1st June - Bangkok, Thailand
After about 3 days of travelling (8hours from Chitwan to Kathmandu, Flight to Delhi the next day, 12 hours in Delhi's visitor lounge as we couldn't be arsed risking our lives to get into town for a couple of hours sweaty kip in a dirty hotel, 5 hours to Hong Kong, 2 hours transit in Hong Kong - at least the loos were clean, 2 and a half hours to Bangkok) we arrived in warm and humid Thailand. Hurrah - Bangkok is fab!
After too many beers celebrating our safe arrival on the first night we visited the emabassies to sort visas for the next leg of travels - overland through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Streets are from our dreams as they're lined with food stalls smelling totally lush! - wahey! Can barely walk in a straight line as our toes keep curling in glee with every sniff we take! Brekky of noodle soup with fish balls doesn't sound that appealing but was bloody lovely - especially at 35p a pop!! Pol started off with a healthy lychee crush but soon caved in and got her own bowl of fishy soup! We're also back onto fresh fruit as everything is so good here - lychees the size of apricots, banans grilled with sesame seeds...yum... the next month and a half should be alright!!
Walked through miles of wholesale street markets selling everything you can imagine and more. Seem to have lingered around the ones focusing there trade on jewellry and flowery girly stuff - but we've also been allowed to have a quick look at the air compressors, ninja death stars and copy watches - 'same same good price for you sir!'.
Off for meditation and massages tomorrow to rid ourselves of the evil materialisiticness that seems to have suddenly come back to us.
After too many beers celebrating our safe arrival on the first night we visited the emabassies to sort visas for the next leg of travels - overland through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Streets are from our dreams as they're lined with food stalls smelling totally lush! - wahey! Can barely walk in a straight line as our toes keep curling in glee with every sniff we take! Brekky of noodle soup with fish balls doesn't sound that appealing but was bloody lovely - especially at 35p a pop!! Pol started off with a healthy lychee crush but soon caved in and got her own bowl of fishy soup! We're also back onto fresh fruit as everything is so good here - lychees the size of apricots, banans grilled with sesame seeds...yum... the next month and a half should be alright!!
Walked through miles of wholesale street markets selling everything you can imagine and more. Seem to have lingered around the ones focusing there trade on jewellry and flowery girly stuff - but we've also been allowed to have a quick look at the air compressors, ninja death stars and copy watches - 'same same good price for you sir!'.
Off for meditation and massages tomorrow to rid ourselves of the evil materialisiticness that seems to have suddenly come back to us.
posted by Polly and James at Thursday, June 02, 2005
2 Comments:
Glad to hear you've escaped the maoists and are now in paradise. Sent an E-Mail to pollyfoster@hotmail.com If it has changed could you let me know on mboast@ballsolutions.com
Don't forget there are cheaper, but nicer hotels in Brisbane and Canberra.
Mark
Really enjoying your tales from afar, interesting to see that many stories are food based. Sounds like you are having proper travelling experiences and having a lot of fun aswell. Hope it continues to go well.
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