Current Mood: Happy

Yesterday was spent fighting the tuk-tuk drivers to take us to temples, they insist they are closed because of buddhist holidays and try to take you to factory outlets instead (if they do they get free petrol!), but we were warned to this before we came here and so far have managed to avoid any said shops.  They offer you prices of 20Baht (about 35p) to take you where you want to go and when you say that you don’t want to go to a factory, they say 150 Baht :-).

We saw the reclining buddha yesterday which is huge – 45 metres in length and about 6-8 metres high and covered in some kind of gold.  Will put some pictures up when I find a quicker internet cafe.

We then proceeded to the Grand State Tower hotel for an Alfresco Meal on the 64th floor, this was truly amazing and an experience I won’t forget – meals consisted of sea food, red and white meat all served up in a way that would make even Gordon Ramsey swear more than usual (in a good way!).

Today, we have chilled and been taking it easy – this morning Em and I went back down the Khao San Road to see what it was like in the day and actually really enjoyed it, you don’t get hit by the touts and the market stalls are plenty and varied.  Then was a visit to the pool to relax.

This afternoon we visited MBK which is a huge shopping mall selling cheap (in price!)knockoffs, fake DVD’s and massage chairs (weirdly!).  This was a bit of a manic place to be and the hustle and bustle is like London at rush hour on a tube train.  We were there a while though and Scatt and Alex managed to spend quite a bit of cash.

On the way home I got to do something I have wanted to try in a while – I took the bushtucker trial and ate a bug, well a worm to be precise and it was actually not that bad.  It was fried, so rather than taste of Chicken, it was instead a more protein packed version of Crispy Sea Weed…  ummmm, yummy!  Anyone wants one, I’ll bring a bag home for you ;)

Tomorrow we are off to Koh Yao Noi for a few days and then moving onto the other islands, not sure if I’ll be able to update this there, but am keeping a journal so will update when the internet is next available. 

Thanks to those who have sent me emails, it’s really nice to hear whats going on there.

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