15 AprilOne of our main reasons for staying in the mock capital was that the Thai Consulate was there. We got up, drank tea, ate toast with kaya (coconut, egg and butter type of jam - very nice) and headed to the consulate only to become drenched in the rain and having to put on the poncho we purchased in Jerantut - first time we've needed it. When we arrived at the consulate we were informed that it was close for the public holiday of Songkram festival (the wat...

14 AprilThe jungle train was an amazing experience we sat near a Chilean who had traveled much of South America, worked in India and was now backpacking South East Asia (SEA). Unfortunately our expected plans to travel South America were impeded in a sense due to him informing us that it was significantly more expensive to backpack or tour South America, which we thought was comparative to SEA.We continued the train ride with various photo opportunities, time to ...