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Published: January 1st 2013
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We made it to Bangkok! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! We emded up staying in Pai an extra two days as we couldnt bring ourselves to leave and got an hours flight which was sooo much better! Got a taxi to a hostel we had pre booked for three nights which is called KohSan Rainbow hostel and guest house... and you can literally see the main strip from off of the front balconys. When we arrived it was about midnight as our plane landed at 11pm so when we got out of the taxi we were instantly in the midst of the craziness of Koh San Road!! Dropped our stuff in the room (which is pretty grimy) and then headed straight for the strip. It was pretty crazy, loud music blaring our from every club so when you walk down the middle of the strip you can just hear a massive jumble of different songs.. carts filled with dead insects that drunken people were scoffing down taking videos of each other and just tonnes and tonnes of people, massage parlours, shops and cheap STRONG buckets everywhere. We decided we were going to just get one bucket eachas we were prety tired and
wanted to save ourselves for the next night but one bucket turned into a LOT of buckets and we were sitting next to a few English men and their thai brides whic kept getting bags full of crickets and a few scorpiond and eating them like it was pop corn!! :S One of the men saw me watching and asked if I would like to try a bit of scorpion and I did and it was suprisingly not too bad! It had quite nice seasoning on it hahaha. We also tried some cricket which wasnt too bad eaither, although the alcohol must have helped!!
Moved onto another bar where we met a few guys and they ended up getting two massive shishas and a huge beer tap and so we sat with them for a good few hours and byt the time I sobered up a bit I realised it was actually birhgt day lights and people wre walking along cleaning the street! haha! So much for one bucket!!!
The next day we were asleep until quite late as we hadnt gone to bed until nearly 8 so we had a lazy one and tried to recuperate for
the new years eve celebrations that night. Had a wander down Kohsan road and looked at all the clothes and I bought myself a dress to wear that night and Sean bought a new top. Our hostel is located over an indian restaraunt and we had heard the food was supposed to be amazing so we got our dinner there and it was really delicious which was good! Then we made our way to Central World in the center of Bangkok where all the Thai people go to celebrate. Got a Tuk Tuk which only cost a couple of pounds and when we arrived all the roads were cordened off by police and they had so much security around. Walked down the long road towards the main part and all the girls were wearing flashing minnie mouse ears or rabibit ears so I bought a pair to get into the mood! Just as we were buying them though, I heard this wierd music coming from next to the stand and saw the scariest person EVER!! I dont know whether it was a man or a woman, but it was wearing a wig I think and loads of the scariest makeup
Ive ever seen and playing an instrument and singing in the scariest voice ive ever heard!! When we got down to where the Central World shopping centre was there was a massive stage and so many people already around and we had about 4 hours to kill until midnight so we wandered around the massive shopping centre and watched somne of the performances on stage, but the singers were so teriible which was a bit annoying! We had about an hour to go until midnight and it was getting SO crowded and I was getting a bit stressed as evryone was pushing and shoving and people were getting pushed over in massive crowds and it was so humid that I was starting to just hate it so we went to McDonalds and just chilled in there until it was a bit closer to midnight.
At around quater too, we headed back out and everyone was pushing and shoving even worse so it was a bit of a battle to get to a good spot to see the fireworks but luckily we made it and waited for the countdown.... which never came :S
We expected to hear everyone counting
down from 10 in thai but nobody counted all of a sudden the fireworks just started going off haha. The display was absolutely amazing though, the biggest fireworks ive ever seen!! After the display everyone slowly made their way back to the exit and started grabbing Tuk Tuks. A crazy looking man pulled over to us and we told him where we wanted to go and I asked him how much it would be but he just kept grunitng and saying same same! I was like How much monety? and he just shouted SAME SAME again.. I was getting really annoyed but Sean just said get in so we did... OMG. I thought we were going to die the whole way home! He turned the music up really loud and had the worst road rage ive ever seen, going SO STUPIDLY FAST and shouting at beeping and I was ready to jump out when he next stopped but we would probably have had to walk all the way back then. Everyone in the other Tuk Tuks were being overtaken by us and were all looking at him like he was a mental case! At one point we went round a
roundabout SO FAST that we thought we were going to tip right over! I was so scared haha. Was so happy to get off that!! We then headed back out to Koh San road and partied the night away until the early hours of the morning :D
TODAY WE ARE GOING TO JUST HAVE A CHILLED ONE AND ARRANGE HOW WE ARE GOING TO GET TO PHUKET TOMORROW. I HAVE KIND OF HAD ENOUGH OF BANGKOK ALREADY, JUST WANT TO GET TO THE PARADISE ISLANDS NOW. I HAD TO WRITE THIS LAST BIT IN CAPITALS BECAUSE THE LANGUAGE ON THE KEYBOARD CHANGED TO THAI AND I HAVE NO IDEA TO CHANGE IT BACK TO ENGLISH, BUT FOR SOMEREASON WRITING IN CAPS LOCK SEEMS TO WORK. HAPPY NEW YEAREVERYONE ׂ I WILL ADD PICTURES LATER TODAY
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Hey sis and Sean,happy new year!! I was laughing so much about your stories of Bangkok, it is such a crazy place, but nice to get away from there too!! So you are now on my favourite island, I hope the weather holds out for you. I hope the big boxing bar is still there.. Can't think of the name just now, u can picture me in my Thai shorts pulverising the Thai girl ha ha!!! All is well here, still off work which is lovely. We go back on the 7th boo hop. I wish I was rich, I would be on the next plane to see you!! Sorry I'm not writing much, my computers broken and so is my 3phone so I am using dans for this. I am loving your blogs, I am always laughing so much it's brilliant. Bye for now sweet pea. Miss uuuuuuuu, big sis xxxxx