Flight was amazing!!! Qantas you provide the best rug to keep me warm whilst I sleep for 9 of the 12 hours we flew - good times! Landed at Bangkok International and from the second you get out side the sweating starts. Jumped on a bus and headed straight for Koh San Road and found a $6 a night guest house, its not that bad honest (we are looking for cheaper) we even had air con (cheating a little I know).
Breakfast - walked the length of Koh San Road and couldn't decide where to eat........so we found the worst place ever and decided to eat. WARNING! - Do Not Eat Eggs! - so Olly got stuck in!
Subsequentially he then spent the next few days in the toilet (both ends) enough said!
Beer time and at 80p a pint you can't go wrong - hangover to follow!
Spent day 2 nailing it arount Bangkok on tuk tuk's, traffic is crazy but the most fun to be had in smelly, over polluted Bangkok! Weather is mentaly humid and sun was hidden for the most of our time here but this was a good thing. Hit the beers loads and had some funny nights out, crazy festival which ended in us all having our faces projected on a screen to a packed Koh San Road, drunk and dancing like a fool, all fun. Beers finish and noodles on the way home (no Chick O Land for me) and the prospect of 3 hours sleep befor our fist of many trains!
Woke up at 5am and had to get to the train station. Train lasted 1hr 30 and then stopped Ayutthaya where we had 12 hours to kill. WORST TIME SO FAR!!!
We drove around the city and did about 5 temples (all templed out now) we now had about 9 hours to kill but were not counting. Spent most of it at the train station stairing at the clock covered in lizards and playing cards (woo is useless).
Trying to keep cool and the day was sooooo sweaty, sun was out and humidity was at it's peak. We found a small bar down the road and the Thai bar owner was amazing, gave us a good laugh playing tricks on Dale and Skippy!
All aboard the night train!!! - managed to get on the night train and travelled 13 hours to Chaing Mai, it's so much nicer up here, still hot but bit more of a breeze as we are up in the jungle style mountians.
Going to the Thai boxing this eve and then up at 8:00 to go on a three day treck. We start at Chaing Mai and then shoot north in a truck with a load of other people, we then treck on foot for 3 hours and swim in the water fall. From here we treck some more and then crash in one of the villages in some small huts (please no spiders).
Return form epic jungle treck and what can I say, the people are amazing and hope we can see them again at some point. Treckking was hard but the rewards are swwet, swimming in the warterfall and diving off rocks made it all worth while.
Day two of the treck was the hardest but the views form our local Thai village shack were out of this world. Our vie across the mountians was something I won't forget in a while, we what seemed like the peak looking down over the valley, amazing.
Note= if you plan on the jungle treck then three days is the most rewarding however, do not go when it's "dog season". Female dogs come in to season and the village is a wash of dogs all looking for that piece of the action. The dogs howell and bark all night long, fighting underneath the shack as you try to sleep. 5 am and you think the music is over, jog on, it's time for the roosters to kick off the early morning wake up call,not fun!
Back in Chaing Mai and Maccers is the first stop, rice was good but 8 day of it have now pressured me in to this decision.
Oh my god! Maccers Thai style couldn't have been any more rewarding, quad burger with super fries.job done!
Following day and sleep is on the menu after our time in dogsville! Once awake it's off to the snake farm, trust me it's worth going just to see a grown man cry, well almost (woo woo).
We are off for a few beers this eve and an early night as we have a 5 hour drive to the border where we will then have a 2 day boat ride down the river in to Laos!
