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Trip Start Nov 15, 2008
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Trip End Feb 28, 2009


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Friday, December 19, 2008

It took a long tail, a mini-bus and 2 coaches to get from Don Det in Laos to Bangkok. Left at 11am on Thursday 18th and arrived at 4:30am at the bus station in Bangkok with with one Irish guy, an English girl, a Canadian girl and an Aussie guy I met on the bus. We got over to the Kohsan Rd and ate an early breakfast with a Singha to wash it down before finding somewhere to stay, a cell like hotel room, but only 400 Baht so it did fine for one night, apart from the rock hard bed but I'm used to that from my Bungalow in Laos. I wasn't looking forward to coming back to the intensity of Bangkok, I wanted to go straight to Australia, but in the end I had a really good day in the city. After a sleep, I visited the Grand Palace, which I hadn't been able to see in Bangkok the first time because of the Queen's sister's funeral. It was really beautiful, as well as gaudy and full of over the top idolatry, but fascinating to see all the different influences on royalty over the centuries.
After the Grand Palace I went to Wat Pho and had a Thai massage with herbs, it's the place that Thai massage was originally developed and it was great, they really lay into you, pushing and pulling you about on your pressure points. I tried to get a bus back to the Kohsan road but couldn't find it and in the end a tuk tuk driver was offering me a 10 Baht ride, plus one stop, which means that they take you to a family jewellery shop and try to get you to spend money. I laughed at him and in the end a friend of his gave me a lift back on the back of his moto. Zip...down the road and back to the hotel to change before a night of Thai whiskey and ginger buckets. 
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