Live From Khao San Road

After a fandangle with the airport transfer (thanks a lot STA yes time difference does mean you arrive the next day. Numnuts!) we were directed to no fewer than 4 different Sawasdee Bangkok Inns. At the fourth and final Sawasdee Institution it appeared that our booking no longer stood. As we were just about to walk out the door, miraculously an upgraded room was offered...Thankfully SBI turned out to be a charming little place with top jokes staff, with the added bonus of the strange noises that always accompanied our trip down the leading alleyway...is it a dog is it a man we just dont know....





Despite our (really quite drastic) lack of sleep and the hot and humid March weather we ventured out on to the notorious Khao San Road...
lined with cafes blaring out music, market traders, fairy lights and smells - not to mention tuk tuks, taxis and a variety of odd looking travellers. Frustratingly we soon discovered our backpacking gismos and gadgets could be bought for a fraction of the price... handy hint right there folks. Spent the first couple of days mouching about finding our feet in the bright lights of the big city and sampling what Bangkok had to offer. Top two had to be Chattuchat market - which, as the view from the skytrain showed, was HUGE, and beeing duped by a network of crafty tuk tukkers/ seemingly helpful and incrediably conincidental passers by. After an hours tour of 'temples' freqiuently punctated with convientinetly located shops/ travel agents, a hazy memory of the hostel's numerous signs warning agains such 'organised crime', came flooding back...



Though the travel agents tantrum when we decided to stop and think about the proposed itinary that he'd provided ("you are not princeses ...too young and inexperienced..) was rather amusing...we are yet to see the actual temples that are Bangkok's crowning glories...will keep you posted - it was time to leave.

so spur of the moment...perhaps a little faffing involved.. we found ourselves on our first of many coach rides; a bus to Kanchanaburi.