Saturday 23rd February 2008

Our alarm went off nice and early this morning and we were soon walking along the long road back to the highway. We didn't stop anywhere for any breakfast. Instead, we bought some cereal and some yoghurt from a 7Eleven and ate them out of the box as we waited for a bus. The bus turned up at 9.30ish and we were soon heading for Bangkok.

As we got closer to the city, the first thing I noticed was that the sky had gone a greyish colour (I guess from all the traffic). We were dropped off at a bus station just out of town before catching a local bus into the centre. We got off the bus and didn't have a clue where we were heading - but we knew when we'd got there... one minute we were surrounded by Thai people and then after turning the corner, we were surrounded by people carrying backpacks. We were on the Th Khao San road... backpacker-ville!

When we were in Hua Hin, we'd met an older couple from Ipswich, called Jim and Trish, and they recommended a nice place that we thought we'd check out. It was definitely worth it - it was more like a hotel, with a pool and everything. After settling in we went to get our bearings and almost immediately we fell in love with Bangkok - it is one crazy place! There are people EVERYWHERE, selling EVERYTHING! We found a nice little travel agents and managed to sort both our visas and flight tickets to Vietnam - so that's good, one less thing to worry about (not that we were ever worried (he he)). We also booked a mini-bus to take us West to a place called Kanchanaburi (where the Bridge on the River Kwai is) for tomorrow.

No matter which direction we headed in to go exploring, we always seemed to end up back on Th Khao San road, which suited us fine - it's brilliant. We ate off loads of the food stalls down there - filling up on the pita bread sandwiches, Pad Thai noodles and spring rolls. We spent a couple of hours wandering up and down, looking at all the stalls and even went in some tailors to try and find ourselves a suit each.

Yay, Bangkok is gonna be fuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnn!