Day 167 Having organised a wake up call, Mark still had a bit of a restless night wondering whether we would be getting up in time. Up and ready we got down stairs for a quick Mama's Cup (noodles) for brekkie before being taken to our boat by the driver. The floating market was once the area where fruit and other colourful produce were sold between traders, however due to the intervention of tourism, this is not the sight that greets you today. Instead most of the colourful stalls and boats have been replaced with shops selling tourist tat, sold at massively inflated prices, and the riverways packed to the brim with camera touting tourists. However, our early start beating all of the tours from Bangkok, allowed us to get a brief glimpse of what it
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