Well I am sitting here at Bangkok airport and the time has come where I am now a total nomad, alone and kinda feeling weird about it! Said the sad goodbyes to Alana about an hour ago so we are one hour down and thousands to go.
I would like to be able to say the last few days have been super eventful and full of fun filled adventures. But the truth is they have been faaar from it. We have really been locked up in our hotel like a thai prison cell and to be honest, were glad to see the back of Koh Phangan!
Sounds a bit dbuzz but its the truth. Had about 2 days in bed after the neck/gastro issues between Alana and I. Not that there was anything to do since it was literally raining non stop for the entire time we were there so tan = gone, SO GUTTED about this!
So Koh Phangan = literally did nothing worthy of reporting. Excccept the whole reason we went there which was for the full moon party and I must say one of the biggest nights of my life! so Alana and I managed to mish it into town to get some fluro gears to wear - both got some full moon party tops and some fluro bands to wear. Then later that day we started drinking at the hotel restaurant/bar with all the other people staying there. Heeeaps of fun there met so many random people. ended up with a bunch of kiwis and south africans arguing over many important issues such as who are the biggest drinkers. Who do SA's think they are..? Got roped into doing various SICK as shots by the SA's then headed down to the beach for the full moon. Cannot describe the setting it was AMAZING. Apparently 25,000 people were there on the beach and theres just DJs and lights and people partying and dancing everywhere. so much fun. So we spent most of the night at this bar that was kinda like a boat like it jutted out onto the sea and in my state i started to think omg are we actually going out to sea on some boat...fail. Anyway so sadly lana felt sick and left early :( but sam and I continued on to the wee hours of the night not making it home til 7am. It was like all of a sudden it was daytime and I was like man what a rager, made it out til sunrise haha did not expect that. Comad people allll over the beach was hilarious. Almost got into a fight with a random thai lady just because i said "the "F" word" twice NEAR her. Total psycho. Anyway made it home covered in paint with random necklaces and other various possessions I obtained over the night and was OUT to it as soon as I hit the bed.
the next day was another worst day of my life. Absolute worst hangover ever. was moping around feeling sorry for myself and couldnt even make it out of the hotel. So that was a tooootal write off but totally worth it.
Then came today. the ONLY sunny day on the island and were bloody leaving it grrr! BUT we were actually itching to get out of there we needed civilisation again! So we started the LONG journey of the sickening boat ride back to Koh Samui where the airport is. Water was sooo chopping and there were literally waves coming in to the boat where we were sitting. Feeling sufficiently sick we got off the boat and headed to Koh samui airport. Flight is continuously delayed eventually three hours later than planned were off to Bangkok. Now I have another three hours to wait here then the long 13 hour flight to London begins.
I am a bit nervous to think what the hell I am going to do when I get off in London and its like nooo one knows me or cares about where I am/what I'm doing but also excited because we know I have dreamed of going to europe forever!!! So as soon as I get there I have some very specific instructions including maps and photos from the friend I am staying with as to how to get to his house...this should be interesting... think I'll crash as soon as I get there so next update will be from London woooooo!
Friday, 30 November 2012
Monday, 26 November 2012
Phuket - Ko Phangan
Right well to begin this blog let me inform
you of my current state. I am sitting in bed in the dark...in a freakin neck
brace. Got lana next to me who at one stage was on a drip, needle in her ass
and crying her eyes out. We are both in a total state and while were kinda
finding it funny now it was not quite so funny last night. So I woke up
yesterday in HUGE pain and I basically couldn’t move. Turns out this is because I slept for too long in a really messed up position. All day I was like hunched over neck to one side
walking around like a grandma and lana is literally spewing every 30 minutes.
So after one day of complete pain we decide a doctor is needed. This cute
little doctor comes and tells Alana she has gastro and me i have a sprained
muscle in my neck. So that brings us to the drip and neckbrace. Tonnes of pills
surround us and a total doctors bill of $700 AHHH. NOT liking Ko Phangan at
this point...AT ALL.
