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right im in the South now beacchhhesss babby!! First stop Koh Samuii!! Staying on the edge of a beautiful beach not even the best one were gona see but i was gob smacked PALM TREES white sand clear sea ahhhhhh!! Got a free day today so decided to relax and lap up the sea sand and sun and what does it do for the first time in 4 and half months on the island!! bloody rain!!! haha! its sunny now thou but im about 20mins from my hotel in a town called chaweng the busier area of the island which is cool! Had lunch was a bit western....just a bit and had beans on toast tehe was sooooo good! how sad am I!
ok so quick update! Last time I blogged I had just arrived in Kanchanaburi!! Our accomodation was really nice we stay in these lil wooden bungalows on stilts over a river, we were really lucky and had a bungalow facing the river was lovely!! In the afternoon a boat picked us up from literally our front door and took us to the Prisioners of war museum, (POW) was quite interesting i didnt really know much about it, then we got back on our boat and speeded over to the war cemetry. One of the girls grandads was a prisioner of war who actually made it home so was well nice for her!! We then walked the Kwai bridge, the train still runs but u can walk the tracks and jump on the platforms on the side if the train comes. Didn't come when we were there but did afterwards. Wasn't fast though!
Next day we went to this 7 tiered waterfall, we didnt have time to climb to the top as it was 4 hours but we went to the 4th! You can swim at every level is sooo nice!!! We swam in 3rd and 4th tiers as the others were really busy! 3rd tier was beautiful clear water pool with a waterfall which i stood under, then we were diving off the rocks and getting nipped by the bloody fish they actually quite hurt lol! At the 4th tier there was a huge rock that people use as a slide so we all ran in climb up and slid down, then started to get more adventurous going backwards on our bellies and doing a train! 6 of us in the train 4 went down and me and courtney got left behind so we had to go after lol was funny thou! got it on video all the locals were loving it!! bloody english!! joking!! In the afternoon we headed to the Hell Fire Pass, linking to yesterday, prisioners of war slaved for months digging through these massive cliffs to provide enough room for the railway, so we walked along there listening to our audio sets which explained about their lives while working their. We then headed off to the train station to catch the train which actually runs along the railway built by the prisoners of war. We went to town for a local dinner which was really nice I had pad Thai again! with lots of spices!! yum! and then we walked 2 km for swensons ice-cream my new favourite icecream parlour, we keep hunting them down everywhere there amazing i cant say no!! lol
Next day we got our bus back to Bangkok around lunchtime and headed to the floating market one of Bangkoks highlights, we caught a boat which was oh my life the woobliest boat ever we were going down a canal and literally you know when u wooble and think ur gona fall but manage to save yourself lol it actually felt like that i dont think we were going to fall out but i was convinced we were haha! So that boat took us to the actually market and then we had to climb in to another boat which was even SMALLER!!! haha we all like dived out of the death boat at the same time and nearly capsized the Thai lady who was shouting one at a time one at a time lol bless her! but we survived and she rowed us round the floating markets which is basically a canal which u boat down and the market is on the banks is pretty cool! We then headed back to our hotel in Bangkok and got ready for our final dinner with our first tour group in the Sky Tower, tallest tower/hotel in Bangkok! was amazing 84 floors up to the rotating floor where we could see across the whole of the bright lighted city was amazing!! After that we went down to the 76th floor for a huge buffet dinner with all the food u can imagine and icecream! Was brilliant!!
24/08/08
Our final breakfast with our first group, We all still had the day in Bangkok before we met our next group in the eve and the others headed South for some R and R. So we headed on the Skytrain to the weekend market, absolutly MASSIVE, im so glad i didnt go alone i would probaly still be there now stuck in the middle hahaha!! In the Eve we met our new group nice bunch of people, I'm still the youngest though DAMIT! So we headed off to Koh San Road the busy area of Bangkok for some dinner.
25/08/08 Bangkok
First day with new group we spent the morning visiting the Grand Palace and Wat Po temples. Was such a hot day was hard work walking around in the heat and we were pleased to get a shower at the hotel before boarding yet another and final sleeper train to Surat Thani overnight!
26/08/08 - After another rocky night we arrived in Surat Thani and caught a bus then ferry which took us to our first Southern Thailand Island of Koh Samuii! We Visitied the Mumified monk which is actually a dead body in a glass case which has never decayed! Very random I have to say! They did give us free tescos water haha home sweet home! We then had lunch on the beach front was lovely to actually see the clear waters and white sand beaches!!! Our guide then couldnt wait to take us to Grandma and Grandpa rocks which I innocently thought would look like Grandma and Grandpa, but when we got there he pointed at a huge sticky up rock which was very simular to a willy, i will leave Grandma Rock for you to think about! lol! We then headed to our accompdation where we will be staying for 2 nights! Beautiful little bungalows on stilts about 10 ft from the beach front, the beach is soooo pretty!! Sand, sea and sun and palm trees plus not many people on it at all! BRILL! so a day and a half free to relax, so had a quick swim and sunbathe before dinner.
27/08/08 So today as i said earlier is a free day for sun sea and sand and it RAINS! so in Cheweng at the mo, will be heading back to resort soon as the sun is back out! Is nice to chill at the mo. Going to national park tomo to walk in the rainforests woo! Can't wait! So much more to tell but not enough time to type it all!
Hope all is well. Speak soon!!
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