After 2 days in Bangkok seeing gilded palaces and temples, waiting for our Vietnamese visas to process and attempting to avoid the hordes of touts on Khao San Rd where we mistakenly spent a night, it was time to leave the big city.
We left the heavy backpack filled with climbing gear with Mark’s friend [...]
January 31, 2010
Slow train to Aranyaprathet
January 31, 2010
Like so much chattle & freedom isn’t free (but it’s cheap and has good snorkelling)
We made it to Ko Tao on the night ‘ferry’. Sort of like a Chinatown bus the cargo boats to the gulf islands load cargo and people onto the triple decks. Thankfully it was only French, German and Danish farang backpackers like us that we slept next to and not chickens or goats on the [...]
