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),
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