I am doing this post from my phone so expect many mistakes!
Continuing from Hanoi and arriving in Bangkok! We arrived in the early hours so made our way to the departures in Bangkok airport in an effort to not be scammed by taxi drivers. We managed to get a very fast taxi driver for actually a very good price! Obviously by this point we are becoming decent at this travelling thing...
When we arrive at Khao San it was still very busy and bustling despite being about 3 am! We found a decent room and went straight to bed!
We got up quite early (for us) and decided to try and see Harry Potter! We went to Siam Paragon, which is basically a very expensive mall with a lot of high end brands in it! Only window shopping happened for us here! We saw HP that evening at an Imax in the best seats available and loved it!
The start of the day we went to apply for our visas for India. We researched it would take 5 days to process so we had to go in Monday and pick up Friday, a bit inconvenient because we didn't really want to be in Bangkok too long! Spent a lot of the day uploading lots of photos (eventually the staff here would actually recognise us here). The evening somehow ended up with Imogen drinking 3 buckets (very very very etc strong cocktail) and I had beer and sips of the buckets. We ended up absolutely smashed within an hour so went back to the hotel early and ended up pretty poorly! The next day not much happened thanks to the wonders of hangovers.
The next day we adventured out a bit and found the taxi boat pier and did a small sight seeing tour round Bangkok. Our first stop was the Grand Palace, where outside a scammer told us we wouldn't be allowed in because Imogen had flip flops on and it was closed anyway. He did this in front of a sign saying "Beware of wily strangers"! The palace was stunning and Imogen took loads of pictures! The next stop was the Reclining Buddha, which was way bigger than we thought it would be but still amazing. Last stop was Wat Arun, which was beautiful but came with loads of stairs to climb! For lunch on this day we had a small bowl of fried quails' eggs from a street vendor which were actually really nice and perfectly cooked! At the end of the long day we got an hour long foot massage with a free (very painful) back, neck and shoulder massage.
The next day we planned to go to Ayuthaya. I had an amazing plan to save us money which involved taking a taxi boat to the metro and then the metro to the underground to the train station. This ended up taking absolutely ages and costing double what a taxi would anyway! Oops!
Once we arrived in Ayuthaya, we had food tyhen rented some bikes to go around and see the temples and things. We actually managed to sort of find our way around to the main temples despite the very scary traffic!
The next day was the day we picked up our visas for India. We started the day with a trip to MBK to buy some bags on behalf of Mad. Imogen did her best ever bit of haggling to get the price down from 9000THB to 4500THB! It took a while but very impressive! We went to the embassy to pick up our visas, Imogen's was ready when we were first called up but my passport hadn't arrived back yet so we had to wait an hour or so for mine to arrive.
The next day we got a 5 hour long 3rd class train to Aranyaprathet and arrived to an army of tuk tuk drivers! We got out first ever tuk tuk to a hotel and got an early night ready for the border crossing into Cambodia the next day!
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