Arrived in Bangkok

Posted by Brian

Posted on July 25, 2007

Got into to Thailand today at around 3:30 and you can only imagine my disgust when I looked out the window and saw the exact same conditions that I left behind in Dublin! Not impressed. The only difference is though that here when you walk out side you just get smashed by a wall o heat. There are some funky smells here too. Some bad some good.

Bangkok is at times the exact same as Dublin or any other Western place and then at other times exactly like you see it in films with guys on bikes flying every where and just a mass of foot traffic. We got driven around in a tuk tuk earlier too. Those things can move. They are great fun. Its just a pitty I don't have a charger for my camera yet. When I do I'll get some pics together fairly fast I'd say.

Anyway we went down to TAT, although didn't ask for Gap. They pretty much just sorted out the next 2 weeks of our lives. First we head from Bangkok in 2 days and head north to Changmai. There we are doing a 3 day trek with elephant ride! Sounds like alot of fun. The we get a bus to a town on the border with Laos to stay a night. From there we are getting a slow boat into Laos. After that we are on our own again. They sorted out our Vietnam visas too as well as the hotel in Bangkok. All for about 250 and that includes most of our meals too.

Going to go now and try to get some food and some drink and a lady-boy... :)

Later

Brian