It’s been over 2 months already since we made a miraculous travel morale recovery from the abuse we got in Southern Thailand, so apologies if the details of the last 2 weeks in Thailand are a bit fuzzy!
We spent 3 days hanging around in Bangkok and got ridiculously untidy on our last night with a Pommie couple. It was so ridiculous that a bottle of vodka and numerous beers later, we found ourselves in the 7-11 at 4am wolfing down some dodgy sausages they sell on an ongoing rotisserie!! To make matters worse, we had to catch a local un-airconditioned bus for 6 hours at 7am the next morning! It was excruciatingly painful with all the local pungent smells assaulting our nostrils and Shaun’s sudden case of verbal diarrhea didn’t help matters either!!
Sukothai was a welcome relief with only 3 guesthouses 2 choose from, the owners all being eerily friendly and helpful! We spent the first day there completely taking over the lounge and free internet and did sweet nothing. Feeling guilty on the second day, we got up at dawn and went to go and see the ancient temple ruins this little crappy town is famous for. They were beautiful but unfortunately we somehow got it in our heads that we were the energizer bunny re-incarnate and cycled the 7km out of town to the further temples in the midday Asian heat. Eventually we didn’t even bother getting off to look at them and simply concentrated on not passing out in the middle of a foreign country!! We eventually made it back in a semi-conscious state and spent the rest of the day recovering on our bed!!
The next stop further north was Chang Mai, famous for it’s ‘jungle treks’. Well we timed it so well that we arrived at the start of their rice-burning season so the whole town was a ball of smoke and we narrowly escaped having to invest in Nicotine patches. We went on a 3 day hike and it was great walking through ash!! Yes ash! The whole ‘jungle’ was like one massive Thai ashtray and we were the idiots trapsing through it! We did have a great group of people though and apart from answering questions like “How many people are there in Africa?” and “What’s the capital of Africa?”, the riding on elephants and white water rafting wasn’t all that bad! At least we got out of the ash!!
So when we eventually crossed the Thai border into Laos, we were actually sad to leave, having the emotional scarring from southern Thailand conveniently hidden behind the new smoke-screens in our heads!!
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- After 2 years of isolation on a granite rock in the middle of the Indian Ocean, it is almost time for our last big adventure before retirement: Africa. All we know about it at the moment is that we are heading off into the African sunset come April 2010 and not returning for at least 6 months. We know our estimated route and that is about as far as it goes at the moment. For those who would like to join in the adventure (even for just a week or two), PLEASE save us from our own conversation and do. For those who can't, you can keep track of our progress right here on this blog. Whether we'll actually keep it updated . . .well, watch this space!!!
Sunrise at Angkor Wat, Cambodia