Tales from Thailand

So Bonnie Scotland and London were left behind and we boarded our flight to Bangkok. We arrived in Bangkok late afternoon on Wednesday 4th March and found our taxi transfer through the hoards of drivers greeting us at the airport. First impressions - totally chaotic! The roads were mayhem and we caught our first glimpse of the infamous ‘tuk-tuk’s’, or as I came to aptly rename them – death cabs! We whizzed by the families of 4 packed onto mopeds, had a few near crashes (no road sense over here) and got to our hotel eventually, in one piece.

First night in Bangkok was pretty cool. Had some local food and a few drinks and we turned out to have a really nice hotel. Next day we took a walk around the entire city, it was entertaining to say the least. We gave in and got on a ‘tuk-tuk’ – never again!!! After­­­­­­ seeing every type of Buddha imaginable, sleeping, lucky, standing, dancing (well, not the last one), we asked the driver to drop us off at a temple and the guy wasn’t for having it. Wanted to take us to his mate’s shop to get measured for a suit – that would be a good look with our flip-flop’s! After a few heated words were exchanged between both parties, we got out and decided that walking was definitely the better option. Seen the sights and visited the infamous Koh Sahn Road and that was definitely enough of Bangkok. Visited the bridge over the River Kwai (famous during WW2) and took the overnight train with our tour group from Nakhon Pathom to Surat Thani – the train even had a disco kart, almost resembled the last Glasgow-Stirling train on a Saturday night, without the chip butties! I think that Bryan and I both agree that our favourite part of Thailand was Ao Nang, Krabi – the Thai beaches were amazing! We did a tour of the Phi Phi islands, fed some monkeys and did some snorkelling in the tropical waters – some of these beaches were definitely close to what we’d imagined paradise to be.

After a few days lazing by the beach and drinking some Chang beer, we made our way with the tour to Malaysia. Thailand is overall a really friendly country and pretty cheap too, which is definitely a bonus for the budget traveller. I think we both agree that we both preferred the chilled out coastal areas of Thailand to the hustle and bustle of Bangkok. So with the Thai leg of our tour complete, off to Malaysia it was…

To view some pictures from our trip through Thailand CLICK HERE