Why you NEED to AVOID Pai, Thailand | Mae Hong Son Loop 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video we hit the road on a rental motorbike and head North of Chiang Mai to the first stop on the Mae Hong Son loop, Pai. Quickly our trip takes an unexpected turn when we stumble across an A330 plane at the side of the road, where we grab a coffee before riding the winding mountain road to the backpacker town of Pai. We grab food at a cat cafe, see the white buddha and see what burning season is really like as it kicks off in the region. While we really enjoyed being in Pai, and the giant white buddha was absolutely stunning, it's clear that burning season is not a time to come to Pai if you want to see it in its full, gorgeous, glory.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - 3:33: Coffee in a plane
3:33 - 04:27: The road to Pai
04:27 - 06:31: £12 Hotel
06:31 - 09:34: Carrot on the Moon
09:34 - 10:40: Walking Street
10:40 - 17:49: White Buddha in Burning Season
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Broad family history now of people asking “are you TH-camr?” 😂
Loving this video I’m getting to see areas I haven’t seen before! It’s beautiful in Thailand!
😂😂 Thank you! It’s so great here, can’t wait to show more of it 🥰
Thanks for another awesome video. The temple looked so pretty! So sad about the smoke. In Canada wildfires happen in the summer (though many of these are human caused), in some recent years there were weeks when you could barely see to the end of the street for the smoke. It really affects your physical and mental health when you can’t see the sky and the sun turns red! Excited to see the rest of your trip on the bike!
Thank you!! It was such a lovely temple, we’ll have to go back when the smoke is gone. Oh god that sounds awful, and I’m complaining when I can’t see the mountains 😂 that sounds terrifying! 😓 Thank you! 🥰
Nice to have a reason for another visit, but yeah nasty smoke can really ruin your day/holiday/view!
Such a great video showing so much beauty but also some honesty about the negative sides such as the more tourist areas and the burning season. Very balanced and fun to see you guys enjoying it!
Thank you! It’s such a beautiful place, but we’ll always be honest about the bad things. Thanks for watching 🥰
Drove from Chiang Mai to Mae Sot I almost stayed overnight in Pai. What a place! Full of weird foreigners, tat clothes, rip off prices, bad attitude from the locals --nah! I just kept driving to Mae Hong Song! Much better there!
Yeah the locals seemed really fed up of the tourists, it didn’t feel like the Thailand I love, definitely preferred the rest of the loop!
Thanks, I speak Thai and the locals were flippant / rude! I told them so and left! The foreign idiots have made the locals disrespectful and I cannot blame them!
Great video! Beautifuly filmed and so interesting. Good info about not going to the north in February- I was thinking of doing a tour of the north next Feb but I'll go to other regions instead! Thanks!
Thanks!! Yeah it’s worth arranging your trip around avoiding the burning season, it’s such a beautiful place you definitely want to see it while it’s clear! 😊
I foresee your channel blowing up, always informative with a great sense of humour.
Thanks so much! I really hope your foresight is right 😅💖
Another great presentation, very informative. Again, thanks for sharing.
Thanks! 🥰
Another great video! I think it’s important to show the reality of traveling and am glad that you don’t fall into the “OMG! Everything is soooo amazing” trap! Hope that the burning didn’t affect your bronchitis too much. Also glad to see that Dom got to play dress up! He does love a costume doesn’t he? Looking forward to part 2👍❤
Thanks! And same, I don’t want to lie, it’s quite shocking tbh and I wasn’t aware what it was really like until this week. Luckily I’d pretty much recovered by then so it wasn’t too bad! Haha didn’t realise he’d love it so much 😂 cheers! 🥰
A full sized plane in the road, Fled Flintstone, a cat cafe, avocado shakes...I wonder why this was titled why to avoid Pa... oh
Fires aside, I was bummed when the video ended because I wanted more!
It was a wild day! haha sorry it bummed you out but that’s great to hear 😂 I hope you enjoy the next one, Dom discovers his phobia of bats!