Anyway that aside I should try and remember what we have done the last few days.
Day 8:
Anyway that aside I should try and remember what we have done the last few days.
Day 8:
Today was a pretty chilled day for me just
sat by the pool and read all day. Alana and Sam went to Karon beach for the day
which they really liked – a lot less touristy and busy. Then that night we went
out for a nice last dinner in Phuket and had an early night. Meant to mention
that we went to a ping pong show the night before. Was quite av but Alana
hadn’t been before. All we really saw was ping pong balls and quite grossly,
live birds. Crazy! Funniest part was meeting a 45 yr old stripper with 3 kids.
She let us smack her with this spongy thing that makes a hard sound but
actually doesn’t hurt at all. Then she and another stripper started grabbing my
boobs...must be normal over here to grab a random chicks boobs or something!!
Day 9:
Today was our mission from Phuket to Ko
Samui and on to Ko Phangan. Got up with plenty of time to spare and yet somehow
we were again rushing to the airport cutting it SUPER fine thinking we might
miss another flight...so embarrassing. But we make it in time thank god. We
keep bumping into the same people which is quite cool. This huge aussie family
from the hotel that Alana and I keep trying to work out their dynamics, think
we got it sussed. And the aussies who showed us some bar tricks were on the
same flight as us to Samui. So we flew the 40 mins to Ko Samui and arrived
there expecting to get a jet boat over to Phangan. Incorrect. It was like $280
to get a jet boat so gave up the dream of champagne on the back of our private
boat and caught the dingy old ferry across. Total mission but we made it over in
an hour. Then another tuk tuk to our hotel and were finally here. We decided to
head out for dinner straight away. Ended up at this cool place (maybe not so
cool if it made lana sick) but had yum food. Since it started POURING down we
had no choice but to continue drinking there. So only 4 drinks later and it hit us
all of a sudden like a train. I think the heat just makes it way worse. Decided to call it a night we were just far too tired - I think a whole day of travel wore us out completely.
So Day 10:
As described...literally one of the worst days of my life. Just been in so much pain both Alana and I just wishing someone was here to take care of us. Magically about 4pm the nicest aussie woman shows up and is like a mum to us, totally taking care of us calling the doctor getting us food and water and helping us move rooms – a total godsend she was amazing. So yup had the doctor come help us but all we wanted to do was sleep. I think we were both out to it at about 8pm. So now here we are day 11, it is STILL pissing down and lana and I cant think of anything worse than partying for the full moon tomorrow night. I will keep you updated on that one but it aint looking good!!
So Day 10:
As described...literally one of the worst days of my life. Just been in so much pain both Alana and I just wishing someone was here to take care of us. Magically about 4pm the nicest aussie woman shows up and is like a mum to us, totally taking care of us calling the doctor getting us food and water and helping us move rooms – a total godsend she was amazing. So yup had the doctor come help us but all we wanted to do was sleep. I think we were both out to it at about 8pm. So now here we are day 11, it is STILL pissing down and lana and I cant think of anything worse than partying for the full moon tomorrow night. I will keep you updated on that one but it aint looking good!!
Friday, 23 November 2012
Patong
Right must update this more often before I start to forget what we've actually been doing.
