Breakfast was taken street style, consisiting of banana pancake (with drizzled condensed milk), coconut shapes, iced coffee and fresh mandarin juice. after checking out we headed for an all over body masage at a local establishment. This was more like an intensive stretch than anything else (ie quite painful at times) but relaxing overall. We stocked up on food and headed for our first train (BKK to Butterworth). This left at 1445 and was scheduled to take about ...

We'd decided to do some sightseeing on our short stay in BKK, so had booked to be picked up at 0630 to go and see the floating market about 100km out of town. By 0800 we'd progresed as far as picking up the rest of the punters on our bus. When we got to the market it was a bit of a dissapointment - on the way our 'guide' (not a great source of illumination) had told us that the locals didn't use it any more and that it was basically for touris...

We caught a taxi to the border town of Poipet, and before long we were thundering along a Thai road (dual carrigaeway!) towards the bus terminal. After stocking up on fruit, iced coffee and Leo beer our bus sped towards Bangkok (BKK). The entertainemnt had already stepped up a gear compared to Cambodia - karaoke was banished in favour of futuristic kung fu battles featuring wizards and warriors. The body count was quite impresive. At the northern bus terminal, ta...