The Thai scenery was beautiful and again we came across agricultural flatlands, if you got bored with the scenery you could eye up the amazing birds. I am of course talking about the feathered kind and we saw Herons, Storks and Egrets amongst others I couldnt recognise. The farmers had a great way of scaring of the birds and rodents that may eat their crops, they wouldnt bother wasting time putting Worzel Gummidge scarecrows up but used gnarled bark from the bana...

Finally we got on board the train to bangkok..this time the carriages were Thai and much better designed than the previous ones we'd been on, good size seats and bunks, good windows and plenty of space. We were a bit tired and did nod off a few times. The northern malaysian landscape was more agriculural and we passed paddy field after paddy field. Occasionally we'd come across those magical mountains that look like they're giant termite hills and shoot straight ...