Thailand: Bangkok

Border crossing  into Thailand was super simple and then we endured the worst minibus driving ever on the road to Bangkok, it was mental.  I think we spent most of our journey on the wrong side of the road or swerving around the smallest holes.

We were glad to get to the biggest city so far in one piece.  We checked into our hotel and planned the next couple of days in Bangkok.

The next day was probably the biggest shopping day I have ever experienced in my life!  We headed out to the biggest market I have ever seen which sold a variety of things including animals. Unfortunately we were pretty disappointed with the quality of most of the products but we did buy some of our best smoothies yet, which were gigantic!  Afterwards we headed to another crazy indoor market, which all the fakes you could get your hands on (but poor quality again), then were amazed at the craziness of the Christmas decorations/festivities around the main shopping centres.

The best egg wrapped pad thai 

The following day we headed into the old town to check out Wat Pho's huge golden reclining Buddha. We then headed back towards the skytrain where we got hopelessly lost in Chinatown.  After wandering around in the heat of Bangkok for hours we decided to spend the evening watching The Hobbit in probably the best cinema we'd ever been too.  The seats were reclining and they even had sofas at the back.



I'll also add here that we returned to Bangkok 3 times before heading up north for the next stage of our journey.  One of nights we spent here I took Rosie to Flowhouse, which we also have in England but a lot more expensive.  The best way to describe it would be a sort of artificial wave generated by jetting 2 or 3 inches of water really fast over a soft matted small hill (a picture might be better...).  Rosie loved it and we spent a few hours surfing, listening to music, drinking cocktails, watching the pro riders and enjoying the atmosphere.