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Bangkok bangkok...crazy times! Rocked up at 5am after spending 12 hours on a crazy night sleeper train! Super sweaty, crammed on with tonnes of locals - once again managed to get off the tourist trail! We all has our own little boxes with curtains to hide the prying eyes, and a rickety old fan which just made things hotter! Never been so sticky in my life!
Hit up a mall on our first day - not so sophisticated as the malaysian ones, and got a new pink camera after a drunk in koh tao broke the retro beast i had! Hit up the cinema - all the thais get up before a film and stand whilst the national anthem plays! They defintely have more of a thing for the royal family here than in England...
Missioned around the temples on our second day there - the grand palace was lovely, but soo hot and a tad overpriced. Wat Pho was great - had my kind of budda in there - a massive reclining one just chilling on its side! Definite must see - lots of thais around giving offerings to budda in a million different ways - bringing flowers, money, holy water and lighting incense.
Went to the weekend chatuchak market - absolutely massive market that takes up about the space of an airfield! Sold everything under the sun, including lots of animals! There was a whole pet section that made me feel slightly sick - no animal rights over here! Birds and little racoon like things rammed into small cages everywhere. Picked up lots of lovely jewelry for me and some of you lucky ladies back home :)
Had an immense last night out in Bangkok - crazy times! Went to the sex district in Patpong to see one of the infamous ping pong shows...very degrading, the women's faces were scarily blank and i have no idea how old some of them were...walked out after about 5 minutes only to be threatened with a massive drinks bill by a butch female bouncer! I told her where to go and pushed through...got out having only paid for 1 drink, which i didn't finish...everything you hear about the sex district is true and worse!
Met an 11 strong band of aussie men on a stag do and becky and i rocked from bar to bar to club to restaurant along khaosan road! Did some tabletop dancing in my glow in the dark hotpants courtesy of the full moon party naturally! Can't keep me off those tables!
Signing out for now...Chiang Mai update next!
Iona xx
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