Monday 7 December I'm wide awake. There is music blaring. It's 1:30am. It's the other group. And they show no signs of letting up. Sigh. I get my ear plugs and it's virtually quiet again. The alarm at 5:40 is not very welcome. But we want to see the sunrise. We get ready and Malcolm sterilises some water. But the taste is so gross we don't use it. There are just 5 of us walking up the hill. Lots of rocks. The old fort on top where the king used to live. It's mo...

Sunday 6 December 4:30. It's early and it feels hard. We leave for the train station and arrive in good time. Which is good because the line of taxis and tok tok's is long and slow at the entry. Security is rather lax, but maybe because we are tourists. We wait on the platform for the train to arrive. The guide, navin negotiates it so we have two rows of seats together. We get water and juice, tea or coffee and a basic breakfast. It's a bit unusual for me and I ...

Saturday 5 December It's quite noisy in the night. We eventually drag ourselves out of bed. We FaceTime family while we pack up and I eat. We check out and we mention the hot water issue. The guy has something he spiels off. Off we head to our new hotel. It's very close actually. A man joins us and tries to sell us a ride. He tries to convince us all the way to the hotel. They just don't know how to take a 'no thank you'. We are able to check in and the hotelie...

Friday 4 December The drums come back. I'm wide awake and my stomach is sore. Must be that very very hot wrap. I get my ear plugs and eventually fall asleep. As soon as I'm up my stomach is sore again. The toilet and I are well aquatinted. We wait around for the phone call from the embassy. It doesn't come. I eat some of Malcolm's left over noodles. Eventually Malcolm goes and calls the embassy from reception. Turns out there was no problem, the lady at the des...

Thursday 3 December Sleep is so good. I could do with more. We get ready and head down stairs to get breakfast and printing done. There is no mention of breakfast and we spend about an hour trying to get the printers to work. Eventually we give up and go to a store down the road where it works smoothly. We continue on our way to the metro station and figure which tickets to buy. We get a 3 day pass. We have to go through security first- bags through a scanner an...