Day 5:
Today was a full on shopping day. We decided to split up to get more done since we were all looking for different things. So we set a meeting time and place and were off. I was cruising the markets putting on my ultimate bitch to all the salespeople - its so weird to think that in NZ we would neveeer ignore a salesperson or someone talking to us on the streets but here its like even if you look remotely in their direction or even at their store its like they grab you and want to be your best friend. Pointing out all their merchandise as if you dont have eyes and cant see whats right in front of you. Annnyway so I go to this stall and the guy is like "we have back room, more stock" so I was like hellls yes and hes taking me all up these stairs and unlocks this door takes me in and locks it behind me. All of a sudden i was like whaaat am I doing no one knows where I am or what im doing...but I think the people are just really interested in selling you stuff as opposed to like beating and robbing you. Sooo I end up buying some fake vans and getting outta there. Started being like this back room guru and going to see all the goods they hide in random creepy rooms - bought a bag and that was me done for the day. Typical me I forgot what time we were meeting, it was either 1 or 130 so I go at both times just to see, turns out it was 1.30 ahh what a retard. Caaant really remember what we did in the arvo but that night we went to "Phuket FantaSea" which has this super catchy themesong we all cant stop singing. It was the BEST thing I have done yet - sooo cool! It was like a cultural theme park with tigers and snakes and random animals. Then it was an hour and a half long show with elephants, dancing, acting, magic, acrobats, and just such cool visual effects I was actually blown away. then we had a buffet dinner at this HUGE banquet room (check FB for photos) and that was a raelly cool opportunity to try different thai dishes, so we just got a little of each. Also tried random thai desserts, cant say im a fan they tasted like straight up egg with a bit of sugar. ew. So after we all felt sufficiently sick to our stomachs and wanting to spew we decided to put down the forks and get the hell outta there. SUCH a good day/night!
Day 6:
Today was a total lazy pool/beach day. We spent all morning soaking in some rays and hanging by the pool, this was definitely the nicest hottest day yet. Eating fruit and shakes by the pool then we headed down to the beach. Alana was super keen to do parasailing and she just bit the bullet and did it! She really enjoyed it even though it was literally about 4 minutes. Had some nice lunch talking to a dude from Nepal who was telling us about his DVD store. We asked him all the questions we'd be wanting to ask - who buys DVDs since everyone downloads, do you hate people just shutting you down and ignoring you, why did you come here etc. etc. Quite interesting but then he got kinda annoying so we got outta there. Then we went back to drinks by the pool - not the wisest idea because we were all "a bit tiddly" (as Lana would say) by like 6pm. Walking back from the pool it just hit us, all the sun and drinks was not the greatest mix. so sam went off to thai boxing and alana and I went out on the towwwwn. Very fun night but couldnt stay out tooo long we were so tired from the sun. Man doing nothing is TIRING!
Day 7:
Today we wake up super late had to rush down for breakfast. Sam was feeling super sick so he had to stay back at the hotel and nap while Alana and I did some more shopping. Got me a cute coin purse, some cool lights for my bed post thing and a hat. Bartering was in full force this day but some people were just not having a bar and werent budging on their RIDICULOUS prices. So missed out on some cool stuff but meh. Trying to save luggage room for the rest of the trip! Then we went down to the beach to meet up with some friends wed all met - that was fun they were filling me in on England and what to do/where to go. All im hearing is London is shit and im going to get robbed...theyre reeeally selling it to me. so walking back to the hotel hearing the usual "dvd, massaaaage, gidday mate (everyone thinking were aussies), tuk tuk" and the worst thing is these guys holding ugly as LEMURS and literally putting them in our faces!! Scares the crap out of me!!! I had to ask what it was because theyre freaking everywhere and making me scream everytime I have one thrown in my face and the guy tries to tell me its a koala..OH YUP. this must be some new fad because theyre everywhere and id never seen one last time i was here. Annnyway so later that evening we went out for a massage at the same place wed gone a few nights before. I got stuck with the dude and I was NOT keen but he was actually the best!! Definitely going back there. Then we went out for dinner at the place we went on the first night. I tried Penang curry (Kierans suggestion and a good one) which is like a yellow curry and really liked it! Definitely expanding my food horizons so much being here. New appreciation for green red and yellow curries which I thought I hated before this trip. Also tried a few new random fruits too which Ive all liked. So went out tonight and planned on this being our RAGER - mission, successful. Had a huuuge night went to so many cool bars - we have learnt to load up on the cheap drinks first before going to actual pricey clubs. Started at this one bar where these aussies spent like an hour showing us some tricks they learnt from thais. kinda like mindgames using matchsticks. definitely keeping those badboys to mess with peoples minds when i get home. Then we moved on to white room which is like 2000's gangsta beats with australian guidos everrrrywhere. Quite hilarious we kinda just chilled and took it all in. Had a bit of a dance and a laugh there then moved on. I keep getting asked if im swedish everywhere! secretly quite stoked with that one. anyway so we continued on the night went to a few cool bars just dancing for hours then alana and i had lost sam so we headed home walked all the way laughing the entire walk with all our hilarious jokes we have accumulated so far...not funny to the outside world but funny to us haha.
