Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. Pai – the mountain-trimmed community of Mae Hong Son – is usually especially coveted during the cold season. But amid the green lushness of the rainy season, this place turns out to be equally, if not more, stunning. 

Imagine the whole valley village blanketed with the morning mist, only to be brightened ever so slowly with the reluctant rays of the sun. But even when the clouds hang around, mingling with shadows of the mountains, the shifts of soft lights create many dreamy beautiful images that would be hard to forget.