Start Heading North...

Big Ol Buddha (maybe 10 stories tall)

Left Bangkok this morning working our way North eventually to the Thailand/Laos border and hill tribe communities and mountain/jungles.  Bangkok is fantastic, highly recommend, but just not too many days.  If you wanted to party your face off, you could get it done in Bangkok lets just say.


Highlights today---3rd class bus ride to next town Ayuthaya...(we were concerned at first but about 1.5 hrs- not bad at all really, fun countryside views) cost a whole $1.25 total (included both of us).  We grabbed a tuk tuk right out of the train station, paid him $15 bucks total- he took us to our hotel, we dropped off our gear and off exploring we went all day.  Our tuk tuk driver took us all over this city for about 4 hrs, acting as a chaufer/tour guide a bit, good deal for us and him.  Nice guy, just sight seeing, no shopping stops. 

• We had lunch at just a really picturesque floating restaurant on the river here.
• Christina and I got to feed and pet a Thai elephant (kind of like a wet vaccuum cleaner nosel)
• Did some more temple touring (headsup, we gotta lot of Buddha pictures coming)
• and then Christina got to pet and hold a baby tiger.
• Baby Tiger probably the highlight of the day, the little guy was a bit pissed off though, they woke him up from sleeping so she could hold him, but he settled down after they crammed a bottle in his mouth.  Christina was in heaven rubbing its little belly.

Busy travel day, lots of moving from place to place and "travelling".  We've seen a lot of Buddhas thats for sure.  Looking forward to some mountain trekking.  Glad to get out of Bangkok also.  It was amazing but about 4 days is all you want of that place....sensory overload :)


We'll throw the pics up tonight from our first 5 days in a slideshow.  Christina is handling picture management operations for the team.

We'll throw up a quick blog on what rocked and didn't rock about Bangkok also.

Tonight is a chill/hotel night with A/C (yeahhh), hot water shower (yeahhh), free wi-fi, and king size soft bed (1 night price - $14).  Pretty Lavish place you could say.  Amazing how happy I can be just to get a hot water shower.

It does appear prices are getting lower as we move on from the big city, which is true but almost hard to believe.
 

T&C, chillin at breakfast 1st day in Bangkok



Up next



we head further north to city called Sukhothai (recommended by our friends Ben and Deneree), then contuing up to Chaing Mai, where we'll stay for about 6-7 days, of which we'll do a 3-4 day "trek" through hill tribe communities in the mountainside and jungles, camp in bungalows with a guide type tour, ride elephants, see waterfalls, rice fields, etc. etc.