After a 13 hour trip by road yesterday we've made it to the big smoke. And what a big smoke! We arrived at about 8:30pm last night and we're staying near Th Khao San.
Khao San is a freak-fest. We drank at a street bar, ate street food, saw an elephant, watched a million smashed teenagers get themselves into trouble. Just as we were warming up though, the party ended - 1am curfew. The place we've shacked up in is pretty basic and has drunk people yelling in the garden below 24/7. We've booked a resort style hotel that we'll be moving to after breakfast this morning - one final indulgence before trekking into Cambodia, which everyone assures me is not filled with a plethora of 5 star spa resorts.
Ko Phangan broke me - I don't know if I'm keen to go again. It really is a place that caters only for the party crowd, so all accomodation is basic, smelly, un-air-conditioned and on the most fucking annoying version of thai time you can imagine - getting something to eat requires the host of the place you're staying in to finish his camberwell sized carrot and sober up enough to cook something you didn't ask for. Blah...
Gotta run - will tap out something more comprehensive with photos sometime tomorrow. Ciao from Bangkok!
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An Indochine Editorial Adventure
- Beck Longbottom
- ...just a couple of crazy kids trying to find love and rejuvenation in the Land of Smiles. And maybe at the bottom of a pint of SangSom.
2 comments:
So you succumbed to the devil´s drink. And fair enough too. You would have been the subject of endless finger pointing ridicule with that annoying Nelson (from the Simpsons) sound bite in the back ground - haaa HAA! - if you had not. And now you and many many other Australians now have a Thai hangover story to share the next time you´re down the pub in Redfern. So it´s not all doom and gloom, that´s what I´m trying to say.
Us you ask? Well I was robbed two days ago in Salvador by some half crazed fuck who drew a finger across his throat as his opening pick up line, but now we´re on an island paradise some distance from Salvador, just like you were. The Portuguese word for island is ´ilha´, far easier than Thai it appears on paper, yes, but to understand or pronounce, maybe it´s just as hard.
Ciao ciao
Ah Lee that's terrible - I hope you guys have recovered from such a scary incident.
I feel like it's only a matter of time until something like that happens to us... but I thank my lucky stars for the healthy levels of Sydney skepticism that sends of major alarm bells anytime someone talks to us.
Hope you're both having an ace time in the islands :)
xxxx
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