Day 25 in the world of Sam and Dani: We left bangkok on a high, literally! Visited the Skytower which is the tallest building in Thailand (the height of 182 people stood on top of each other), and from the observation deck we were able to have cocktails and take in the amazing view of Bangkok at night. This is very different from that you would view in the day: hectic streets covered by a layer of smog. This view (and cocktail) meant that Bangkok was able to redeem itself as we were starting to dislike it up until now. Bangkok is very tourist orientated as we were aware and warned about before coming here, however no matter how much you prepare yourself you cant fully imagine what it will be like.

The first couple of nights we stayed in a very nice hostel, but the drawback of this was that it was out of the centre meaning that you had to get taxi's to and from most parts. Traffic in Bangkok is awful the majority of the time, so when we decided to go into the centre on our second evening with a couple of girls we'd met on the Queens birthday we were in for a shock! The thai's admire their Queen and people from all over the country travelled in for the day to celebrate (all wearing blue as this is the colour associated with Fridays and the Queen was born on a Friday), causing a normal 45 minute taxi journey to last 1 1/2hour before we got out and walked the rest of the way (another 30mins). They seem to have no sense when it comes to driving as there was grid lock all over the place with vehicles going in the wrong direction up roads!

Kohsan Road is where the tourists and travellors go, a street that is a mix between the strip in Magaluf and the West End in Ibiza, completely westernised. Although the constant pestering to buy something, eat somewhere or visit the notorious ping pong shows, Kohsan allows you to buy more or less anything you want for pennies, and allows you to get very drunk for very cheap! That is where we spent the last 2 nights in Bangkok, allowing us to mooch around and try some street food - yes we actually did it =)

Bangkok is where we also got our first experience of Tuk Tuks. We've been on a few journeys and each one has been very different, depending on the driver depends on whether you have a nice pleasant trip or hang on for dear life! Either way, bargaining is a must. Tuk tuk drivers try and blag you something rotten so always haggle.. One guy said he wanted 400 baht for a trip, we paid 80!

On our last night we were woken by a thunder storm, and when we say woken actually mean jumped as to what the noises were outseide, we have never heard anything like it! By the morning you couldnt tell anything had happened, the sun was beaming and it was as humid as ever. At the airport leaving for Phuket another storm started just as we were due to board the plane causing a delay. Flights involving Bangkok dont go well for us we're decided.. When we arrived at Brisbane airport for our transit flight to Melbourne we found out we weren't actually booked on a flight, then when we arrived for the connecting flight to Bangkok were told that we needed proof we were leaving Thailand within 30 days, so we had to book a random flight that we wouldn't use just so we could board the flight, fun fun fun!