Skytrained it to the river again then longtail to the Grand Palace. You are supposed to dress appropriatley there so they borrowed me a pair of Ghandi Pants to where.
The Palace is amazing, alot shineyer and glittery than owt we saw in China. The whole place sparkles in the sun. We spent alot of time lookinmg for shade as it was canny hot. Even the spacious Ghandi Pants dont vent you that well!!
Got our photo taken by this woman monk, dressed all in white robes sporting a skin head.
We met up with Sophie on Khao San Road, she flew in this morning, Went for some food then got the longtail down to the reclining Budda. Which is a massive Golden Budda lying on its side chilling out. Its supposed to represent the highest state of peace before you dissolve into Karma or something like that. Didnt read the whole info board. BUT did see a statue of what I thought was the Hitcher from the Mighty Boosh. A fella pointed out that it was Marco Polo. Well I was close as the Hitcher has a Polo eye.
Went back to K S R and met up with the tall boys. Took them ages to arrive, they'd been stopped by a suit toute and Blue Adam and Tom paid 200 quid for a suit!!!!!!! They are leaving tomorrow and it needs to be made from scratch!!!
Went to a few bars and met up with the Brum lads.
We'd missed all the boats out of the backpacker area as it was late on (the main part of Bangkok has terrible transprot links)
We drinkenly got on a bus we thought would take us back to our hostel. After 45 minutes and a little help from a chap behind us we eventually arrived at our stop.
The buses have conductors, that rattle a long metal pringles tube full of cash and tickets!!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
What the heck are Gandhi pants? Didn't he famously wear a loin cloth?
ReplyDeleteAnd I think a female monk is usually called a nun...