A lot of my Mum's British friends have been recommending Pai to her but I don't think it's quite her thing, it just looks like Pattaya in the mountains to me 😅 that being said the hot springs and nature spots do look really nice up there so maybe one day we'll visit 😊
Yeah I’ve heard a lot of people say stuff about it being similar to party places in the south. Tbh it felt like being back home there were barely any Thai’s on sight and everyone was just drinking or smoking the green stuff now that it’s legal 😅 but then there was a lot of great stuff to see too, I’d say it’s worth a visit! But don’t go too out the way for it 😅
Nothing like pattaya
@@markbrooke4100 not like Pattaya, more like phi phi without the beach
It most definitely is not like Pattaya at all. I have just been to Pai, Pattaya and back to Pai.
Riding a motorbike is better than riding in a car due to so many winding bends around this loop. You would not get much motion sickness on a bike.
Very true! 😅
Pai it’s great place where I have been there two months ago.
Hopefully the channel continues to grow.
Thanks! Hope so too 😅
Burning season sounds a lot like wildfire season in the statets. In CO, it's definitetly like that.
Yeah it must be pretty similar, though here the fires are usually man made. It could be largely prevented through using machinery instead sadly but it’s expensive and the slash burn method costs nothing for farmers
O yes, mini map on the intro! 💪 :) This town looks lovely and wild at the same time❤. This Burning season looks like hell, this shows some differences in culture and the need to spread knowledge. Here in Poland burning fields is illegal and heavily punished, but we had massive problem with it for years. Add to that the worst air quality in the EU and you can understand why most of the kids have asthma and other respiratory problems. I hope Thailand will understand this quickly.
Haha knew I had to get the map in! It took ages to work out how to do it though 😂😂 yeah it’s pretty horrendous, unfortunately it’s been common practise for hundreds of years and while they try to discourage it, the machinery needed to do it without burning is unaffordable to a lot of farmers so they’re stuck doing it, someone I spoke to said last year they started getting nosebleeds from it it was so bad 😣 hopefully it doesn’t get much worse! Good on Poland for banning it though, people shouldn’t have to suffer their health because of it 😞
Wat Prathat Doi Suthep and practically all temples in the North, Northeast (Isan) and in Laos as well have two Nagas (mythical serpent-like beast living underworld) guarding the steps leading into the temple. It is believed that Naga King is the underworld ruler and is a devout Buddhist disciple. Thus, sometimes you can see an image of Buddha meditating under the tree with Naga King guarding behind with his 7 heads above Buddha's head to protect him from wind/rain. There are also standalone Naga statute along Meking River on both sides of Thailand and Laos, the most famous of which is at Nakhon Phanom with 7 heads. It might be noted that one of the largest royal barge of Thai King has 7-heads Naga as its head. The mortal enemy of Naga is Garuda (a mythical flying beast) which is supposed to be God Rama's mount. Indonesia and Thailand deem Garuda as high class mythical beast and Indonesia's National Carrier is "Garuda". Garuda is also the official symbol of Thai King, thus official document would have Garuda symbol at its head. When there is an official royal announcement from the King or Palace, the initial TV screen features Garuda for a minute before the royal text appears together with reading sound.
So interesting! I would love to read more about symbolism in Thai temples, thanks for your comment, loved reading it!
There is /was a huge forest fire too in that area besides the normal agriculture burning . CM was perfect from nov til two days ago.
Yeah throughout the whole Mae Hong son province there was a lot of forest on fire while we were driving around, very sad to see. Luckily in Chiang Mai it’s been okay until this week, it’s pretty bad today!
You are TH-camrs!
The temple playing Barbie Girl is classic! 😂
Wow, thanks for the warning about burning season. That’s awful!
Haha definitely one of the most random moments here so far! 😂
At times the editing style kind of reminds me of… “Emma’s brother who also lives in Asia” ;)
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Lovely and eyeopenig video for me!The burning season got to me😔maby a farm reform is in place,or is the need for rice so big.Probablly the farm burning spreads on other greenery.
