We have now landed in the more relaxing part of our trip, so unfortunately this blog has taken a bit of a backseat. Mainly because our days at the moment, are consisting of sunbathing on the amazing thai beaches and eating our body weight in carbs. So, here is an update finally as we are having an 'admin' day due to the storm here in koh samui.
We arrived in bangkok from Vientiane, Laos 3rd October. Our journey took 15 hours. We took a train across the friendship bridge into the thai border then a night train to Bangkok.
We stayed at D&D inn on koh san road for one night. We hoped to stay here for 3 nights but we had a bit of a mare as the only room available was street facing with a window. This resulted to a night with the Dj, drunken shouting and disco lights blazing through our window. We attempted a night out on koh san road in the hope that we would be too drunk/tired to notice the loudest nights sleep ever. But after 15hours of travelling, our age got the better of us and we had to endure the boom box bedroom. The next morning we checked into tranquility. A hotel on the road next to koh san. Such a good decision.
We had 3 days in bangkok...
Day 1: the plan was to get a taxi to MBK Shopping mall but whilst trying to hale a taxi, Cj became the ultimate tourist and agreed to do the temple run with a tuk tuk driver for 40 baht each We knew about the scams so we were dubious as to whether we'd actually see the temples. And yes, after seeing two temples, the tailor factory and several random 'tailor made' market shops (so the tuk tuk driver could get his petrol coupons) we got screwed over. The plan was to end our temple run at MBK where we originally wanted to go, but of course on the last temple sighting our driver did a runner and left us stranded. Luckily, we hadn't paid anything yet and we were only a few miles from MBK so we just walked and got the temple run for free.
We hit koh san road in the evening and ended up at 'the club'. The military curfew kicked in at 2:30am so we moved onto 'lava' club where that didn't close until 3am. It was a good night out which consisted of buckets, beers, dancing and scorpions. Oh yeah, Cj bought a fried scorpion on the street for us to eat. It wasn't that bad, just really salty and crispy.
Day 2: regretting our decision to go out the night before a 6am alarm, we made our way back to D&D inn at 7am to wait for our mini bus to the floating market. We stopped at the train market first, where the market moves out the way every time a train goes through the middle. You literally stand inches away from the train. The floating market was really good. One of the most cultural (as well as touristy) things we have done.
Day 3: we had a mare this day. We wanted to go to the top of sky bar where the hangover movie was filmed. We arrived at the entrance, only to be turned away because Cj was in shorts. Its about 1pm so it's probably empty. So, instead we walked around waiting until 7pm for our night train to surat suani. We then had problems with our train. The AC wasn't working in our carriage so just the last carriage had to get off and wait for the train people to fix it. We were left on the platform whilst the train drove off, no one knew what was happening, so we didn't know if we were even getting a train that night. Luckily after an hour the train reversed back into the platform with a new carriage and we continued our journey down south.
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