Jet lag got the better of us last night and we were in our room by 630pm, I was ready to sleep but we had to try and stay awake, after a couple of card games we made it until 730 before crashing out. I woke up at 1020 convinced that it must have been the next day and woke David… we had been asleep for 3 hours. It was the longest night of our lives!
Today we went to China town by express river boat. The boats are like taxi’s that come every 5-10 minutes but if you not quick off the mark at hopping \non they won’t wait around for you. They are 15baht pp per trip. Along the way there were so many different style temples.
We got off the boat and decided to wander around thinking we would stumble across temples and tourist spots…. Error number 1. After walking what must have been some of Bangkok’s worst streets for 2 hours and finding not a single temple, we were getting frustrated, signs would point you in the rough direction but then just disappear.we ended up in a Macdonald’s just to use the WiFi to orientate ourselves, some Thai men tried to help us but the language is very much a barrier.
We headed back to the pier and started from scratch, this time following the map in the travel book and much more successfully- this is the way forward from now on!!!! We reached multiple temples and the golden Buddha temple but we could go in because we didn’t have long pants on.
In the evening David had booked muay Thai boxing tickets at the local stadium, we walked up there(following the map!!) And ate dinner in a street market where there were lots of pop up stalls selling cooked Thai food, including full loops of intestine!!! We had the veggie options needless to say!!! Our full dinner for 2 90baht which is just over 2pound!!!
The boxing was a really good night out, everyone s on concrete steps except the vip ticket holders. We sat in the betting area, which we weren’t aware of until the locals moved us on, along with other westerners and it was probably a good job- the thai’s really got into the betting and got pretty rowdy. The boxing was good to watch, they do a dance type ritual before each match and Thai percussion music plays throughout.
Finally we headed to kao San road for a beer before bed, we tempted to walk there from boxing and managed it but only just! it’s typical of any bar strip in European holiday places, loud music, drinks on street, laughing gas in balloons and also roasted scorpions and tarantula.
South East Asia 2019 