After about a 15 hour journey from Auckland I arrived in Bangkok. I was expecting it to be the most mental place ever but I was pleasantly surprised. I jumped in one of the many taxis that wait outside the airport to catch out any unsuspecting tourist and charge them a shed load of casheroony to get to your hotel. Luckily I had met so many people who had already done Thailand so I was well prepared.

I manage to get to the hotel where I was meeting Laura at around 3am, I was a bit shattered and hadnt got a clue what time it was or what going on!

Lisa, who is a friend of a friend back home was meeting us there and so was one of laura's friends. Amy was only going to be in Bangkok for one day so we decided to make the most of it. We got a tuk tuk around the city and stopped at various temples but the high loght has got to be The Grand Palace...for more than one reason... We had thought that at the temple we would be able to borrow a robe of some sort as you cannot go in showing your shoulders or your knees...we were wrong...so so wrong! As we couldnt hire or borrow a robe of some sort we had to rent the most lairiest, mismatching, horrendously embarassing items of clothing. My outfit consisted of a dodgey looking floral shirt and a weird black and white sarong. The 4 of us looked like a rainbow had projectile vomited on us. It was hilarious! It think people were slightly bemused by out attire but it was so funny we couldnt help but take the piss out of ourselves!

The best thing about Bangkok was definitely eating from the food stalls on the streets. You could get Pad Thai for 20 Baht, amazing corn on the cob, fresh fruit and all sorts..I also think it's cleaner than a lot of the restaurants!

One of our other days we went to the floating market followed by the Tiger Temple. The floating market was something I had been looking forward to for a long time and although it was really fantastic to see and go on the boat and stuff it was a bit of a dissappointment as I didnt realise how touristic it was going to be... I know I am a bit naive to think that Thailand isnt over run by tourism, but you could tell that it has slightly ruined the traditional element of the world famous market.

The Tiger Temple was pretty much out of this world...The first ones we saw and stroked were the cubs... they were all of different ages and sizes and were all so playful. Got some amazing pictures! The bigger ones were another story. They told us that they are exercised loads and then fed before tourists are allowed to visit but I am not so sure whether they are also drugged. These animals are bloody huge and when I look at my pictures I think I realise how dangerous visiting the place was! The annoying thing about going there was that when you see the big tigers you are whisked around them like the speed of lightening whereas with the little ones you could easily sit and play with them for a while.

We also visted the Bridge across the River Kwae. It was something special with some spectacular scenery. It's the famous Burma-Thailand bridge where loads of people died trying to build it during the war.

We popped to the huge MBK shopping centre but we thought it was pretty pants so we jumped in a taxi back to the hotel and the taxi driver quickly became obssessed with Lisa. He got his mobile out and was taking pictures of us...quite obviously Lisa was unsettled by this so I gave her my sunglasses to try and hide from him...the funniest bit by far was when he set one of the pictures as a background screensaver on his phone! At that point we all found it hilarious, even Lisa!

The other s***e thing that happend in Bangkok was that my debit card was swallowed by an atm....oooh s***e...what to do??!

We left on the overnight bus to Chiang Mai.....13 hours of breaking down and being uncomfortable...loved it so much!

I'm going to miss Khao San Road!!!!!!!