b55\ufe0f\u2b55\ufe0f\u2b55\ufe0f<\/p>\n<ul>Local food market:<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\u2b55\ufe0f<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>Book I read (<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<em style=\"font-family: var(--wp--preset--font-family--manrope); font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--large); letter-spacing: -0.1px;\">the Color purple<\/em><span style=\"font-family: var(--wp--preset--font-family--manrope); font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--large); letter-spacing: -0.1px;\">):<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\u2b55\ufe0f<\/p>\n<ul>Long chats with new friends:<\/ul>\n<p>\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" data-id=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4950.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pai was lovely, as you can tell by my honorary rating system. I&#8217;ll mainly post a couple pictures of the hostel. I did lots of reading and a little bit of writing. I watched sunsets and met some lovely people to hang out with all day and into the evening. The food was pretty good, though getting anywhere was a bit scary because it was <em>not<\/em> walking-friendly. I definitely didn&#8217;t trust all the tourists whizzing about the place, even if they weren&#8217;t under the influence of something, which I know was often the case #TimeToJudge. There was a big food market at night so I tried some different things and managed to not buy anything from all the beautiful clothing stands! #TimeToBeProud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone in town seemed to speak Hebrew though, there was like an 8\/10 chance that you were meeting someone from Isreal. That was quite interesting as it hasn&#8217;t been the case anywhere else in Thailand. Some of the stores even had Hebrew signs, so it&#8217;s a clear association with Pai for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All in all, I would definitely go again, to the same hostel, just for the peace and quiet and lovely jungle\/mountain vibezzz. \ud83d\ude0e\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ruby <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1792\" data-id=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4948.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" data-id=\"290\" 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My hostel was so nice and peaceful I didn&#8217;t really end up doing much more than chill here. It was also a town that required a motorbike. I&#8217;ve been assured I could drive one, even take a quick course! But I will not, don&#8217;t worry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.weatherstone.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}