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Amelia, Round The Other Side!
past few days in bangkok have been good! went to the grand palace and the emerald budda a few days ago. it was so hot! Bangkok was the hottest city listed at 37.25 degrees!!!!!! very hot and its a dry heat not like singapore. anyway we walked to the palace which took us ages we then couldnt find our way in and kept getting stopped my con men saying the place was closed and it was budda day and they would take us in tuk tuk tour! its a huge scam to pressurise you into buying stuff! waste of a day! we left those guys as we have heard it so many times beforw. everyone is out to con you!! its bad. we visited the reclining budda in one of the oldest temples in bangkok. it was a huge 47m buddha lying on its side with peral fet showing pictures of the 108 bedda meanings or something like that! was cool to see. we then went inot grand palace! wow!!!!! vatican eat your heart out!!! it was beautiful! so uch gold and sparkle!!! king used to live hear but not now. we saw the famous emerald buddha too! was cool! not allowed to take photos of it from inside! i got a sneaky one from outside but dont know how clear it is! we had to sit and pay our respects to it! there were monks there too! some as young as 7 or 8! wee boys! the grand palace has a strict dress rule so i was wearing long skirt and vest top but i had to put a long sleeveed top on to cover shoulders!! it was so hot!!!!!!! the next day we got ourselves lost in bangkok on purpose! took a river boat down the river got offat a stop and walked around! was great! found tons of markets and ended up finding china town and went to see some sights!! making your self get lost is sometimes the best way to see a city! On friday janine and i went to see rich and steve (two guys she worked at beaches with) they had decided to spLSH OUT ON A HUGE HOTEL WITH SWIMMING POOL AND AMAZING views of the city!!! hotel started on the 11th floor!! they had sepnt the last 2 months sleping in a tent and their car!! so decided they deserved it!! was great they had air con!!! so we spent the day lazing by the pool and having beers! went back to our hostel to get food and et ready and let lynsey and davod meet the guys then we headed out down koh san road!!! what a night!! wazs great! we ended up in a thai club and we were only westerners but it ws god! then we went ot another place and it had a thai band on that were actually really good! by this point we had lost lynsey and david! oh and the australian we picked up at the hostel! he was an unusual fellow! we went back to rich and steves hotel room as well they had air con!!! spent all day very hungover lazing by pool and in room watching tele....in air con!!! was a good day just relaxing and chilling! Jnsaine and i were getting a train to chang mai at 930pm and didnt back back to our hostel till after 8pm!! was a mad rush packing stuff and going for train! it had started raining too and we couldnt get a taxi as everyone was using them!! was soaked!!!! got there eventually and made our train!! was a sleeper and it was crapmed and far too hot but once train got going it cooled down! (all windows open) i didnt sleep to well as it was soooo noisy!! i am exhausted today! also hadnt eaten for about 24 hrs due to hangover! well had a subway! took me an hour to get it as over judges how far away it was then the king decides to pass so i was stuck at traffic lights for about 20mins!! ahhh! anway looking forard to elephant trekking in changmai! it is so uch cooler here! still very warm but much cooler then bangkok! Rich and steve wanted us to stay another night in bangkok but we had to be moving!
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