After flying into Bangkok, we travelled down to the south of Thailand, this time deciding to take an overnight train instead yet another bus journey. We opted for second class, cheap yet cheerful and sufficient for us to pull our seat back and get some sleep. The trains are rather old, the passenger emergency signal still being a long chain that you had to pull. It was an enjoyably different travel experience, seeing the rail side scenery chug by with the night air washing through our carriage, as well as the seemingly constant stream of sellers getting on and off at stations as they pleased to walk the aisles to tempt you into buying there drinks and homemade snacks. After waking in the early morning to get off the train, only to get a local bus,
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