So a crazy first day. Bangkok is certainly a long way off the sights and sounds of London. After checking into a nice hotel for 6.50 we had a plan in mind and started to walk around. 2 minutes later we had met an officer of the university who wrote down on a map loads of hidden gems, got us into a tuk tuk, bartered the price down to 1 pound for the whole day driving around and we were off. Our first stop was a beautiful temple which was completely deserted apart from one guy praying. Many of the temples have lots of tourists so this was great. This guy aksed if we had ever prayed to budda, and then showed us inside and how to do it. He spoke to us for ages. More
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