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Cheers for the advice Joe. I was hoping to spend some time in Bangkok on the way out, but I had to change my travel plans, so I hope that I can book a day on the way back as I have just added a couple of days to the trip. I will see if I can travel to where you have suggested as it sounds right up my street![]()
i think it would be very much up your street. A great story I always tell from my time there is that my wife and I hired bikes and rode along a canal for an hour and a half towards a very strange temple we had read about, all along the way thai people living off the land would run up to us shouting David Beckham and Coca COla as the only two things they knew in english.
When we found the temple which was very bizzare, like an old fairground of odd sculptures called *** thawet (link) we had drank all of our water and were dying of thirst by the time we got there. We started wandering around looking for somewhere to get water and then this group of thai men who were working on fixing up the road where they lived called us over saying "water". They must have seen we were parched! Anyway they took us to their local store which was a tiny shed and the woman running it couldn't even say numbers in english so could only indicate with fingers. We bought 2litre bottles of water for 2 baht each (about 4p) whereas in the local 7 eleven etc we'd been paying 20 baht.
We sat round with them drinking our water and one of them spoke very good english and was asking all about our travels etc, was a great experience.
If you've had enough photography and want a rest whilst near bangkok, the island of ko samet is only about a 4 hour trip south and is a very petite and private place to just relax by the beach.
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