Gemmas Journey

Day 3: Our alarm was set for 8AM however Becca slept through it, i'm just glad it wasnt me, we were lucky as our bus came back for us. After a two hour journey from Bangkok we rrived at 'Sams Guesthouse', it was a bit of a slum floating on a river but we knew we could handle it. After settling into our room we visited the Bridge over the River Kwai, it was pretty cool, we then had an early night. Day 4: We were picked up at 8AM and headed to the Erawan Waterfalls. There were seven different stages to which we climbed up, at the top of the waterfalls stages 3 and 4 were lovely. On our way up the waterfalls we came across a few monkeys, me being naive tried to get ... read more

Bangkok- 16th February The morning was eventful, at about 4am Becca and I had our first arguement of the trip but it was settled immediately. After waking up with horrible hangovers Lucy, Lena, Becca and I heading out for breakfast, i couldn't even stomach a yogurt, messy isn't even the word! 'Le Club' was certainly not expecting us Pembroke girls and our Welsh flag. As Lena Lucy and Meg were flying to Australia that afternoon we said our goodbyes then becca and I headed out to explore Bangkok. Throughout the day our tuk-tuk driver took us to a number of beautiful temples, and surprisingly a couple of suit shops! (yes you read correctly). Our tuk-tuk driver drove us around Bangkok for around 50baht each, ( about one quid) we thought this was a bargain until we ... read more

Day 1= 15th February: Bankgkok After a long journey we finally arrived in Bangkok. After picking up our bags we made our way out of the airport. The stuffy and polluted air just hit our lungs, I wasnt expecting that much of a drastic change! The first person we met outside of the airport stopped us on the street and asked us where we were heading and warned us not to go into Central Bangkok because of the bombs the night previous. Not a very delightful greeting for us considering we just arrived, we were so scared! Anyway, after getting persuaded to pay over 165 quid on trips we finally got to our hostel "Nap park' where we met Lucy, Lena and Meg. Pretty sure the whole of the hostel heard our screams of excitement when ... read more