We had some beers on a street bar - just think of a few chairs on the side of 5th ave or Piccadilly Circus and you've pretty much got it and a farewell dinner for some of the guys we have been travelling with for the last month.
We took it easy the next day and visited the Thieves market, the textile market and a few other random ones. In addition Erin went to the Royal palace and I went to the Bangkok aquarium which bills itself as being the biggest in S.E. Asia - It was huge and we got to witness, shark feeding, stingray feeding, all the weird and wonderful sea creatures above us as we walked through the underwater tunnel and also from above as we got a glass bottom boat trip. We then went to a 4D show about prehistoric sea life which was amazing as the sensations of having your seat moving in time with the show really brought it all to life (and scared the girl behind us to death).
One of the more interesting markets we visited was the Patpong night market where I picked up a few decent polo shirts for under $10 that will see me through for the next couple of weeks... As it happens the Patpong market also has certain "shows" so if you are averse to any of the following don't go there.
- Douches
- Ping pong balls
- 3 inch sewing needles
- Flowers on a string
- coke bottles being opened
- Bananas flying across the room etc etc
As this is a PG rated post I won't go any further but you get the picture... Queue the tears from her majesty to go home.... so we left... by Tuk Tuk as none of the cabs would take us home - actually this turned out to be a much more fun way of doing it as we needed two TukTuks to get 6 of us home so the TukTuks ended up racing each other and ended up with one of them "getting air" it was going so fast - it actually beat a Mercedes Compressor off the line at a traffic light... Erin's TukTuk won though so my driver didn't get a tip!!! ;-)
We got a night bus from Bangkok down the Gulf of Thailand and then a fast boat to and island called Koh Tao where we are currently holed up and we expect to do a bit of diving as it looks like a great place to do it... all will be revealed in next post.
Hope you are all well
Al
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