30/03/09 Bangkok We get up late this morning and pack up some stuff to post home (yes people that does mean presents!) and then we go and grab some breakfast and spend a little time on the internet before we go off to find the post office. On our way back we take a little detour and find that the next street over from Khao San is really nice, shame we're leaving tomorrow! We just spend the rest of the day chilling out, eating, surfing the net and generally just ...

We get up around 7 becuase there's a bloody cockerel crowing outside our room and has been for the past 3 hours and get some bikes so we can cycle around the park, it's really beautiful this time in the morning, not to mention a bit cooler and the ruins are really amazing. We have a good roam around on our bikes but it's not too long before it's super hot so we take the last of our photos and head back to get osme breakfast shower and head back to Bangkok by bus....

23/03/09 We wake around 6am to get our bus for Flight of the Gibbon and some cable flying fun! There are two Welsh people (he he) in our group of 8. We sign our lives away and then get kitted up. We have two guides North and some other guy, North is a bit of a joker and starts saying things like ‘The equipment is safe because it’s made by the French not Chinese’ although I think he might have been serious on that one, even though we all found it funny. But...

Bangkok 20/03/09 So we wake up semi early in Bangkok and decide to head to the Golden Mount, along the way we encounter the usual set of jokers telling us it's closed or we're going the wrong way but we are wise to their tricks and we head on. When we get there we have to walk up a lot of winding steps which is painful in the heat even at this time of the morning 08:30 but when we get to the top it is worth it not just for the brilliant view across the city but ...

Okay so we land in Bangkok and get a bus to Khao San Road, the backpackers central. We head down the main street it is busy and there are obviously a lot of ‘characters’ here, it feels like we’ve hit party central! We don’t get hounded there are just few people of a good tailor. We find our hostel and get a bare but clean room with shared bathroom, you can hear the street buzzin but we don’t mind. We head out and find a little place to eat, I have my fi...