Of course your dieing with excitement to hear about Thailand but first before divulging those exciting tales there's a few things I've previously forgotten to mention. Firstly, for those who know Bill will also know of his vast collection of about 15-20 bracelets on both arms, some are more classy than others, I'm pretty sure ones made from the plastic ties from a joint of pork. Anyway in the eyes of India it turns out Bills a bit of a stud as the bracelets in India signify a gift from a sexual conquest, so there was a whole torrent of comments from tour guides, hotel owners and rickshaw drivers congratulating Bill on his talent in getting the opposite sex into bed, Bill wishes. And also we went white water rafting in Nepal and in horrific monsoon rains which caused a landslide which in turn took a lorry over the cliff top road in the river behind us. The river swept the lorry and its contents (packets of dried noodles) past us down the river just minutes after we came shore. I turned and said to Bill that i hope the driver got out before the lorry was swept in, in contrast a group of Nepalese girls in front of us were cursing the loss of 'good noodles' to the river.
Anyways back to the more recent From Nepal we flew to bangkok but via singapore so we had 12 hours to kill in singapore airport between flights. Not greatly looking forward to the wait we asked a australian couple in front of us and our excitement for the wait was no hieghtened for the response of its ok i guess. However on a arrival the airport was a sensory overload. The airport had several indoor gardens ranging from a ferns orchids and sunflowers complete with koi karp ponds,free cinema, a gym,free television, and about 30 diffferent restaurants, needless to say the 12 hours flew and i got to watch the David Haye fight so that was a bonus.
We had been heavily recommend by other travellers in Nepal to stay on a road in Bangkok call Khoa San road so we headed there on arrival into Bangkok. Now after Nepal this road seemed Chaotic and worse of all tacky as hell. Its a road that is lined with useless trinekts, fake t-shirts and happy hour bars. It in essence is the asian cousin of a Magaluf. It sounds a tad hypocritical as im well known for like a drink or ten but this was not what i had in mind when i traveled half way around the world. So we escaped the hordes of English drunks for something somewhat more traditional a city in the north called Chang-Mai. Chaing Mai was exactly what we were after it was a quieter than Bangkok and filled with other backpackers not people on a drinking tour of Bangkok.we went and watched some traditional Muay Thai boxing fights which akwardly had Ladyboy bouncers on the door which was a special sight! And then are other two days were spent on a jungle trek to an elephant camp, where you got to ride the elephants and feed them at night you slept in an open air hut with mosquito nets so that was pretty cool experience. The second day was rather wet as it was filled with yet more white water rafting and a visit to a 20ft waterfall which doubled up as a rather painful slide into the plungepool below. We left that night at 7pm on a 12 hour sleeper bus back to Bangkok and in our eagerness to avoid Khoa San road we were on a bus to Siem Reap, Cambodia but 8am the next day. The reason for the 3day visit to Cambodia was to see our last temple of the trip ( i hope! After India,Nepal and Bangkok I had a severe case of Temple overload fever) so we though we'd finish on a high as Angkor Wat is one of wonder of the world it was also we wanted to see where tomb raider was set. After the disappoint of Sunrise at the Taj Mahal we were up and in a tuk-tuk at 04.30am to see Angkor Wat illuminated in the suns early morning glow only to find it was so overcast there was no sunrise just more of a gradually lightening which you were blissfully unaware of so before we knew it was daylight and we'd see no sun. Yet again I'd some how been tricked by the sun. Angkor Wat is one main temple surrounded in a vast wooded areas of about 70 other temples ( i could the temple fever edging its way in again after noon) but at least unlike all the domed roofs of Indian temples and all thee gold dragons in Thailand they were more rustic and unique, with trees growing through the walls and decrepit ruins which made it interesting. As mentioned one of the temples was used in one Tomb Raider films so the day was spent eagerly anticipating this temple only to find neither me, Bill or our two new Portuguese Friends we were temple hopping with could even remember a single scene from the film, so our excitement was somewhat ebbing away after the 20th question of do you recognize this building. After our 4am we made it home by 3pm (eleven hours of temple fever) pleased with the knowledge there would be no more temples and there was a bed waiting for us (Bill nearly fell out the tuk tuk asleep on the way home, only to save his balance last minute.)
And that takes up today which has been spent recusing Bill's Ipod from death. On just the second day both my Iphone and Bills Ipod were wiped out as a bottle of Beer Exploded in my bag leaving a two inch pool of beer at the bottom so up till now has been musicless. This was the first chance to repair it as in India you were lucky to have electricity letalone a shop capable of fixing Ipod. Luckily saving myself 150 quid Bill ipod was repairable for 15 dollars and they gave him new music far better than his old music collection (which to be fair wasn't hard, some of the highlights were Pink and Justin Bieber) and were now currently waiting for a night bus back to Bangkok as were Prepare or our assault on the Southern Islands and the Infamous Full Moon Party ( and i was complaining about hordes of English drinking excessively in Bangkok right, Definite hypocrite, HA!)
Peace!
(photos will follow however the camera lead is behind the hotel reception and buried deep within my bag, cocooned even, and i can't be bothered to make the effort for you lot just yet :p)
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