VS Guesthouse Bangkok

... curry which was ridiculously hot!

Friday was our first full day in Bangkok. We caught a sky train to the canal, where we got a tuk tuk, for 20p to a dock. We went on a boat tour with just us 3 on the boat around the canal to see all the sights - including the floating market and grand palace. We also stopped off at a snake farm which was a bit odd.. A few men were fight different poisnous snakes in a very low ring, with us just sitting a few feet away so could have been ...

... and far better than the ones at 'Super Rip-offs'. They had numbers on them (like shopping then) and my favourite was number 3.
Anyway, we moved on to another Go-Go and I observed the same formula. No poles, and the dancing mainly involves hips only, and has them looking a bit like gyrating dolls. Paul was on the case with a girl he took home the night before (it turns out) and Ron and I were just drunk. Girls came over and spoke to me, seeming to think once again that a ...

... were surprised when the first stop appeared to be more "Tourist Travel Agent" than "Shiny Incline" as Doe decided that he wanted to take us to buy some tickets for the next leg of our journey through Thailand first. He had taken us to the same place the day before and they had offered us various "deals" but after researching over night, we had decided they were a humongous rip off and not worth taking. We quickly told Doe this and it was relatively clear from the ...

... morning runs. At like 6:30am. Yeah, if you're his friends, be impressed folks. I am. And ya know what's REALLY erie? He LIKES them. I know right? Where's Rod Serling?
8) SO humid. SOOOOOOOO humid. Did I say that already?
9) Drivers here are batshit out of their gourds. The lanes and direction of traffic all seems to be a suggestion more than a rule or law. If driving on the left side of the road doesn't work for you, that's cool, ya know man? Just do what ...

... Sai cave presenting a lovely dry waterfall and many formations resembling various animals. For the night we parked at Laem Sala beach.
Next morning we plunged into the sea and also visited nearby Phraya Nakhon cave with a temple placed in the centre, spotting plenty of langurs outside. Nibbling local chicken sticks and sticky rice along the way we got to a town (don't know what its name was) on the ...

... for me.

I had been nursing a stomach ache all morning (and even into the afternoon) and the only cause I could think of was the green curry that I had eaten the night before. I eat spicy things often but I guess this was a little more than my stomach could take and I was still feeling the effects of it long afterward. I figured some plain rice or something else to cover it up might help so I headed over to May Kaidee's and got myself some brown rice ...

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... get out of bed. So the Golden reclining Budda was missed, as was a ferry down the river, the Royal Palace and whatever else I had planned. I just got ****** and hung out. More strung out. Maybe I'll try and see something next time I pass through, maybe not. I didn't even see the ping pong girls. The idea of some disgruntled old Thai ...

... for a few minutes then hit the bed for a much needed nights sleep and rest.

We had a leisurely morning this day. In the afternoon we went to the India Embassy to apply for a travel visa to India. We can pick up our visa's on 23 June.

This evening we went out to dinner then returned to Randy's condo for a restful evening and early to bed. We are slowly adjusting to the different time zone.

... the biggest in Thailand. At Wat Maharat there is a stone head of a Buddha enmeshed in the roots of a tree. Wat Rajpura was the most interesting and dates from 1424 and was built in memory of 2 brothers who killed each other in an elephant-backed duel. It has a 50' prang (tower) which contained a royal tomb. We walked up in it and then down these narrow steep ...