The Halfway Mark

On Tuesday night we arrived in Bangkok. Wow! What a place! We had been warned but it was still a shock after the peace of Laos! For one thing they've actually got proper motorways, even Vietnam didn't have those I had forgotton what they looked like! It's also strange seeing high rise buildings as even Ho Chi MInh and Phnom Penh didn't have those! Our Guesthouse is certainly not one of our favourites. The sign outsisde proudly states "K.S Guesthouse your home away from home!" That would be fine if you lived in a grubby hovel! It's not that bad though and all the basics are reasonably clean and we haven't seen a cockroach yet (unlike Cambodia, where we had to hunt one down that had crawled into our room and pummel it to death!)
There is just so much shopping on offer though, and we haven'y even been that far yet! We're not very far fron the Koh Sahn road, the famous tourist area where anything goes. We haven't been down there at night yet and I can't wait to see a ladyboy! Today we have been to the royal palace to see the emerald budda (he's not actually emerald just jade!), what I liked most about that was though is he gets different outfits for the differnt seasons! Then we walked to the big temple with the humungous reclining budda (he's gold and doesn't get new outfits, which I think is a bit mean) Just going to take it easy for the rest of the afternoon and escape the heat! Should be going on some trips this week, there are a few options so we'll write soon and let you know how it goes.

Bangkok, Thailand