Day 6- Road to Pai

Venue: Nunya's Guesthouse, Pai It took us the whole day to get to Pai. Goodness. Missed the 1030am bus. Nua-ed at the bus station for like 2 & 1/2 hours, with my dying nano. I almost thought I saw fungus on myself. *lame* the 1230 bus was late. And it left only at about 1315 or so. Why? 'Cos the whole damn bus was full of angmoh backpackers & even more locals. I thought they only allow sitting people onto the bus. NO! I WAS WRONG! Plenty of other people were standing on the bus. The passageway was filled with local goods, kids sitting on top of those boxes. Basically, the bus is filled to the brink (till the door cannot be closed). That's the cool thing about backpacking. You get to experience the local way of life. By the way, it is a 4 hour journey into the mountains. *salute to all who stood throughout* I notice something interesting on the bus ride. I told you people had to stand right? It is all locals who were standing. In times like this, one will know who are the gentlemans and who aren't. *eyes alwyn* *sigh* There's this lady who was carrying a baby. She was standing next to an angmoh who's sitted. After a while, he gave up his seat to her. He's pretty tall and you know how short Asian buses are. Imagine having to bend your head for like 4 hours??????? Man! *t humbs up* Another angmoh who's sitting in front of me, he gave up his seat too. To a lady standing next to him. Kudos to these people!! I said before, I appreciate gentlemen a lot. Even in singapore, when someone opens the door for me, I will be full of praise for that person one. Especially when the guy is way in front of me, he just hold the door there and wait for me to saunter my way there. hahaha....there's rarely guys like this okie? One guy was especially memorable. I was making my way to the tutorial room. He was behind me. IN fact, about 5m away? He just rushed to the door and held it for me. I was so freaking impressed till I forgotten to thank him. hahahah... enough about gentlemen. We reached Pai only at 5+ or so. We shortlisted 3 guesthouse from the Lonely Planet. And all 3 guesthouse were full?!!??!?!?! I almost in a state of panic. I don't want to sleep on the streets leh...Luckily, we found Nunya's guesthouse. It is pretty decent and I think it is quite new too. No lizards again!!! hahaha... After settling down, we went over to Angie's kitchen for dinner and Siam's bookstore to buy books to read. I absolutely love Pai!!!! It is so lazy & quiet, even though there were a lot of backapckers around. It is paradise... Now, I know why some people even termed it as legendary. There's one time I wanna emphasis about Pai. On the journey there, I was asleep the entire time. (due to the effects of the motion sickness pills) till 10 mins before we reach Pai. The sun was setting into the mountains. It was awesome. I was totally mesmerised by it. It is like an alternative to see Grand Canyon. Freaking Nice!!! Anyway, we have just decided that we won't explore Pai and will head back to chiangmai in the morning. *sigh* why? 'cos we bought nothing for anyone. And Pai is not the place to shop leh.