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bangkok is so f-bomb hectic, i'm so glad we're staying in a nice cosy backstreet away from the hussle and bussle. at the end of every day, we ITCH to get back to the hotel just to sit in peace and quite for like 5 minutes until we get bored.
on Friday we had another day riding around tuk-tuks, but it wasn't nearly as cheap as the day before as the 10 baht (45c) day rides are generally just scams to get you to buy suits and jewellry. Which we fell for! But it's all good, we had our final fitting for our clothes last night (he even came to our hostel to do it) and i'm so in love with my suit it's like not even funny. So on Friday we had our appointment at the tailor for our second fitting, before hitting up china town which was the most crazy and intence and dare I say HECTIC (I hate myself) experience ever. Not really that bad, i'm heaps embellashing, but we all felt majorly uncomfortable because it was so busy, and there we're hardly any westerners there and no one spoke english. We managed, after lots of searching, to locate the cheap burned DVD's but didn't pick up anything yet as I think i'll be able to get them cheaper in Ho Chin Min City. I plan to get Gossip Girl and all of the Hills and possible the OC and I even saw Project Runway. One minute you are in, the next you are OUUUTT!!
So after we escaped China Town relativley unscathed (Breezy was so hot and shitty, she hated it the worst, and me and jess kept asking for DVD's and all poor Breezy wanted to do was get out of there), we tuk-tuk'ed it to the Grand Palace which had just closed. We met the craziest tuk-tuk driver in the process of trying to get there who found it incredibly funny that we couldn't speak his language and that he didn't understand what we we're saying. We we're all standing on the streets of Bangkok in stitches, tears rolling down our face, including the tuk-tuk driver, everyone was looking at us. It was amazing and came at just the right time. When we got to the Grand Palace and found it was closed we realised that we wouldn't have been able to go in anyway as we weren't wearing the right clothes. We managed to catch a peek of the princess coming in though. There were heaps of guards and people standing around. I got asked not to film it and to take my sunnies off.
We finally made it to Ko San Road after a bit of a siesta back at the hostel, and realised just how much of a one stop shop it was - we'd been everywhere in Bangkok BUT Ko San to find everything, but Ko San had clothes, DVD's, food, drinks.. pretty cool. We had dinner in a pretty call pub looking place playing heaps of Australian music and then proceeded to get rather drunk (well, me anyway) from the mini-bar's along Ko San. You basically sit on the footpath on plastic chairs and they come serve you, it's pretty cool. The rest of the night was a bit of an adventure which turned out pretty well =)
Yesterday morning, after 4 and a half hours sleep, we got up to be picked up by a bus at our Hostel at 7am to take us Elephant Trekking. 3 hours out of Bangkok. We listed a cemetry and museam related to Thailand's involvment in World War 2 (Breezy loved it, she loves war hardcore). Before the trekking we had an organised lunch on a floating resturant by the river before going rafting and bamboo canooing down the river which was so pristine. The trekking was great, but scary and i felt a bit sad for the elephants. They blow shit out of their trunks though, and one of the drivers got all this GUNK in his face, it was such a priceless moment. We then went to this great waterful and watched all these thai kids playing. It would be so much fun to hang out there if you were a country thai kid. It was like a jungle land, with heaps of people picnicing.
We met some cool girls from New York who we hung out with for the day, then said goodbye after the 3 hour bus ride back to Bangkok. We had some dinner near Ko San in a resturant called 'Sarah's' (chosen deliberately) before a spot of shopping in Koh San (i got some undie wundies). Headed home early as it had been a long day.
The weather is not that bad. Gets a bit much when your in the heat all day but we have the chance to escape into the air con every now and then so it's fine. It's the cool-dry season, so no monsoons or anything, its generally just mid thirties, cloud cover. Very bareable, not nearly as bad as Adelaide sounds right now.
Sorry about all the spelling mistakes. No time to fix.
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on Friday we had another day riding around tuk-tuks, but it wasn't nearly as cheap as the day before as the 10 baht (45c) day rides are generally just scams to get you to buy suits and jewellry. Which we fell for! But it's all good, we had our final fitting for our clothes last night (he even came to our hostel to do it) and i'm so in love with my suit it's like not even funny. So on Friday we had our appointment at the tailor for our second fitting, before hitting up china town which was the most crazy and intence and dare I say HECTIC (I hate myself) experience ever. Not really that bad, i'm heaps embellashing, but we all felt majorly uncomfortable because it was so busy, and there we're hardly any westerners there and no one spoke english. We managed, after lots of searching, to locate the cheap burned DVD's but didn't pick up anything yet as I think i'll be able to get them cheaper in Ho Chin Min City. I plan to get Gossip Girl and all of the Hills and possible the OC and I even saw Project Runway. One minute you are in, the next you are OUUUTT!!
So after we escaped China Town relativley unscathed (Breezy was so hot and shitty, she hated it the worst, and me and jess kept asking for DVD's and all poor Breezy wanted to do was get out of there), we tuk-tuk'ed it to the Grand Palace which had just closed. We met the craziest tuk-tuk driver in the process of trying to get there who found it incredibly funny that we couldn't speak his language and that he didn't understand what we we're saying. We we're all standing on the streets of Bangkok in stitches, tears rolling down our face, including the tuk-tuk driver, everyone was looking at us. It was amazing and came at just the right time. When we got to the Grand Palace and found it was closed we realised that we wouldn't have been able to go in anyway as we weren't wearing the right clothes. We managed to catch a peek of the princess coming in though. There were heaps of guards and people standing around. I got asked not to film it and to take my sunnies off.
We finally made it to Ko San Road after a bit of a siesta back at the hostel, and realised just how much of a one stop shop it was - we'd been everywhere in Bangkok BUT Ko San to find everything, but Ko San had clothes, DVD's, food, drinks.. pretty cool. We had dinner in a pretty call pub looking place playing heaps of Australian music and then proceeded to get rather drunk (well, me anyway) from the mini-bar's along Ko San. You basically sit on the footpath on plastic chairs and they come serve you, it's pretty cool. The rest of the night was a bit of an adventure which turned out pretty well =)
Yesterday morning, after 4 and a half hours sleep, we got up to be picked up by a bus at our Hostel at 7am to take us Elephant Trekking. 3 hours out of Bangkok. We listed a cemetry and museam related to Thailand's involvment in World War 2 (Breezy loved it, she loves war hardcore). Before the trekking we had an organised lunch on a floating resturant by the river before going rafting and bamboo canooing down the river which was so pristine. The trekking was great, but scary and i felt a bit sad for the elephants. They blow shit out of their trunks though, and one of the drivers got all this GUNK in his face, it was such a priceless moment. We then went to this great waterful and watched all these thai kids playing. It would be so much fun to hang out there if you were a country thai kid. It was like a jungle land, with heaps of people picnicing.
We met some cool girls from New York who we hung out with for the day, then said goodbye after the 3 hour bus ride back to Bangkok. We had some dinner near Ko San in a resturant called 'Sarah's' (chosen deliberately) before a spot of shopping in Koh San (i got some undie wundies). Headed home early as it had been a long day.
The weather is not that bad. Gets a bit much when your in the heat all day but we have the chance to escape into the air con every now and then so it's fine. It's the cool-dry season, so no monsoons or anything, its generally just mid thirties, cloud cover. Very bareable, not nearly as bad as Adelaide sounds right now.
Sorry about all the spelling mistakes. No time to fix.
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