Christmas is over and after spending some days apart I meet up with Heidi in Pai in time to celebrate the new year.
We rent a bungalow and have our own house cat (!!!) Free of charge - kaching
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Found this flyer laying around. "No hippy bongo playing dreadlocked freaks please", mate - you've come to the wrong town then.
Taking a shower looked like this - pretty pretty
At Chang-o-clock we meet up with our new found Aussie friend Steve to spend the last afternoon of 2013 together. My instagram caption to this photo goes something like "Life of Pai", it's a hard knock one indeed.
As evening approaches we head out to the Trance Spirit Festival, stuffed on the back of a pick-up driving through the dark of northern Thailand. There we randomly bump into Mariana, a woman we met months earlier whilst exploring Luang Prabang. Such a funny coincidence, to meet her at the tiny Trance Spirit Festival of all places.
After some time we head back to Pai in time for the fire works, which turn out to be complete madness. They go left and right (and at some points along the ground so we have to run away from them) as they fill up the dark night.
To wrap the evening up we perform a (once and for all) quality check between Chang-Leo-Singha and have another round of peanut butter-banana-roti's before we finally head to sleep, wrapped in all of our garments to protect from the cold. Farewell then 2013! You've been a good year.
