Dirty, dynamic, wild and sweaty.

Bangkok honestly never sleeps. The traffic is a constant rush of Tuk Tuks, taxis and scooters. Street vendors line the pavements and entice you over with their weird and wonderful smelling foods. The food is so cheap and I have even found a new love for beer.

We took a locals river bus down the Chao Phraya to China town. The water was brown choppy and sprayed us in the face as we pushed down the river. Transport is dirt cheap!

China town was an interesting mix of pungent smells, rats running along side you on the pavement and street after street of shops, stalls and vendors selling pretty much anything and everything.

We met up with friends Dave and Dagmara just of Khao San road, grabbed a bite to eat and shared travel stories (of which they had much more being on day 60 and us on day 3). We stayed out til 5:30am partying with them and other travellers.

Over the course of the next few days we visited the Grand Palace and a lot of other temples in Bangkok, had a chilled day at Lumphini park, checked out the massive malls at Siam square and drank a good few bottles of Chang and buckets of vodka red bull.

The street food is amazing and so cheap! Loved the Thai Green curry and Pad Thai!

We chose to take public transport as often as we could because taxis and tuktuks would hike up their prices as soon as they saw a white person with a backpack. Many taxi drivers refuse to put their meters on even though they have to by law.

By day 5 we were definitely ready to move on from the city that never sleeps. So we hoped on a sleeper train to Chiang Mai!