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 ...