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Published: July 27th 2006
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Paul - Before we start my hair has been coming under fire rather more than I'd like. So I'd just like to say that no, Craig, it doesn't need a cut! And yes, Katie, I have "found" myself and the pre requisit beard will be coming along shortly!
Saturday 22nd July Laura - We checked out of our hotel and booked our bus to Sukhothai, an old town on the way back to Bangkok where there are a few ruined temples. Having nothing better to do until our bus journey we decided to go for (another!) massage. This time Paul was allowed to partake, his dodgy stomach finally being better.
The massage was heaven once again, especially on those parts that were sore after yesterday's rafting. Paul wasn't as enthused with his massage, but I think that's because it tickled him!
Paul - It was ridiculous. If I wanted someone to pin me down and tickle my feet, I'd have brought Michael with me on this trip.
Laura - The bus journey was a long 5 hours, and we arrived in Sukhothai at dinner time. There was a bit of a pantomime at the bus terminal
because we were being hounded by tuktuk drivers, trying to charge a fortune for the 2 mile ride into town. One of these tuktuks drivers was disabled and very drunk (he stank of alcohol). Not a good combination. Needless to say we did not get into his tuktuk. We eventually managed to find a taxi, which only ripped us off by twice the price it should have been...
The taxi driver took us to a guesthouse which looked very nice. Unfortunately it was closed down. Lonely Planet wastes our time once more!! We eventually found a guesthouse, which was open for business and settled down into our very big, very odd, very scary room. This room was the most bizarre room we've seen so far on our travels. It had in it a large four poster iron bed (with wooden planks supporting the mattress, and a dusty net curtain hanging above the headboard), 4 single beds (which were numbered but not placed in order) and lots of random dusty pieces of furniture. There were approximately 20 windows in the room also, closed by wooden shutters. To finish off the lovely decor of the room there was a fine covering
of spider's webs (and gangly spiders) on the ceiling. What a fine room it was!! We calculated, that if you counted the double bed as being 2 beds, we had an average of 2 beds each. My initial instinct was to claim the 4 poster bed, but after sitting back and looking at it for a while we decided that it looked like something out of a horror film, and that put me off slightly!! I didn't get to sleep very easily because I was thinking of the spiders and 'horror bed'.
Sunday 23rd July Paul - Got up and said goodbye to the room straight from a horror film. In the middle of the night Holmsey thought he saw a light coming from the bottom. Unfortunately it was just the light outside. Laura ripped the piss for a bit until Holmsey told her that there was a huge spider under her bed and GOODNIGHT!
Right so we got up and headed off to Sukhothai historical park. Caught a red taxi van there and hired some bikes from the bike place. It's a really pretty little place to cycle around with lovely ponds dotted around all the
ruins. Headed to the main ruin first which was quite impressive. Even after Angkor Wat and its surroundings I'm still impressed by different ruins. They all seem to have something special and unique about them.
What made Sukhothai so good was a really cool Buddha that was housed inside a cave that could only be accessed through a small slit in the rock. It's kind of difficult to explain, hence the photo, but it was very impressive. When you stood in front of the Buddha, which was 15 metres high, you could fully appreciate how big it was.
So we were casually biking around the park, minding our own business when guess what came out of the bushes to break this silence? A bloody massive snake!! It was seriously about 3 metres long! Ridiculous! Don't people realise these things are dangerous? Fancy letting them loose around a park set in the jungle! What a joke! If this was England then "Claims Direct" would be having a field day. Obviously for the rest of the day anytime we went in the grass everyone danced across it as fast as they could, apparently snake bites are bad for you.
Then, just to rub it in, as we were about to have lunch in a restaurant ANOTHER snake appeared. It's like we have some sort of snake homing device. This one looked like a baby one but it was still a metre long! Ridiculous! Our waitress was slightly less scared and pulled out a jug of water and threw it on the snake! Outrageous! Animal Rights will be all over her after they've read this!
After biking round the rest of the ruins (without any snake excitement) we gave our bikes back and got another red taxi van back to our hotel where we'd left our bags. A pretty dull evening where we played cards and waited for our bus at half 10 to take us back to Bangkok. Amusingly the bus apparently entailed a free meal if we payed a bit extra. Intrigued by this we all did. It turned out to be a coke and some rice soup! Bonus! Even better, the bus stopped at half one in the morning for this meal. I'm telling you, if there's ever a time for a free meal it's at half one in the morning.
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