Name "Ot" means "Tadpole" (babyfrog)
Born 1981
She is very nice and friendly , She is my best friend (27 years old). She like to eat the hold time , any fruit and green thing. She can do greeting thank you , swim and bathing in the river ,calling to ask for food , play football , pick up the thing , give a hug to you and her friend , above water with Songkran festival and dance. You can climbing on her back by her trunk and leg.
Climb up on the trunk
Spray !!!
!!!!!
Giving shoe !!!
Name "Phanom" means "Thai greeting"
Born 1958
She is very nice and friendly , oldest in the camp ( 50 years old). She like to give a hug to you and her friends. She can do greeting thank you , play football ,play and bathing in the river ,above water with songkran festival , pick up the thing. She like to eat ang fruit and green thing (vergetarian). You can climbing up on her back by her leg.
Give a Hug.
Climb up on the leg.
Spray!!!
Name "Tut Dao" means "Movie star"
Born 1990
She is friendly and nice (18 years old). She look like the superstar in the camp. She is beautifully walking. She can play mouth organ , greeting thank you to give a hug to you and her friend , pick up the thing , to play football ,to above water for play Songkran festival. You can climbing up on her back by her truk or leg.
Climb up on the trunk
Spray!!!
Name "Pompaem" means "Lovely girl "
Born 1989
She is friendly and nice (19 years old). She is small body , but eat a lot. She like to play and bathing in the river , above water to play Songkran festival , play football , greeting thank you , to play mouth organ. You can climbing up on her back by her leg.
Climb up on the leg.
Spray!!!
!!!!!
Name "Tong" means "Gold"
Born 1998
Can put a hat on your head. Can pick up stuff. Can play football.Can drawing a picture. Can play Hamonica and dance. Can step accross people laying down. Some time very nougthy. And like to play in the water.
Pai History
There are many theories on how Pai named . Some believe that the word Pai refers to a young bull elephant mentioned in Northern Thai chronicles .
Some say the word derive from the fact that ancient relics belonging to the Lua tribe have been found in the district . The Lua were amongst the first settlers of the Pai district and were renowned as great warriors of the night devils who came out in the dark hours to wreak havoc . The local people called the devil Prai . Over the years the name was amended to Pai . Another explaination is that Pai was named after the leader of the Shan migrants who first established the village . Yet another interpretation , most likely the true one , translates the word Pai from the Shan language to mean “ migration ” . The word is pronounced Pai with a falling tone and means to escape migrate or move away. Over the years the tone and spelling were modified ti Pai . If the linguistics of the Shan and Northern Thai language are studied closely this interpretation seems the clearest .
Historical documents state that the first community was established in the year 1251 by Shan people who were migrating from wars in the Shan state . They stablished the village near the site of old village that is called Wieng Nua ,
north of the present day Pai . The site they chose was abundant in natural resources
and strategic base in time of war . This led to fighting between the Shan and Northern Thai for dominance in the area , during the reign of King Mengrai when the northern Thais held power and had a strong army .
Northern chronicles mention the construction of a kingdom or domain called Chiang Saen
that was built 69 years before Chiang Mai . Around the year 1323 Pai was part of the Chiang Saen kingdom .
The last war took place in 1869 , when Shan soldiers efeated Pai and burned the village down to the ground However , soldiers from Chiang Mai repulsed them in the end. After that, the village was moved to the location of what is the present village today.
During the Bangkok era Thailand’s various kingdoms were joined together to form one unified country. The Chiang Mai or Lanna kingdom, of which Pai was a part, became unified with the rest of Thailand in 1911.
On the 10th of May 1911 the Secretary of State of the defense Ministry announced
that Mae Hong Son was formally a province and that Pai was one district within that province.
During the Second World War the Japanese explored Pai and constructed a transportation route from Chiang Mai to Burma via Pai,
which is the same road used up to the present day. The old route that the Japanese built during the occupation was hardly changed.
This was the first time that Pai had received strangers from so far away.
The Thai government developed the road and it was finished in 1980. The new road brought big changes and modernizations to Pai. There were many things of which the villagers had perhaps never dreamt that began to happen.
About 5 years later in 1985, Pai welcomed its second set of visitors from afar.
These travelers came from every corner of the globe with rucksacks on their backs in search of Pai. A television satellite was set up and the people of Pai were amazed to see their first long distance broadcasts.