Thank you! 💖 It’s the cheapest and easiest way to remove crop biowaste from the fields and a lot of farmers aren’t able to get the necessary machinery that’ll do it without burning. I believe the government has tried to offer incentives to stop farmers doing it but it’s just such common practise it’s hard to get change to happen. And yeah I think that just be it, it must spread from the farms most of the time 😞
Awww, so humble. Yes, you're TH-camrs. And good on ya for it. A great video. My kind of motorcycle tour for sure.
Haha okay maybe we are, just not the rich kind 😂 Cheers Marc! 🥰
Pai is the paradise and second home for all backpacker !!! 🏞
Drive carefully…Have a good trip 🙏
Thank you! ☺️💕
Nice travel vlog
Thanks!
A famously scenic road but also exceptionally dangerous; especially for inexperienced tourists!
Wouldn’t advise someone do it with no bike experience, got to have your wits about you especially on those bends!
Thanks guide promotes travelers in thailand
Thailand has got to be our favourite place to travel!
did you take all your belongings whilst biking? or did you leave them in a hostel?
Left them at the hostel occasionally but mostly had everything with us!
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Thanks, we live in Thailand. Love it very much! 🥰
Thank you for explaining what "burning season" is. I've heard you mention it before and was not sure what it was. We have something similar here in Tennessee, but on a much smaller scale, when they dry out the tobacco. I kind of like the smell, but I'm sure it's way different than what you are experiencing in Thailand. Great video, and thank you for sharing your adventures and knowledge!
I felt I had to explain, for years I didn’t have a clue what it meant because I’ve been lucky enough to avoid it but it’s actually pretty shocking! Haha here the smell is pretty rough, it makes the air really heavy and uncomfortable to breathe if you’re too near it. Thank you! 🥰
I was wondering why you titled the video this way and now I know!
Probably a bit nicer this time of year 😅
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Amazing
Thankyou!
I'm getting a bit mister affable influence in cinematography.
Which part
Around the beginning, wouldn't you say?@@AlwaysAway
Yeah, I learned a lot about editing from him, I was just curious which part stood out to you 😆
You did help with some of his videos too, didn't you? Credit where credit's due 😅❤
While I am here... shout out to Percyyy! ❤
Hahaha Percy says hey!💖
poor kitties they don't look well taken care of or happy either. .>^..^
In Thailand there is a lot of animal cruelty and a different attitude to animals, you’ll see a lot of emaciated animals with patches of fur missing, although the ginger kitty needed a good brush these guys were all pet cats from the house behind the cafe, I saw them wandering in and out, and these cats were definitely looked after I promise! The black and white cat we played with a lot because he kept coming over for belly rubs, he was really sociable and friendly. The ginger cat had a grumpy face but he kept curling up for naps in the cushions and chairs and seemed pretty happy albeit a bit scruffy. There is an altogether different view towards pets here, for example a lot of people won’t even let their pets come in the house and they have to live outside and you come across a lot of unhappy, not looked after animals which is really upsetting, I didn’t feel like these guys were unhappy or not looked after otherwise I would’ve definitely called it out ♥️
I guess we see this in a lot of places in the world but it still hurts me to see the animals just wandering around w/o anyone to love them. >^..^
When you say the Japanese built the road in WWII - that would actually mean British and Commonwealth POWs building the road in the most hideous and barbaric of conditions known to man.
Yes, and many Thai and Burmese, which we will talk about in the next video where we visit the town they mainly occupied
@@AlwaysAway "The Railwayman" is a highly recommended film to see the way the Japanese treated other people during WWII. Unfortunately one of my uncles was a POW.
@@FunAllDayLong4353 Will check that out, we know more about the railway in Kanchanaburi, but before we started the loop we had no idea the horrors were also up here in Northern Thailand. Sorry to hear that 😔
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you came on the wrong month....
Really…
Definition of TH-camr; an inconsiderate, ignoramus that has a tendency to film people without prior permission 🤣🤣
Are you giving your brother a run for his money? @abroadinjapan?
Great video love these as much as Chris' videos.
Haha love that, thank you 😂