Moving on

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Taking the night train again, I went south, to Khao Sok national park, with Yurena. I booked the tickets for the train, bus and hostel, and around 23:40, we left the hostel, with the three of us: Brian was headed back to Bangkok, to find a hostel there and cross the Cambodian border the next day.

Yurena and me, we had a second class ticket for the 'sleep train', to Surat thani, about six hours to the south. It just turned out that the tickets I bought, however, were 'seated', meaning, we would not be in the comfortable cocoon of a sleeping berth, but in a 'reclining seat'. Also: the train was delayed a bit. When I asked 10m before it was supposed to arrive, if it would be on time, the clerk answered '15 or 20 minutes' .. One hour, 20m later and very sleepy, we were finally herded to the place where car 8, our car, would stop. Got on board and found a relatively comfortable position, next to the open window.

The train did not catch up with the schedule and when it finally arrived, we missed the connecting bus. Didn't really matter, though, the company was driving busses back and forth there all day, so we got on the next one, two hours later. That's Thai travelling for ya 😊

Made some new friends on the bus (from Scotland) and got to the hostel, where, yay! My booking had not come trough. Planning was a great skill of mine :p. Luckily, there was one bed left 😊 got some sleep, checked out the park and ate a local pizza, which was all right. Bit fat, no salt, strange choice of cheese and little tomato. Still good 😊

Tomorrow: overnight lake tour

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