The flight was 11 hours but seemed to take forever! I didn't get to sleep much so I'm pretty much aligned with Thailand time - its 1am right now and I can't wait to go to sleep.
Thailand is mental. We managed to work our way round the train system (which uses tokens instead of tickets!) and get a tuk-tuk to our hotel after about 4 hours. Tuk-tuks are like the happiest death traps ever. Our hotel is lovely, and everyone is overly friendly, in a nice kinda way. Everything is super cheap.
Khao San road is like the biggest assault on the senses ever - so many lights, and people, and noises, and so much hustle-bustle. There's vendors everywhere asking if you want pad Thai, scorpions, ping pong shows, bracelets, and funny little frog instruments. It's amazing.
Now I shall fall asleep, listening to the air con and feral cats, whilst staring at the awful hat Nick bought. x
The flight did indeed seem to take a hell of a lot longer than 11 hours. I watched a couple of films, tried sleeping, read an entire book, ate food, and still I seemed to have too much time to twiddle my thumbs. Oh well, it was the excitement I suppose. I struggled with sleep for the next few days actually, sleeping about 6pm and waking up around midnight, then on and off sleeping with pins and needles for the next 7 hours or so - none of which fits either English or Thai time. Maybe it was the malaria tablets, maybe it was the heat, who knows?
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| Excited to finally get off the plane! |
Bangkok is full on bat-shit crazy. So noisy, cars everywhere and people everywhere, with bikes and food vendors in between. Khao San road is like they thought, "Let's ramp this up a bit!". We turned the corner and literally stopped in our tracks. 'Woah' was all I could say. It's too much to take in at once. The noise level is incredible. Just one walk from one end to the other will get you offerings for a suit (why on Earth you would need a suit for backpacking, or even for Bangkok, is beyond me), several ping-pong shows (we asked where one was and the guy tried to lead us to a tuk-tuk saying "20 Baht, 20 Baht!!". No thank you! Never let them take you somewhere in a tuk-tuk for that sort of thing and never fall for the 10/20 Baht tuk-tuk scams. You'll end up in trouble. Always take a tuk-tuk or taxi to a place you would recognise and walk the rest of the way), bug delicacies, all sorts of random foods, clothes, and a whole lot of weird and wonderful tack.
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| Hill tribe friend! |
We
sat outside an abandoned building (that actually had a club inside
it) and listened to some guys play guitar and one of those boxes you
sit on and bang; they were pretty good actually, even if they did
miss out the bigger English words. Whilst sitting there, we must have
been approached by no less than 20 vendors, most of which are women
from the hill tribes selling little bracelets and such. I bought a
couple of bracelets and then this one lady picked up that Nick was
tipsy, shoved this ugly ass hat on his head and he happily bought it.
When he took it off, his face was just like, 'WTF is this?'. Creased
me up.
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| Nick and his happy hat. |
ENP and Chiang Mai soon! x
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