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A slice of Pai

Posted by bumblebum | 12th November 2009

We spent our last day in Chiang Mai mostly doing boring stuff like laundry but in the evening we decided to go and see some Muay Thai Boxing. G was quite keen to see it in Bangkok but it was really expensive, being 5x cheaper in Chiang Mai we decided to give it a go and it definitely gave us an interesting night. We found the stadium in a more seedy part of town, the cute hand craft stalls were replaced by ‘hostess’ bars, old men with young Thai girls hanging off their arms and lady boys encouraging us to buy a ticket – so we did! The quality of fights varied throughout the night, with the best one probably being the two girls who gave it their all for the full 5 rounds. They also put on a ‘show’ fight, where 3 fighters went into the ring blindfolded and then proceeded to punch until they made contact with someone – even if that was the referee! The ref went down several times much to the crowd’s amusement.
We were up early the next morning for our journey to Pai. We got a minivan

Continued | Our BIG trip