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Published: February 3rd 2009
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well !!! where do i start ..... i cut across country to Ayutthia and had about 5 hours there so i did a quick minibus tour around the city that took us (me and a german couple) to the temple ruins that were all lit up as it was night time, i payed my respects to the budda and the king - and for 20p got a good luck lotus flower of a gypsy lady ! them the adventure began ........
the overnight train was meant to leave at 9pm and arrive 12 hours later in Chiang mai , i met Tim and Wendy the canadian couple that i went to the waterfalls with in hte train station their train was due to leave at 11.30pm .
Sure enuff a train came to the platform at 9pm so i picked up my bags and went to get on, and being the sensible girl i am i asked a guard if it was my train , No he said its the next one " you sit over there dont move, I look after you ! " and look after me he did .................
he told me it was going
to be 9.20pm
then he told me it was 9.45om
then 10pm
and finally he said "you go and wait over there ... train come 10.15pm" .... and so it did
and the man came and turned my seat into a lower bunk at it was bed time !!! .... the air con was in super turbo ....it was freezing (see i do empathise with you all freezing your bits off) the train was rocking from side to side and up and down it was like a mini roller coaster !! and the mozzies were nibbling my feet .... but other than that it was a fabulous night !! then it was 8am ..... i know this as my alarm on my mobile is set to talking alarm and the very helpfull lady kept on repeating "its 8am time to get up' the problem was the phone was locked in my backpack !!! ad it was really difficult to get to it ! ............ she lost the will to live after 8.30 , thank god !!!!
so we were due to get there at about 10.30 am .............. and we arrived at 2.30pm !!!! Thai time i
call it
but dispite it all i'm glad i did it as i got talking to some great people and there is a great atmosphere in hte train ......... plus you get to pee in squat toilets . what more could a girl ask for !!!
However i have already bookd my flight for the retrun journey .... it takes 1 whole hour !!!!!
so i cruised around about with a really sweet but clueless tuk tuk driver looking for somewhere to stay and settled on hte 4th place ... its called Jacky place and the staff are really really sweet and ever so helpfull ..... June (a guy) has sorted me out wiht a map and suggested lots of places for me to visit on foot and ive just booked a 2 day 1 night trek to visit Tribes people and stay over night wiht them, thats the day after tomorrow .And he said that i dont pay for my room while i'm away overnight - bargain i say !!!
so now i smell sweeter than when i arrived and ive had fried rice i'm off to go to the flowere and night market as per Junes recommendations .... i need to buy thick socks for my trek !!!!
thank you all soooo much for my messages its lovey to see them when i log on ..... i miss you all (but not being in work)
Joanne - i thik the reason our phones not working is vicki has taken the main plug out of hte wall by the tall lamp next to the sofa , tell her to put it back and it should work .... OR shes taken the phones away from their holders and theyve lost battery !!
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my mum the tribe lady
heya mummy!! First of all....who is the guy in the bed above you ??!(well i presume that wasn't YOUR bed!.... heehee!!) the train sounds fab. i love how you are just travelling around and booking things as you go along, brilliant!! So tell me... how was the squat toilet??.....it's good exercise you know....you'll have muscely thighs before you know it! Where do you sleep at the tribe place??.... that sounds amazing!! you never know..... you could find 'him' there....go for the guy with the biggest ...ahem.....hut!! heehee. enjoy the rest of your day (or probably night now) love you lots xxx