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Day 43 - Hong Kong to Bangkok
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Not much to say about today as the flight was uneventful, and we arrived in HK at about 12pm with a few hours to kill in the airport before our 3pm connecting flight to Bangkok.
We had to go via Bangkok because we booked some cheap flights from BGK to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. It was cheaper to go to BGK and then PP rather than fly direct to PP from HK. Make sense ?! Good.
We had some nice Chinese food in the airport, and I had a very nice iced mango green tea, which was as tasty as it was random !
The Cathay Pacific flight to BGK was very good, much better than the awful experience we had in HCMC in Vietnam, thank God.
A few hours later we landed in BGK, and this time we decided to stay in Khao San Road, probably the most famous backpacking street in Asia, if not the world !
We knew it would be noisy and grubby but I was determined to stay there at least once, I don't think you can truly say that you've been backpacking in S.E. Asia until you've 'done' the Khao San Road...
As expected it was noisy, and grubby, and our "nicer than average" guesthouse suggested that the other guesthouses in the area must have been modelled on either London during the Black Death, or Guantanamo Bay.
As I kept telling Katie, "it's only for one night", and we managed to sleep quite well considering the air con unit sounded like listening to the Indy 500 from the pit lane.
Before we bedded down we popped out for a couple of cheeky Tigers (the beers not the animals) and a plate of chips which we didn't need but which Katie appeared to order automatically without ever processing it through her brain ?! Scary.
It was tipping down with rain all night, so we arrived in the bar soaked to the skin and left it in the same condition, but it was quite refreshing all told, even if it did prevent me getting a good photo outside.
We needed to get to the airport for about 3pm the next day so went to sleep at about 12am while the party continued in the bars all around us.
I woke up a couple of times, 3am and 5am, and it was still really noisy on the street, so it seems that this road never sleeps.
If we were 10 years younger I'm sure we'd have got stuck into the carnage, but we're obviously getting a bit too 'sensible' in our old age for all that, how depressing ;)
Love to you all,
Al & Katie xx
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