The Arnoma Hotel Bangkok

When I first heard of this campsite, I was rather skeptical. What? Go camping in Bangkok?? Who's crazy enough to want to spend a night out at a campsite, feeding the mosquitoes and depriving oneself of a nice hot-water bath. Boy was I wrong when I got there. Farm Chokchai is not like your regular boy scout camp where you rough it out in the wild. The tour guide that accompanied us there told us that we would be camping out in the jungle with creepy crawlies under the tent. We were warned not ...

Met up at the Arnoma Hotel at 5:00 for a pretty expensive beer, then it was off to the canal boat Will had told us about that takes us really close to the ground. By the time we got near the canal it was absolutely peeing it down and the canal "station" was really busy, it was 2 hours later than Will had caught it the previous 2 times and was now peak hour. Made for a real adrenalin rush of a ride, these long boats (see attached pictures) with low rooflines and covers pulled up at the side ab...

Went to do some Tommy Tourist stuff down to Mae Nam Chao Phraya, the big brown river that runs through Bangkok, but didn't quite make it. Bumped into Will from Jabiru and his brother Gwyn from Adelaide, on the Skyrail - small world!! Decided we needed to talk football over a beer so went to the Hard Rock for an expensive beer before retreating to Soi Cowboy for some more reasonable priced beers and games of pool. Ended up staying for quite a while before visiting a few other bars, finding som...