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Published: February 8th 2011
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The rail network in Bangkok is amazing! Alright, so I’m not very good at updating this thing daily, but today we got up at THE most un-Godly hour, 5:30am to catch our flight from Bangkok to Phuket. The flight was pleasant our baggage was not; my lock was broken, my Patron Tequila was smashed in Powers’ bag, her precious suitcase is now moist with Mexican liquor and Michael’s sunscreen imploded in his bag, causing his clothing to now have suspicious white marks on them. Ain’t it jizzy?
So day 2, 3 and 4 in Bangkok were quiet nice, Day 2 we went to the floating Markets and we got our haggeling on, I am now pleased to announce that Powers’ skills has improved immensely in this department! The floating Markets took almost 2 hours to get to, and the driver tortured us with Ronan Keatings greatest hits. As though that were not enough, my mate Billie and co. insisted we went to the River Kwai on our way home, followed by some cemetery! Now to me, this bridge we had walked over and spent almost an hour at resembled a baby version of the Woronora Bridge, back home in God’s Country! And walking around a cemetery taking photos
of dead Johnny’s and Joan’s grave stones in 30 degree heat, whom I do not know was also of the upmost stressful nature.
That same night we went out clubbing, A-mazing! Bangkok is such a night city, it never sleeps! I spent less than 300 baht, and it includes drinks, club entry and a cab ride home… that is about 12 Australian dollars! The only problem with the clubs were how crowded they were, I felt like I was 12 playing sardines again!
Day 3 was meant to be ‘Rami Day’ considering I was epically hungover but instead I agreed to stalk some temples with the Cox, Billie, Ricky and Matt! Our choice of transport was the TukTuk and we soon discovered that choosing to ride in a TukTuk means you’ll see more silk marts than anything else! (they stop you there to gain petrol vouchers from the stores, some weird way of advertising since I’m sure no tourist would actually purchase anything)! After visiting two, we were told we had to pay 100 baht and left in the middle of Siam! We refused to pay, squashed 5 people in a cab and now discovered not only do Thai drivers
choose what side of the road they feel like, but they like to drive in oncoming traffic lane as well, not to mention aggressive u-turns in the middle of a four lane freeway. After our ordeal we finally arrived at the Grand Temple to discover that the temple was to close in 1/2 an hour, and that we were inappropriately dressed in shorts and thongs! Because of this our next day at the Ayutthaya temples, the ancient ruins, we wore extreme gypsy pants and proper shirts with sensible walking shoes in ‘ROASTING’ Bangkok weather! I also met a baby elephant, whom I named Stampy, and fartered when I played with him! I road an old elephant too around the ruins, they had sad faces and the monk kept stabbing him with a sharp blade, it made me upset!
So I also went extreme shopping on my last day at Bangkok spent close to 850AUD, too much, now I’m budgeting ‘b-team’… we went to a Lady Boy show, so-so! Haha and finally Billie took us on a night rice barge; Bangkok glitters at night, probably because the pollution becomes hidden, but the smell becomes so awful at night it reminds me
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at the river markets of the Lucas Heights tip, Lexi is right, makes me home sick!!!
Time to explore Phuket now; the water is actually warm and tranquil… taking me immediately. Bye bye!
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