Day 5 - Ramkamhaeng -> Pranakorn
After a bit of a late one last night we woke up and we had fifteen minutes to pack,wash,dress and check out of the Nasa Vegas. I had some spicy chilli pork noodles for breakfast (coz thats how they roll here) and Gem got a brew (suprsed?).(Yeah coz Ben thinks its totally normal to eat spicy chilli noodles first thing for breakfast!...weird)
Got the train to the closest station to the Kho San road then jumped a taxi with some friendly fella who was from Dubai. Had a wander round the market stalls and decided we needed to book something to do coz the whole eating loads....sleeping loads....and drinking all kinds wasnt really the plan!!
Got talkin to one of them "friendly strangers" who told us of the Thai governments new scheme of subsising local travel for tourists. We were wary and decided to jump a Tuk-tuk (government subsidised) advised by the friendly face. The tuk-tuk guy was super friendly he took us the tourist centre were we talked about how we wanted to get the bus to Chaing Mai and then she tried to get us to go on a 500 quid 10-day trip where four days of it we done f*** all! So we left after apologising about being skint.
When we got out the tuk-tuk fella was still there so we get back on and explain that we never bought anything which he seemed to be shocked about "I know another place " he said "very cheap". Next minute were goin down a side street which looked more like a jigger in Bootle and at the end of it was our next stop. We looked through the glass window to see 3 Thai men sitting in a row looking at us, the walls lined with lined in multi-coloured fabrics and mannequins with suits on. We realised the same stunt got pulled on us in Egypt, we grabbed our bags had a little argument, pushed some fat 5 year old kid off me who was pestering for money. Then we got back on the tuk tuk and take us back to the hotel and we'd pay him 100 baht. As we were leaving more people appeared with angry faces in the jigger and it looked like a good mve. We stopped at a shop got change give the tuk tuk driver 20 baht (40p) and walked off. After realising the con we nearly fell for we laughed and jumped a cab and went back to the hotel. Later on that night we walked down the street parralel to kho san road which was much more laid back and had VW campervans converted into bars! We had some nice food a few drinks then went back the hotel after a loooong day!
After a bit of a late one last night we woke up and we had fifteen minutes to pack,wash,dress and check out of the Nasa Vegas. I had some spicy chilli pork noodles for breakfast (coz thats how they roll here) and Gem got a brew (suprsed?).(Yeah coz Ben thinks its totally normal to eat spicy chilli noodles first thing for breakfast!...weird)
Got the train to the closest station to the Kho San road then jumped a taxi with some friendly fella who was from Dubai. Had a wander round the market stalls and decided we needed to book something to do coz the whole eating loads....sleeping loads....and drinking all kinds wasnt really the plan!!
Got talkin to one of them "friendly strangers" who told us of the Thai governments new scheme of subsising local travel for tourists. We were wary and decided to jump a Tuk-tuk (government subsidised) advised by the friendly face. The tuk-tuk guy was super friendly he took us the tourist centre were we talked about how we wanted to get the bus to Chaing Mai and then she tried to get us to go on a 500 quid 10-day trip where four days of it we done f*** all! So we left after apologising about being skint.
When we got out the tuk-tuk fella was still there so we get back on and explain that we never bought anything which he seemed to be shocked about "I know another place " he said "very cheap". Next minute were goin down a side street which looked more like a jigger in Bootle and at the end of it was our next stop. We looked through the glass window to see 3 Thai men sitting in a row looking at us, the walls lined with lined in multi-coloured fabrics and mannequins with suits on. We realised the same stunt got pulled on us in Egypt, we grabbed our bags had a little argument, pushed some fat 5 year old kid off me who was pestering for money. Then we got back on the tuk tuk and take us back to the hotel and we'd pay him 100 baht. As we were leaving more people appeared with angry faces in the jigger and it looked like a good mve. We stopped at a shop got change give the tuk tuk driver 20 baht (40p) and walked off. After realising the con we nearly fell for we laughed and jumped a cab and went back to the hotel. Later on that night we walked down the street parralel to kho san road which was much more laid back and had VW campervans converted into bars! We had some nice food a few drinks then went back the hotel after a loooong day!
Ya pair of whoppers I thought ya was street wise after Egypt pls be careful xxx mam xxx
ReplyDeleteyour pics are fab sounds like your having a ball so far!! be carefull xxxxx
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