Right well its 12.40pm and im stuck inside because it is PELTING down. Grrr! We have only had one nice sunny day which is lame. dont really know what to do with ourselves when it rains like this. Better head off going to meet up with sam and lana who are out having lunch.
Will post again in Ko Phangan probably!
Day 5:
Today was a full on shopping day. We decided to split up to get more done since we were all looking for different things. So we set a meeting time and place and were off. I was cruising the markets putting on my ultimate bitch to all the salespeople - its so weird to think that in NZ we would neveeer ignore a salesperson or someone talking to us on the streets but here its like even if you look remotely in their direction or even at their store its like they grab you and want to be your best friend. Pointing out all their merchandise as if you dont have eyes and cant see whats right in front of you. Annnyway so I go to this stall and the guy is like "we have back room, more stock" so I was like hellls yes and hes taking me all up these stairs and unlocks this door takes me in and locks it behind me. All of a sudden i was like whaaat am I doing no one knows where I am or what im doing...but I think the people are just really interested in selling you stuff as opposed to like beating and robbing you. Sooo I end up buying some fake vans and getting outta there. Started being like this back room guru and going to see all the goods they hide in random creepy rooms - bought a bag and that was me done for the day. Typical me I forgot what time we were meeting, it was either 1 or 130 so I go at both times just to see, turns out it was 1.30 ahh what a retard. Caaant really remember what we did in the arvo but that night we went to "Phuket FantaSea" which has this super catchy themesong we all cant stop singing. It was the BEST thing I have done yet - sooo cool! It was like a cultural theme park with tigers and snakes and random animals. Then it was an hour and a half long show with elephants, dancing, acting, magic, acrobats, and just such cool visual effects I was actually blown away. then we had a buffet dinner at this HUGE banquet room (check FB for photos) and that was a raelly cool opportunity to try different thai dishes, so we just got a little of each. Also tried random thai desserts, cant say im a fan they tasted like straight up egg with a bit of sugar. ew. So after we all felt sufficiently sick to our stomachs and wanting to spew we decided to put down the forks and get the hell outta there. SUCH a good day/night!
Day 6:
Today was a total lazy pool/beach day. We spent all morning soaking in some rays and hanging by the pool, this was definitely the nicest hottest day yet. Eating fruit and shakes by the pool then we headed down to the beach. Alana was super keen to do parasailing and she just bit the bullet and did it! She really enjoyed it even though it was literally about 4 minutes. Had some nice lunch talking to a dude from Nepal who was telling us about his DVD store. We asked him all the questions we'd be wanting to ask - who buys DVDs since everyone downloads, do you hate people just shutting you down and ignoring you, why did you come here etc. etc. Quite interesting but then he got kinda annoying so we got outta there. Then we went back to drinks by the pool - not the wisest idea because we were all "a bit tiddly" (as Lana would say) by like 6pm. Walking back from the pool it just hit us, all the sun and drinks was not the greatest mix. so sam went off to thai boxing and alana and I went out on the towwwwn. Very fun night but couldnt stay out tooo long we were so tired from the sun. Man doing nothing is TIRING!
