Navarat Hotel Kamphaeng Phet

... town and took off for the historical park! It was quite an enchanting place! The ruins are in a forested area, so although they are not as well preserved as the ones in Ayutthaya, the combination of the late afternoon sunlight through the trees, and the total absence of anyone else made it quite surreal! Around 5 o'clock it started to fill up with locals jogging...it was pretty funny. I then headed back to the guesthouse, but in typical Myriam fashion, I got lost and ...

... into the town we realized that with no map finding a guesthouse was going to be difficult. But wait! A small car suddenly pulled beside us with two people asking us if we needed help. There was a nice Thai woman and a white man in the car and they offered us a ride to a guesthouse. I gave Alon a look to see if he felt okay about this and he reassured me that he had a good feeling about these ...

... beside Thailand's only sumo wrestler. I never caught his name, but for the moment, let's just call him Jabba the Hutt. Jabba had the tendency to move (roll) in his sleep, unfortunately on to me, trapping my left arm, or the whole left flank of my body under his mass and preventing any further flow of blood through my body. A soft tap, as a sign of submission, was usually enough, to get me unlevered, but ...

... wich bit me. Finally slept for 2 hours in a couch, before heading to north to Kamphaeng Phet first visited the ruined historic old temples in town. The heat was almost unbearable... Completely overtired to be looking for a place to sleep in Kamphaeng Phet a young local girl guided me to a kind Bungalow- Motel - with air-con, cable TV and everything brandnew. Finally sleep!!

... took us down to the local football pitch, where there were 20 or so Thais ranging from 13 to about 30. They wanted us to play, so I pulled on my Palace shirt and set about resurrecting my playing career. I put ion a few big tackles and a few last-gasp blocks, which impressed a few of them. At the other end Ross netted two wonder goals. Thailand was getting a schooling from England basically.. that was until we had played about 45 minutes in 30 ...

... owner of the guesthouse offered to take me to his home in the mountains west of town. I took him up on it and was glad I did. His country home is about 30 km west of town, right on the edge of Khlong Wang Chao National Park. His property there might have more flowers than I've seen in the rest of Thailand over the past five days. Quite a stunning setting, but don't take my word for it, check out the pictures (especially on Flickr). After a few ...

M: We had this absolutely fantastic plan that we would arrive in Bangkok around 5PM, hang out, get something to eat, go to see a movie and then get on an overnight bus to Sukhothai. We were really excited about how well it would work to get in first thing in the morning, not have to pay for lodging for a night, etc. So, we went to a very cheesy, but safe Thai food chain (think TGIFriday's). It was really funny. Really ...

... He has a daughter that attends the local government school. His shop is in a central location and many people can easily meet and talk to him when they come for shopping. When we arrived Panya asked us to sit down and have a beer. We did. He brought us some snacks. As we got half way through the snacks he brought us some more. As we got half way through the beer he brought us more. And so the afternoon went on for quite some time. Eventually we couldn't even get ...

Today we visited the Tiger Temple, the home of 12 wild tigers. They live with some Buddist Monks in a Temple in Saiyok. The Monks have a unique and special relationship with the tigers. One of the Monks takes you by the hand and leads you over to the tigers where you can pet them ...

... We returned from the trek refreshed and stayed in Chiang Mai for a bit longer before returning to Bangkok. We took a 12 hour train back to Bangkok, and were quickly reminded why we left it in the first place. And so we decided to leave. After getting to the main North bus station, we decided to change direction and go south. Our indecisiveness took us through a number of local buses, which provided for some funny expereinces... We ...