Hmm, it seems that we have crossed some line and morphed from normal respectable (ish) people into hippy wanderers, completely by accident! I'm not sure quite what went wrong. We were always pretty relaxed and having a good time travelling but you could at least rely on my constant appetite to keep us to some kind of routine, eg. having at least 3 meals a day and getting up at a reasonable hour for breakfast. Now, we are living in this timeless state of contentedness where nothing seems to matter. I forget about lunch, Brett's trying on crazy hippy trousers - it's all a bit worrying.
We left Chiang Mai and took a long, windy road through the mountains to Pai, which is a small little hippy town in Northern Thailand and we have been living in this very chilled, almost dream like state ever since. Our last morning in Chiang Mai was the beginning of our morphing. We got up and went for a late breakfast and then we just never moved. The day drifted on, we drank coffee, we got talking to some aging travellers from England with some good stories, we drank more coffee and then at 3.30 we drifted over buzzing with caffeine to get our bus.
Pai is a beautiful place full of little souvenir shops, coffee shops and bars with a mainly reggae theme. We are staying in a little bamboo bungalow across a rickety bamboo bridge by a river and a whole managerie of crazy biting bugs just to stop it being too idyllic. We've met some good people and found a good place and could probably happily drift on like this for a very long time. Luckily, we have no choice but to be dragged back to some kind of normality as we have the night train back to Bangkok booked for Monday. For now though we have a half moon party tonight and just time for some coffee and snacks first.
Oh, and quickly - back to the elephants! This was a few days ago now so I have to sift through the fog in my brain to remember what we did. We went to the conservation park and got to meet with real elephants. They are just beautiful animals. They are also amazingly agile and intelligent (so there goes the affinity with elephants I always imagined I'd have). We went trekking through the woods, played with the baby elephant, visited the elephant hospital and made some elephant dung paper. It was an amazing day! Oh, and we had a wee earthquake tremor which did nothing for my dream-like state. I was convinced someone had slipped something into my lipton ice tea - it was a relief when it turned out to be an earthquake!
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