Day 7:
Today we wake up super late had to rush down for breakfast. Sam was feeling super sick so he had to stay back at the hotel and nap while Alana and I did some more shopping. Got me a cute coin purse, some cool lights for my bed post thing and a hat. Bartering was in full force this day but some people were just not having a bar and werent budging on their RIDICULOUS prices. So missed out on some cool stuff but meh. Trying to save luggage room for the rest of the trip! Then we went down to the beach to meet up with some friends wed all met - that was fun they were filling me in on England and what to do/where to go. All im hearing is London is shit and im going to get robbed...theyre reeeally selling it to me. so walking back to the hotel hearing the usual "dvd, massaaaage, gidday mate (everyone thinking were aussies), tuk tuk" and the worst thing is these guys holding ugly as LEMURS and literally putting them in our faces!! Scares the crap out of me!!! I had to ask what it was because theyre freaking everywhere and making me scream everytime I have one thrown in my face and the guy tries to tell me its a koala..OH YUP. this must be some new fad because theyre everywhere and id never seen one last time i was here. Annnyway so later that evening we went out for a massage at the same place wed gone a few nights before. I got stuck with the dude and I was NOT keen but he was actually the best!! Definitely going back there. Then we went out for dinner at the place we went on the first night. I tried Penang curry (Kierans suggestion and a good one) which is like a yellow curry and really liked it! Definitely expanding my food horizons so much being here. New appreciation for green red and yellow curries which I thought I hated before this trip. Also tried a few new random fruits too which Ive all liked. So went out tonight and planned on this being our RAGER - mission, successful. Had a huuuge night went to so many cool bars - we have learnt to load up on the cheap drinks first before going to actual pricey clubs. Started at this one bar where these aussies spent like an hour showing us some tricks they learnt from thais. kinda like mindgames using matchsticks. definitely keeping those badboys to mess with peoples minds when i get home. Then we moved on to white room which is like 2000's gangsta beats with australian guidos everrrrywhere. Quite hilarious we kinda just chilled and took it all in. Had a bit of a dance and a laugh there then moved on. I keep getting asked if im swedish everywhere! secretly quite stoked with that one. anyway so we continued on the night went to a few cool bars just dancing for hours then alana and i had lost sam so we headed home walked all the way laughing the entire walk with all our hilarious jokes we have accumulated so far...not funny to the outside world but funny to us haha.
Right well its 12.40pm and im stuck inside because it is PELTING down. Grrr! We have only had one nice sunny day which is lame. dont really know what to do with ourselves when it rains like this. Better head off going to meet up with sam and lana who are out having lunch.
Will post again in Ko Phangan probably!
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Day three:
Today was a complete fail in more ways than one. So first we get up and decide we have heeeaps of time before our flight to Phuket so why not lounge around the pool for an hour or so. WRONG. We gave ourselves 30 mins to get to the airport and apparently had the wrong one so ended up taking an hour and we legit missed our flight. Sooo amature. New respect for AirAsia as they put us on another flight 4 hours later for free. So we had to bus to this other airport and wait it out, alllll good compared to what other crap we might have had to go through.
Eventually we make it to Phuket. Straight into a van which takes us to yet another 'stop' to try and convince everyone to buy crap at 'cheap deal cheap deal'. Then we switch vans and end up chatting to these cool travellers from Wales and Ireland. Got some tips on where to go in Ireland...nowhere was her advice..haha apparently 2 days is all you need to soak in the only good place - Dublin. And all there is to do is drink. Meh sounds fiiine to me. Anyway we get dropped off at our AMAZING hotel (thanks Abbey!) and decide to dump our stuff and venture out. Sams second major fail is discovered - he has lost his favourite shoes. They still havent turned up and we actually have NO idea what happened to them. RIP awesome shoes. Annnyway so were headed out to Phuket nightlife, AWESOME. Such a fun night! We all end up having quite a few drinks and surprising feeling kinda old...most of the people seemed about 18 at the bars/clubs we went to. But we go hard for a few hours before calling it a night and heading back straight to sleep. So that ended up being a really good day despite all the total mess ups!
