I am currently in the Khao Sok national park in the south of Thailand. I firstly met up with Andy in Bangkok and we drank too much beer and caught up on all the news since I've left England. The next day we were able to breifly catch up with my cousin Jon and some of his mates to visit the grand palace in Bangkok. I have been there before - the first time I was in Bangkok so I should have remembered that you couldn't wear no sleeves and shorts!!! I didn't though and we therefore had to borrow the clothing that they give out to tourists to make them look stupid! We saw Thai people who had been alowed into the palce without having to dress in either the ridiculous plastic trousers Andy wore or the mens shirts and gold sarong I had to wear!!!!
Anyway - we really only had the one day in Bagkok after which Andy and I boarded a train to Srat Thai - a horrible brothel; town that I had been stuck in before, which also serves as the connection to the islands and Khao Sok national park.
I had forgotten how beautiful it was here and had started to take scenery like this forgranted until Andy proclaimed that this was probobly the best place he had been in his life and I looked around and realised it really is one of the nicest places ever.
John met us at the bungalows and we geaded off to go swimming in the river. I had been warned by Cherie and Rod about the biting fish but that did nothing to stop me letting out a almightly( and very girly) squeal when I was bitten. I was convinced it was a snake it hurt so much and both the boys just pissed themselves laughing at me - noone showed the slightest concern!!!
We had a great afternoon swinging on the rope swing into the river, then headed up to see monkeys at the temple. We met an English couple that we had drinks and played cards with last night which was great fun and then spent today floating down the river in tubes - you can't get more perfect than that!
John has now gone back to Ka Samui and Andy and I are going on a trip to the lakes tomorrow and will prob head to Phi Phi after that so I'll write more then!
