The flights were pretty traumatic as we didn't sleep due to noisy airports, short flights with stops and lots of feeding going on and the suddenly being plopped into a different country after a long journey, no sleep and my what a city! Bangkok is big and a serious culture shock after India. Everything is pretty clean, roads with pavements, taxis in every colour of the rainbow, air con buses, big elegant buildings everywhere, people who pretty much ignore you appart from to smile at you and even the rickshaw/tut tuts look like they've been on pimp my ride. I think this is going to be a big welcomed change of scenery! We got a bus to the Khao san road, but got a shock as it was serious tourist central, basically rammed in every inch
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