a backpackers journey...from Koh Phagnan to Pai

12.02.2012
11.00 am pick-up from the guesthouse ( hostel, hotel or resort..wherever you are staying in) to the pier
12.30 pm take a ferry to Chompon ( Mainland)
Duration: depending on the waves, current and the stage of the motor ( ours just went off like every 40 mins for a minute before roared into full-power again) from 5 to 7 hours.

tip: sleep as long as you can and wherever you can...even outside on all the backpacks..actually the best place to be..inside half of the people were throwing up

deep sleep on the ferry

Did it? Still alive, still everything you have eaten today in your stomach..and you managed not to fall overboard? Congrats! Collect your bags..eat a quick snack..go to the toilet..and enter the next means of transport

12.02.2012

7.20 pm Bus to Bangkok

Duration: depends again..traffic, driver..blabla...we arrived at 4 am the next day.

13.02.2012
4 am, Koh San road
squeeze yourself with your luggage through hundrets of people still partying in the street...
order a Pa Thai and get someone to find a guesthouse ( in this case Ana ;-) )

13.02.2012
5 am till 11 am..sleep and stretch as long as you can..in this case the bed was hard as a plank..but whatever.

13.02.2012
12 noon till 4 pm..get sorted,buy a train ticket, be lucky that there are still 3 tickets left in the sleeping wagon to Chiang Mai, eat, drink, sit around, go on the internet, sit around..wait.

4pm..take the Ferry down the river to station Nr. 4

walk 15 minutes to the Train station.

Eat again.

13.02.2012
6.10 pm take the train to Chiang Mai
Duration: arrival time should be 7.45 am, but actual arrival time was 9.45 am...always..i repeat: ALWAYS plan 2 or 3 hours more into your timetable!

14.02.2012
9.45 am Arrival in Chiang Mai

9.55 am take a Tuk Tuk to the city or the guesthouse you want to go to..

10.15 am  Breakfast..sit..wait for your room...check the internet...meet with new people at the table and meet with people you already know from somewhere else..in this case.. Matt Diamond from the Rhombus crew. He wanted to leave to Bangkok the same night..but we convinced him to stay with us and visit Pai with us. 138 kms north from Chiang Mai.. supposed to be a really nice and calm and esoteric town. That´s what we needed....a break from the party's , some yoga, good food, time to relax in a hammock..

Soooo,
15.02.2012
11.30 am..same game again..pack up your stuff, get a Tuk Tuk to the Busstation, buy a ticket, wait an hour and get on a Minibus to Pai
1.30 pm bye bye Chiang Mai

15,02.2012
4.30 pm..hello Pai.

More to Pai....soon.

xx, j