Activities in Pai
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Thai Adventure Rafting
This French-run outfit leads one- and two-day trips. On the way, rafters visit a waterfall, a fossil reef and hot springs; one night is spent at the company's permanent riverside camp. Thai Adventure has two offices along Th Chaisongkhram.
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True Bee Gym
Offers scholarship in Thai boxing just across the Nam Pai. Lessons are held twice daily (8am to 10.30am and 4pm to 6.30pm).
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Thom's Pai Elephant Camp
The most established company and with an office in town. You can choose between riding bareback or in a seat, and some rides include swimming with the elephants – a barrel of laughs on a bouncing elephant in the river. Rides include a soak in the hot-spring-fed tubs afterwards.
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Pai Traditional Thai Massage
This long-standing and locally owned outfit offers very good northern-Thai massage, as well as a sauna (cool season only) where you can steam yourself in sà·mŭn·prai (medicinal herbs). Three-day massage courses begin every Monday and Friday and last three hours per day. The friendly couple that do the massages and teach the course are accredited and are graduates of Chiang Mai's Old Medicine Hospital.
A few local businesses near Tha Pai Hot Springs have taken advantage of the healing thermal waters.
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Pai Cookery School
With a decade of experience, this outfit offers a variety of courses spanning three to six dishes. The course typically involves a trip to the market for ingredients. Contact a day in advance.
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Fluid
Pool/gym complex just outside of town, roughly across from Sun Hut. Includes a herbal steam room during the cool season (per hour 80B).
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Spa Exotic
- Pai, Thailand
- Activities › Spa
Next door to Aroma, this place goes a step further and channels the hot water into its bungalow bathrooms; nonguests can soak for 80B.
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Aroma Pai Spa
- Pai, Thailand
- Activities › Spa
Offers soaks in private rooms and a communal pool, as well as a variety of spa treatments.
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Pai Hotsprings Spa Resort
- Pai, Thailand
- Activities › Spa
A resort-style hotel that also offers massages and thermal water soaks.
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Mam Yoga House
Just north of the police station, Mam offers Hatha Yoga classes and courses in small groups.
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Mr Jan’s Massage
For those into rough stuff, this place employs a hard Shan-Burmese massage technique.
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Back-Trax
With more than a decade of experience, this company offers multiday rafting excursions, as well as inner tubing trips and, of course, reiki lessons.
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Taste of Pai
This new outfit conducts nearly day-long lessons in Thai cookery. Classes involve a visit to the fresh market followed by instruction in six dishes.
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S Wirasut
Chalee and Kot lead instruction in Thai boxing at this rustic gym about 1km outside of town, on the turn-off just before Fluid.
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Pai Zip Line
This new attraction, 7km from Pai near Pembok Waterfall, features a zip-line above forest canopy. The whole thing takes about two hours and concludes with a dip in the falls.
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Pai Kayak
During the wet season, this outfit conducts two daily two-hour kayaking excursions along the Mae Nam Pai at 10am and 3pm.
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Pai Adventure
The one- to three-day white-water rafting trips offered by this recommended outfit can be combined with trekking and other activities. Can also offer a jungle survival course upon request.
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