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Published: March 2nd 2008
So, with China sadly behind us, we boarded our Thai Airways flight en route to Bangkok, saying goodbye to freezing temperatures and saying hello to tropical sunshine and humidity. Gotta love Thai Airways…a wardrobe change halfway through the flight for the crew, brilliant food and beverage service, and an orchid corsage for all of the ladies at the end of the flight…welcome to Bangkok.
This being our second time in Thailand, things weren’t as unknown as in China and we settled into position rather quickly. Our brief stay in Thailand is really meant to be a rest-up before digging into more serious trekking in Nepal, so, the agenda is predominately eat, eat, eat, wander, beach, beach, beach. We gorged on cheap Thai food, cheap fruit, drank litres of fresh juice (watermelon, orange, lemon, strawberry, pineapple, coconut), shopped for souvenirs and wandered around various districts. After working our way through the crowds, horn-honking, and aggressive hawkers in China, Bangkok actually felt relaxing, amazing, Bangkok as a relaxing city! I think the sudden rise in temperatures may have also played a role in helping us to take a deep breath and chill out. We didn’t bother doing the wats again, instead we
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STATISTICS
- Flights taken = 4
- Intercity trains rides taken = 7
- Intercity bus rides taken = 27
- Times lost = 7
- Total instances of diarrhea = 3
- Total number of requests for pictures with Daniel = 2
- Total megabytes of pictures taken = 10,340
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Yogesh
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It would have been nice if we happen to be in BKK at the same time. I can't believe we missed each other by a week