Day four:
Today was super chilled. We just hung by the pool alllll morning. Then we hit up the gym pumped some weights in the sweltering heat - probably good for us given all the yum food consumption and somewhat excessive amount of cocktails. Then we head out for some shopping. Hitting up the markets and the mall - again not much was bought, a few tops and jewellery is all. Already SO SO over all the psycho people trying to get you to buy stuff ARGH if I wanted that crap I would look myself and NO I don't want DVD or masssaaaagggeee!! Well actually we did want massages and got them tonight - so good! Funny side note - literally about every half hour some dude congratulates Sam on 'having two wives' hahahaha its actually classic their first reaction to our random group dynamics. We cant get enough of it. Right so had dinner, massage then we decide to go be random and buy weird thai stuff from the supermarket that we dont know what it is (Narissa and I did this heaps last time and it was so fun opening the packet to the unknown!) and we stumble across this thai show. 200 baht so were like whyyy not. Totally in thai and we are literally the only tourists there. Getting super weird looks and trying to laugh when everyone else was can be hard! Was soo interesting though the whole show was so sparkly and just crazy like singing and dancing. God knows what the hell it was actually about though. Well that pretty much sums up today - pictures to come!
Today was a complete fail in more ways than one. So first we get up and decide we have heeeaps of time before our flight to Phuket so why not lounge around the pool for an hour or so. WRONG. We gave ourselves 30 mins to get to the airport and apparently had the wrong one so ended up taking an hour and we legit missed our flight. Sooo amature. New respect for AirAsia as they put us on another flight 4 hours later for free. So we had to bus to this other airport and wait it out, alllll good compared to what other crap we might have had to go through.
Eventually we make it to Phuket. Straight into a van which takes us to yet another 'stop' to try and convince everyone to buy crap at 'cheap deal cheap deal'. Then we switch vans and end up chatting to these cool travellers from Wales and Ireland. Got some tips on where to go in Ireland...nowhere was her advice..haha apparently 2 days is all you need to soak in the only good place - Dublin. And all there is to do is drink. Meh sounds fiiine to me. Anyway we get dropped off at our AMAZING hotel (thanks Abbey!) and decide to dump our stuff and venture out. Sams second major fail is discovered - he has lost his favourite shoes. They still havent turned up and we actually have NO idea what happened to them. RIP awesome shoes. Annnyway so were headed out to Phuket nightlife, AWESOME. Such a fun night! We all end up having quite a few drinks and surprising feeling kinda old...most of the people seemed about 18 at the bars/clubs we went to. But we go hard for a few hours before calling it a night and heading back straight to sleep. So that ended up being a really good day despite all the total mess ups!
Day four:
Today was super chilled. We just hung by the pool alllll morning. Then we hit up the gym pumped some weights in the sweltering heat - probably good for us given all the yum food consumption and somewhat excessive amount of cocktails. Then we head out for some shopping. Hitting up the markets and the mall - again not much was bought, a few tops and jewellery is all. Already SO SO over all the psycho people trying to get you to buy stuff ARGH if I wanted that crap I would look myself and NO I don't want DVD or masssaaaagggeee!! Well actually we did want massages and got them tonight - so good! Funny side note - literally about every half hour some dude congratulates Sam on 'having two wives' hahahaha its actually classic their first reaction to our random group dynamics. We cant get enough of it. Right so had dinner, massage then we decide to go be random and buy weird thai stuff from the supermarket that we dont know what it is (Narissa and I did this heaps last time and it was so fun opening the packet to the unknown!) and we stumble across this thai show. 200 baht so were like whyyy not. Totally in thai and we are literally the only tourists there. Getting super weird looks and trying to laugh when everyone else was can be hard! Was soo interesting though the whole show was so sparkly and just crazy like singing and dancing. God knows what the hell it was actually about though. Well that pretty much sums up today - pictures to come!
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Photo photo
Better add a few photos
Chang Beer at a bar on Khaosan Rd
Us today at a temple
More to come when I have more time!!
Day 1 The Journey and Day 2 Bangkok craziness
First blog entry wooo!
DAY ONE:
The looong plane journey:
Up at 3am on the plane by 7am and in Sydney by about 12pm. Really liked Sydney for the one hour we managed to squeeze in there! Visited the Opera House and Harbour Bridge - pretty standard. Stupidly forgot to bring Aussie dollars so Sam to the rescue. First slight issue of the trip - Sam realises hours later he has left his iPad on the plane...oops. By some miracle we manage to locate it and its back safe in Sams possession. So the next leg of the plane journey again long and uninteresting.
