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Goodbye Delhi and hello Thailand!
And so we headed out of India in a taxi, where halfway down the road, a stranger decided to jump into the passenger seat at the front of the car. We had no idea who this man was, but apparently the driver knew him so all was well! We have noticed that everybody greets us with 'yes please' whenever we go into a restaurant or shop. Even when we indicate that we want something, the response is 'Yes Please!" We are not sure how this phrase works but it has left us with a few laughs and is one of the memories we will have of India ha!
Flight to Thailand was uneventful-although I (tszwai) did not enjoy the tight spaces-air India certainly isn't virgin airways and we thought we were back in the eighties! :S We landed safely and took a airport express bus to Bangkok's main train station. We met a nice guy from Manchester on the bus-he has a house in the south of Thailand and gave us some pretty good tips for our first crucial hours here! We located the left luggage service within the station and by this time,
it was still early morning and the nearest place we could find to fill our hungry bellies was a KFC! Haha! Not quite what we had in mind for our first meal in Thailand, but most restaurants don't open up till later in the day-nearing midday! We should adopt this culture-means better lie-ins! :P On our way into the train station, a Thai girl stopped us to see if we wanted any help-she was working for the Thai tourism association but having experienced India (where anyone that talks to you only has money on their mind) we were ready to tell her to go away. However, I we decided to see what she had to say and in fact, she was really helpful (she pointed us towards the KFC!) and was genuine about wanting to help us. She also recommended a shopping centre for us to chill for the rest of the day before getting on our overnight train to Chiang Mai.
The shopping centre turned out to be about 4 centres joined together by walkways etc and all were filled with shops, people and most importantly, AC! We couldn't stop looking at all the stuff to buy-it took
a lot of will power to prevent excessive amounts of unnecessary spending in this place! We stopped off for our first lunch in Thailand and having been in India and not really adapting to their food, we were really looking forward to this meal and prepared to eat a feast. As it turns out, our stomachs have shrunk considerably and a good thing too because the portions seem to be quite small here. (A great way to loose the weight haha!)
We then headed back to the train station where Delhi belly appeared again (no it has not gone away) and the toilets at the station were not ideal 😞 Nevertheless, it had to do as we had a whole night on a train ahead of us. They also have showers at the station-something I am considering using as when traveling back south, I don't want to go another two days without having a shower!
On the train, a granny sat in the seat opposite us-she was so cute and dressed all in white. She tried to put her basket on a shelf that was on the roof of the train carriage-Chris ended up giving her a hand
and she gave us a grateful nod. However, granny remained active throughout the night and did not rest as she was too busy re-organising her bags and playing with string! Sooooooooooooo cute. Eventually, she called it a night but was up again at the crack of dawn! We were also attacked by a bug as we settled onto the train :P It was just crawling on the floor and wasn't too big, yet it was enough to send Chris and I flying off our seats trying to get away from it :P Needless to say, we were on the look out for bugs for the rest of the journey. The seats were pretty comfy and turned into beds at night. Our bags came to bed with us as we were afraid that the bugs would take them away if we left them on the floor! It was a peaceful night on the train and surprisingly a fairly good sleep. However, we were still in desperate need of a shower! Yuck! Apparently, it was also quite surreal having a pee at night, whilst looking out of the window to see lights and temples (wats) zipping past. (Have to ask Chris about
that one! lol!) Chris slept in the top bunk and kept waking up, just in case granny had tied him up during the night with her string!
Will have more stories when in Chiang Mai!!!
Tsz Wai & Chris
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