Pai is a wonderful, small (but growing) town nestled in the hills of Mae Hong Son province in northern Thailand. On this website you can get a good introduction to Pai with lots of pictures, you can check out a photo overview of the Pai floods of 2005, and you can explore the growing number of internet sites about Pai. | |||||||||||
| Pai | Here are some detailed pages about Pai. | ||||||||||
 | introduction Complete introduction to Pai with lots of pictures; updated every few months. | ||||||||||
 | floods of 2005 Pai often floods, but in 2005 we had a doosey. See "before" and "after" pix and videos. | ||||||||||
 | loy kratong Some images of the yearly Loy Kratong festival as it is practiced in Pai. | ||||||||||
| Location | Some useful information to help you get to and around Pai | ||||||||||
 | transport Schedules, costs, and advice for the bus, minivan, plane—even the Golden Dragon! | ||||||||||
 | maps Here's some maps of Pai. | ||||||||||
| Grass-Roots | Local action to help preserve Pai. | ||||||||||
 | help save pai hot springs from the bangkok bureaucrats! The Bangkok Forestry Department has taken control of this Pai treasure, which has been free and locally run for centuries, and slapped an outrageous 200B admission fee (ransome) for foreigners only—5 times what Thais pay. Now there is a way that you can make your voice heard and help take back the hot springs, even if you are not in Pai! It just takes a few minutes of your time. This page tells you how: http://allaboutpai.com/hotsprings | ||||||||||
| History and People | Excellent information excerpted with permission from The Paioneer by local resident Thomas Kasper | ||||||||||
 | history A fascinating history of Pai, from ancient days to today. | ||||||||||
 | hilltribes Some information about the Hill Tribes found around Pai and in Northern Thailand. | ||||||||||
| Outside Links | Here are some sites created by Pai citizens. These sites are not mine (not even the ones that are hosted on allaboutpai.com) and I do not take any credit or responsibility for stuff that appears on these sites! | ||||||||||
 | www.paithailand.info A commercial portal for attractions and businesses in Pai. www.paithailand.info includes advertisements for businesses of many types, property listings, and a forum for classified ads and other discussions. | ||||||||||
 | yellowpai.com Another commercial portal for attractions and businesses in Pai. yellowpai.com has a lot of different categories where people can add their business listings. There are also companion websites paievents.com where people can list events, and paiproperty.com with housing/land sale and rental listings. | ||||||||||
 | paitown.com A pretty, non-commerical site about Pai created by Thai resident ApRiL. paitown.com is in both Thai and English and includes some very detailed and hard-to-find info about the history and traditions of Pai. There are also descriptions of guesthouses, restaurants, shopping, and other businesses with an interesting and distinctly Thai bent. There are (Thai-language) forums where people can list events, post articles, and share photos. | ||||||||||
 | the pai post Pai's first local newspaper! Every article is in both English and Thai. Covers issues like flooding, the airport, tourist numbers, illegal logging, and other stuff that's important to the locals. Like all things in Pai, it's on Pai time so expect an issue every month...or so. | ||||||||||
 | pittalew art A site showcasing the amazing art of Sa-Art Nilkong, (nickname "Art"), who runs a little art gallery and guesthouse called Baan Pittalew, nestled in a corner of Mae Hee village a few kilometers outside of Pai. Art also has cool monthly parties where there is music and fire dancing, and where I sometimes bring my MEZ video screen for people to play with. | ||||||||||
 | thai hermit yoga On this site, some Pai locals offer periodic, 3/7 day yoga/massage health retreats in the Pai area. Check the website for retreat details. Also check out the blog of one of the yogis. | ||||||||||
 | lisu hilltribe experience The website of the Lisu Hill Tribe Homestay and Cultural Immersion Experience, offering stays, cultural introduction, jewelry making, massage, and detox in a Lisu village nearby Pai. | ||||||||||
 | thai language course: book and cd A complete, beginner-level Thai Language course (book and CDs) written by a Pai local. Provides Thai script and transliteration for every word. Provides both normal and word-for-word translations of every Thai sentence, to help you learn Thai grammar. | ||||||||||
 | buti's akha store Buti is an Akha hill tribe lady who has a small shop in Pai where she is always furiously working on traditional Akha clothes, hats, belts, and other items. She also sells jewelry, purses, and lots of other gear. Her husband and some of the local expats who hang out at this colorful place conspired to make this swell website for her. | ||||||||||
 | the boroworks shop The internet storefront for this one-man shop run by a Pai resident artist who hand-crafts one-of-a-kind borosilicate and dichroic glass art pendants. | ||||||||||
 | the healing company A website belonging to a local practitioner of Reiki and Reflexology. Pai is a very popular place for alternative healing techniques. | ||||||||||
 | moon village A little community of mostly Japanese hippies in Pai, run by a fun guy named Toron. I mention Toron and Moon Village in my Pai intro, but here is a site all about Moon Village that Toron and Shlomi Rafaeli created in 2004. | ||||||||||
 | seven color connection A page by Kaoru Inoue, who created a movie about Pai called Pai Time in 2004-5, and who created a video log (vlog) and another movie about 2007 Pai and the 7/7/2007 soul-love-fusion festival. Check out the wacky Japaneseness of it all! | ||||||||||
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 | slice-of-thai.com Tasty morsels of information on Thai food, language, culture, and general silliness. | ||||||||||
 | thailand fever I co-authored this bilingual cultural guidebook to Thai-Western romantic relationships. | ||||||||||
 | thai-english software dictionary Check out my Thai-English, English-Thai dictionary for Palm OS® PDAs. | ||||||||||
 | mapfling.com: free custom maps with your own labels Party? Meeting? Request a map, label it yourself, and easily fling it to your friends! | ||||||||||
 | world's stupidest everything See some of the worst the world has to offer, and add some of your own! World's Stupidest Holiday and Birthday Presents - stupidest-presents.com | ||||||||||
 | lurkertech: video tech and diversions Buzzword bingo, bill the borg, MEZ, lurker's guide to video, and Thai, oh my! | ||||||||||
 | thailand your way Travel with my friend Nang, who is a great nature, birding, and cultural guide. | ||||||||||
 | jeed illustration My English-fluent Thai friend Jeed is a freelance illustrator who is available for hire. | ||||||||||
| Copyright | All text and images copyright 1999-2008 Chris Pirazzi unless otherwise indicated. | ||||||||||