Bangkok arrival:Jipped as soon as we arrive when for some reason we give a way overgenerous tip to this dude for carrying our bags a few metres. finally arrive at our hotel and even though we have been up 24 hours straight decide what the helllll lets go out 'on the turps' (as Dad would say and we found extra hilarious in our zombie like state last night). Hit Khaosan Rd nightlife, full of cheaps drinks and tourists. So we got cheap cocktails and buckets and spent the night at a few cool bars. Met some entertaining Thais who were obviously school kids way overexcited at partying in town literally grinding all over people for attention from every passerby. Annnyway we eventually found this epic club and attempted to stay there for a bit but the tiredness hit and we were outta there and to bed pretty quick
TWENTY EIGHT hours awake going strong!
DAY TWO Barak is in Phuket:
Today consisted of cramming in as much tourist stuff as possible into a 24 hour period. We went to a few temples, buddas, palaces - that sort of thing. We had this cute as tuk tuk driver who told us he was Michael schumaker and drove like an absolute maniac. He took us to random as factories and 'high end fashion stores', another little con we have since learned to avoid. Later we took a boat ride down the canal which was pretty eye opening seeing how all the people live down there. Then hit up MBK this mammoth shopping centre with like 7 floors all just packed with any and every type of store you can think of. Surprisingly none of us have bought anything yet, saving that for Phuket! So its now 6.30pm and we are starting to get ready for partying in Bangkok round two. Lets see how long we last given we are all prrrretty exhausted.
Oh and to explain the title - Barak Obama is in Bangkok! Self important president that he is he got two of the biggest tourist must do's shut down so he could see them...damnit! Though to be honest we were semi keen to go and hang round just to see him since we really do love the guy.
Till next time :)
DAY ONE:
The looong plane journey:
Up at 3am on the plane by 7am and in Sydney by about 12pm. Really liked Sydney for the one hour we managed to squeeze in there! Visited the Opera House and Harbour Bridge - pretty standard. Stupidly forgot to bring Aussie dollars so Sam to the rescue. First slight issue of the trip - Sam realises hours later he has left his iPad on the plane...oops. By some miracle we manage to locate it and its back safe in Sams possession. So the next leg of the plane journey again long and uninteresting.
Bangkok arrival:Jipped as soon as we arrive when for some reason we give a way overgenerous tip to this dude for carrying our bags a few metres. finally arrive at our hotel and even though we have been up 24 hours straight decide what the helllll lets go out 'on the turps' (as Dad would say and we found extra hilarious in our zombie like state last night). Hit Khaosan Rd nightlife, full of cheaps drinks and tourists. So we got cheap cocktails and buckets and spent the night at a few cool bars. Met some entertaining Thais who were obviously school kids way overexcited at partying in town literally grinding all over people for attention from every passerby. Annnyway we eventually found this epic club and attempted to stay there for a bit but the tiredness hit and we were outta there and to bed pretty quick
TWENTY EIGHT hours awake going strong!
DAY TWO Barak is in Phuket:
Today consisted of cramming in as much tourist stuff as possible into a 24 hour period. We went to a few temples, buddas, palaces - that sort of thing. We had this cute as tuk tuk driver who told us he was Michael schumaker and drove like an absolute maniac. He took us to random as factories and 'high end fashion stores', another little con we have since learned to avoid. Later we took a boat ride down the canal which was pretty eye opening seeing how all the people live down there. Then hit up MBK this mammoth shopping centre with like 7 floors all just packed with any and every type of store you can think of. Surprisingly none of us have bought anything yet, saving that for Phuket! So its now 6.30pm and we are starting to get ready for partying in Bangkok round two. Lets see how long we last given we are all prrrretty exhausted.
Oh and to explain the title - Barak Obama is in Bangkok! Self important president that he is he got two of the biggest tourist must do's shut down so he could see them...damnit! Though to be honest we were semi keen to go and hang round just to see him since we really do love the guy.
Till next time :)
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