BKK - - > NZ

We got our bus from Kanchanaburi and met an Irish guy called Mike and arranged to meet for drinks later on as this would probably be the last time we drink in a while :-(. We had a great night from what we can remember and woke up to find pictures of ourselves eating crickets and drinking more buckets than necessary...The next day we headed to the local shopping center were Mike picked up a camera for his travels and we wished we were starting again with him! We had tea that night and had an early one as the next day we were going to the biggest market in the world apparently! The following day the market was insane and the heat was almost unbearable but we managed to get a few bargains for NZ and some souvenirs. That night we met up with Mike again and the days were going faster than we'd wanted :-(. The next day we packed our bags and sorted our tickets then went the cinema to see the Avengers which was a surprisingly nice change of scenery. Once again the Thai patriotism surprised us by the whole cinema standing to the national anthem before the film started! That night we got the best sleep we could as the next days journey would be a hard one 3 trains and a bus to the airport. When we made it to the airport we checked our bags in hoping we would see them again in NZ! Our flights with Emirates were great we had to get a plane to Sydney then transfer on another one to Christchurch and both planes were empty giving us 4 seats each! :-D. Despite the flights we didn't get too much sleep and picked up our Hire car (which was the exact same as Gems back home) and done the two hour drive to Lake Tekapo which turned out to be a hard one! Didn't really help that when we got there there had been a power outage and they couldn't remember the last one they'd had in town! The whole place was in darkness so we got into our dark cold cabin beds and went straight to sleep!