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For breakfast we tried what we thought was grilled frog, but then realised that it wasn't. To this day we still don't know what we ate. Guess it's more exciting that way, to never know. Our mission of the day was to sort our Vietnamese visas at the Vietnamese Embassy. We bobbled up to a nearby Tuktuk driver and asked about getting two for the six of us. The driver insisted we could all fit in one tiny tuktuk. Hanging on for dear life, quite literally, and with the company of a cheeky, no teeth daredevil tuktuk driver, we made it. Visas for Vietnam, bam, mission accomplished. Returned home and had a look around Chinatown. I never thought I'd see a motorbike on a pavement. But apparently in Bangkok that's legit.
Next we went to Khao San Road, which is a street rammed with market stalls and food carts. All day we were approached by many a Thai, asking if we wanted "ping pong", a tuktuk ride to the ping pong sex show (creepy old Thai men popping their lips to make a ping pong noise). MAI CHAI, MAI CHAI! We must have said no a hundred times. A cute little lady approached Ben and Isaac and asked (mimed) if they were married, in love and or were gonna have sex. It was the funniest thing. Bisaac (Ben and Isaac - Bisaac became their new name) got all embarrassed.
Rolled into a bar and got some cocktails! I got a Mai Thai and a mango daiquiri, so delicious. During our stay at the bar, it suddenly became apparent that all the Thai waiters were gathering around looking worried. They all ran to the umbrellas and started putting them up over the benches outside, as they were doing so it started to rain! Psychic Thais!
Carried on checking out Khao San and one of the stalls had a mixture of fried bugs. Of course we were game for new experiences. We were keen to try a ginormous cockroach which we had seen earlier, but they were all sold out, so we settled for a nice mix of grasshoppers, frog, crickets and silk worms. Crunchy! Sam was disgusted by my enthusiasm towards the creatures but even had a go on a little grasshopper himself, until he retched and couldn't quite swallow it. Then we strolled upon a foot massage place, which had the fish that clean your toes. It was definitely the most ticklish moment of my life. Thought it would get easier but just kept wriggling for the full ten minutes.
With the boys wanting to go to the ping pong show for jokes (or reals), they grabbed a tuktuk and went on their way, not realising what they had let themselves in for. Meanwhile Jessie, Nic and me went on home. We got ridiculously lost walking back, but luckily with Nicolas good navigation stress skills we made it back to the hotel after a faff. Chilling in the hotel, a traumatised Sam came back not long after and tells us the ping pong show was utterly disturbing and that they left after five minutes.
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