The morning we checked out of the Sinad Hostel near Khao San road i was shattered as it was just soo loud all night just because of tuk tuks and motorbikes mainly. And we had a 1 fan in our room to keep us cool all night so it was a bit warm!we got a tuk tuk to the grand palace but when we got there a thai man said, thais through that entrance and tourists through that entrance as it was an important day for bhuddism then when we got there another man said that the tours were all booked so will have to go back when we get back in Bangkok we did however see a 47 meter tall Bhuddha. It was then time to leave and go back down to Silom road near sukhumvit road near the royal Asia where we were staying in a dorm.
Our stay at the YHA Hostel was good, the staff were really friendly and me and Bridget were in the room on our own for hours so we had the chance to go on the skytrain again as we wanted to go to Siam shopping, we got confused at the very straight forward station a number of times having our tickets sucked away by the wrong machines and then going on the train the wrong way but eventually we found shopping heaven, a mall like i had never seen before filled to the brim with everthing you could ever possibly want to buy only its half the price of England, may just stop off there before we fly home, we are allowed 35kg after all!!
When we got back to the dorm after feasting on street stall food we were shattered and started to think that we were going to be alone in the dorm with an empty bunk bed but 2 30 year old German girls came in and told us that they were flying to Indonesia, Bali, Australia, Vietnam and cambodia all in 1 month. Finally we met some other people who were travelling!!I did sleep really well to the conostant noise of the air conditioning which blocked out the noise of the skytrain going past every 5 minutes however there were mosquito flying above my head and little black bugs that if you squished them would explode leaving blood everywhere, it was disgusting so has to sleep in my sleeping liner all night. The next one we have booked cost 1.94 pound so i dread to think what that one is going to be like but can t wait to see the countryside and maybe an Elephant or 2. :P
We checked out this morning and went to pick up our passport from the Vietnam Embassy in Bangkok as you cannot get them from the border, it went smoothly and was straight forward much better that the ones in England.
Catching our sleeper train tonight to Chiang Mai tongiht at 6:00
