Home Sweet Home @ Pai

Being indecisive as we often are, it took us a while to decide to settle down in Pai for two more months.We'll need a visa run to Laos soon but we like Pai so much and it's so great here that we're willing the take the hassle.

We stayed in a very nice room close to Pai's central walking street and yet incredibly quiet. We liked the woman running the place and the fact that it was more often than not empty. However, with the high-tourist-season looming, we saw the place fill up on weekends and wanted to check for alternatives. The final push came when we asked about staying longer and were a day later given the opportunity to stay at about double the price we were already paying. Still nicer than the Indian version of the same thing which happened to me in Varanasi some years ago. There I was quoted the higher price retroactively as if it's clear I should be paying more than before. I didn't end up paying the higher price but actually moving to a better place for a lesser price. This time it was similar.

We found a fantastic new apartment (we're the first to ever live here - it was finished a few days before we arrived) for less than half the price we were paying for the room at the guesthouse. We love the settings here. We're in the middle of a field and a few minutes walk from town. Everything is new and they got us brand new furniture after we paid the first month's rent. Enjoy the pictures and come visit us! :)

We're the right-most apartment out of 6 in this complex. For now, we're the only ones living here.

There's a temple at the corner of the complex so we hope it'll bring us good luck :)

That's the complex from the other side. Next to it they built a shop, not yet open for business.

Yet another angle, so you'll get a feeling of the surroundings.

Some of our neighbors :) In case you didn't know, cow's milk is meant for a calf, like in this picture, not for humans.

That's not our bedroom :) Across the road there's a guest house offering wooden rooms (ours in concrete, which makes for a better room) for about 6 times the price we pay.

That is our bedroom, still messy but look how happy that girl in the picture looks!

The evening we got the place we went to Pai's main walking street and on some T-Shirt stand there was this HUGE butterfly. Had to take a picture there. Wildlife is a our doorstep the whole time and we love it.