The busride to Pai started eary in the morning and led over a curvy road through the jungle to Pai. At some point police or military officers stopped the public bus to see our IDs, not bad at all, however, they wore some machine guns with them making us feel a little uncomfortable :) Not being shot or arrested we checked into Mr. Jan's Guesthouse, feeling attracted a little by the name of the hostel. The first day we just walked around and booked our trekking for two days. It started at 9a.m. and a pick-up truck drove us some 1,5 hours into the jungle to a Karen village (a hill tribe finding its origin in Burma). From there our trek started with some 9 people and 2 guides. The trail led us over bamboo-bridges and through all sorts of vegetation which can alos be found in Europe except for the rice field which seemed to be a little boring at this pint. However, the more we good into the woods, the more the vegetation changed and suddenly we stood in the jungle like everybody knows it from TV. Amazing trees and bananatrees growing close to eachother hosting spiders and all sorts of other 6 or 8 legged, crawling, not so friendly looking animals including our best friends from the Khao Yai Nationalpark - leeches. One good looking girl from a rich familybackground got bidden and behaved quite manly: Congratulations :) After a long and tyring walk we arrived at a very beautiful waterfall which we used to cool down a little. After further 45 minutes we arrived at our dinner/overnight place, a Lahu village (also a hilltribe). The Lahu people cooked for us in our bamboo hut over open fire (definitaley not in accordance with European fire regulations :) a very delicious meal. After dinner we had a chat with our guides and enjoyed some beer and Lahu Whiskey (very delicious also) putting us to a deep sleep some hours later. The next morning the constelation of the group was rather astonishing: deducting all injured and sick people, only four people could continue the track. After some 6 hours and lucnch in another village we arrived safely at our starting pint and were brought back to Pai. The way home turned out to be a fun adventure because once again the rainy season caught us. Very strong rain made the road slicky and two times Uli and I had to pull the truck up a hill respectively jump on the back to give the rear axis some grip. In between we crawled under our raincoats with the two girls accompanying us.
The next day gave our life another fun experience: Uli and I riding on an elephant. Those animals are really hairy rubbing of your skin on the legs but it was fun anyway. We rode through the jungle on the animal's bare back. After one hour of being shaked around and enjoying the funny laugh of our guide we arrived at the river hosting brownish water which later, after the guide gave the elephant some instructions we did not understand, colored our swimming suites. Yeah, the elephant threw us of and after that we played with this animal for some 30 minutes in the water: climbing on the back to be thrown of again: Real fun, I swear!!! Afterwards we tried to clean our close, without any luck...The next day was a travel day once again and for some 13 hours we rode the bus to the Thai-Lao Border at Chiang Kong.
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