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After a sleepless night on the boiling, sweaty, noisy, kept the lights on all night 'sleeper' train we were told to get up at 5am - not too sure why as we weren't arriving in Bangkok till 6.30am...
When we finally arrived back in the city we made our way to the same guesthouse that we stayed in last time and couldn't wait to collapse in our air con room. This wasn't too happen as the room wouldnt be ready until 12pm. As it was 7am and we hadnt slept or washed for over 24 hours this was great to hear. But we were determined not to walk to a guesthouse 10 yards away and pay an extra 2quid for a night's stay, so we left our bags and decided to hang out in the capital for 5 hours.
The first hour was simply taken up by sitting on a step in the skytrain station cursing the fact that nothing was open at 7.30am. After that like zombies we walked up and down the platform of the station and with fingers crossed at 8.30 we headed back to the guesthouse on the off chance it was ready early...no. Hands clenched together, silently we walked up to an internet cafe where we stayed for another hour and then made our way to one of the huge air con shopping malls to again pass time. Barely able to walk anymore in the heat our room was at last ready at 11am where we crashed out and didnt surface for 3 hours!
Spent the rest of the afternoon and evening chilling in cafes before going for an early night as we were catching the train at 7.30am the next morning to Kanchanaburi.
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