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What’s the coldest you’ve ever been? Take that and minus twelve, then place yourself in a tent wearing everything you packed. Also: we fly on New Zealand’s most spectacular air route. Click here for more.

The goal from Pai was always to get out of Thailand. Pai, of course, isn’t on any international borders, so we had to get to Chiang Kong, which sits on the Laotian border and the Mekong River.
There are two ways to get from Pai to Chiang Kong. Option one involves taking the government bus back [...]