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Published: February 15th 2010
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We decided to head to the "buri's".
First we got the train to Lopburi - again ridiculously cheap; this is home to hundreds if not thousands of macaques. They are everywhere! It took us a while to spot one - which Craig spotted the first, then you couldn't walk a few feet without spotting loads. They are climbing on the buildings, on the cables above your head and on top of cars!
You cant eat or drink on the street or they will take it from you..they are very greedy! Some of the locals have big sticks or catapults to keep the nasty ones away! We only spent one day there, as its a small place with not much to do. We visited a few Wat (temples) including the monkey temple. You can buy fruit and a lady in the temple gave us seeds to feed the monkeys, they get well fed!
A lady at the temple gave us some sunflower seeds so we fed them out of our hands through the bars from the inside of the temple (the monkeys aren't allowed inside the temple). I also got attacked my one which was quite funny...it only went for my leg
though!
We couldnt decide where to go after Lopburi - it was between Kanchanaburi and Sukhothai, so we just rolled up at the train station to see what was what - what would be cheaper? Is the journey ridiculously long? etc etc. It turned out the train to Pitsanulok (which would have gotten us close to Sukhothai) was delayed by about 2 hours and would have taken quite a long time to get there, so that made our decision! To go to Kanchanaburi by train we had to go back to Bangkok AGAIN! It was a short 1 night stopover but we managed to have a bit of a spending spree, Craig got 2 tshirts and a pair of flip flops, and I got a top, ankle bracelet and a pair of sandals! (it did only cost about £20 for all that) We have to stop adding to our backpacks because they are just getting ridiculously heavy! The next day we got the train to Kanchanaburi, about 3 hours west of Bangkok and is where the bridge over the river kwai is. We spent a few days here, found an ok bungalow next to the river - we had 4
rather large spiders living in our bathroom right above the toilet which I wasnt particularly up for!
We cylclyed to the bridge and walked over it and cycled around the countryside for a bit, the view was gorgeous but it was soooo hot!
On the night we went for food and drinks and ended up talking to a bunch of Thai guys (again!), and also 2 Dutch girls. One of the Dutch girls told us she shit herself on a bus! Had a great night.
We rented a motorbike one day and drove to Erewan national park where there were some amazing waterfalls! The scenery along the way was gorgeous aswell. The water was blue and full of hundreds of fish that eat the dead skin off your feet (there are places all over in Thailand where you pay to do this and stick your feet in a tank full of fish). As soon as you put your feet in, the fish are attracted to you...its a weird feeling! The little ones are ok and it just tickles but some of the fish were about a foot long!
I was scared to go in the water incase they all started
nibbling me but Craig was straight in. I eventually dived in after he threatened to push me!
Again we couldnt really decide where to go next so we have decided to head for the south so we can enjoy the month we have left on our visa to enjoy the islands and beaches! (Yes I would be jealous if I were you too!)
We are starting to get brave and decided to get a local bus to Petchaburi. Its much cheaper than getting a tour bus an definetely more fun! We arrived at the bus station and people are so keen to help you; asking "where you go?", and then pointing us in the right direction for our bus. We had to change buses in Ratchaburi, which was easier than we thought to find our next bus. The driver was a nutcase, he had a water bottle filled with a drink that suspiciously looked like whiskey! and was more interested in eating his monkey nuts that concentrating on driving, but we arrived there in one peace after a bit of a white knuckle ride!
We got to Petchaburi and found no taxi's to take us to our guesthouse so after
walking the streets in the red hot sun with our backpacks, we stopped and sat down and a women gave us a bottle of water each and tried to point us in the right direction. We tried to give her some money for the water but she said it was " a gift", bless.
Anyway, when we eventually found our guesthouse, the 2 dutch girls who we drank with in Kanchanaburi were there but they didnt really speak to us...I think it might have something to do with the fact that she tod us she shit herself on a bus.
We were shown to our room which was definetely the worst yet! 2 beds with solid mattresses and 1 had a mosquito net with huge holes in! It looked a bit like a shed and was covered in mosquitos because we were right on the river. We went to the 7-eleven to get some tape and Craig taped up the mosquito net and we both squished in a tiny single bed for the night! Plus the shared bathrooms were disguisting and had loads of spiders and cockroaches. We left the next morning!
Went to Cha-am for a few days,
not much to say. Had a few days on the beach and it was packed with old scandanavians, we were probabaly the youngest people there.
SOME OF THE PHOTOS HAVE GONE ON TWICE BUT I CANT BE BOTHERED TO TAKE THEM OFF!
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janet
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Hi you lucky pair, Jenny you have the cutest cat back here Bailey, the blog is going great what a whole lot of memories for your old age, i am so jeal's well not jeal's but envious, can't wait untill it's our turn, (get there b 4 u Brad sorry) make the most of your time left and enjoy every minute of it, love and miss you both take care, hope you eventually got to swim with the sharks. talk soon love from all of us here in misrable cold wet even freez'n England.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx