so after an ass numbing 6 hours bus journey from bangkok, finally arrived at the bordertown on arrany prathet, or how ever it's spelt. for some reason all the westerners on the coach got off, maybe they wanted the full experience of being mithered by the tuktuk drivers or they were so worked up waiting to be scammed that they didn't belive the driver who, bless him was trying to tell them in thai that the bus went all the way to the border market. So there was just me and one other passenger who stayed on and we drove on whilst i watched from the safety of the bus while the tuk tuk drivers decended on them and picked them off one by one.....the border is a strange place, you go through the thai end
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