23 MayWe're up early packing and getting everything ready to make the early bus leaving at 09h20. A full English breakfast for myself and muesli and fruit for Leanne before we take a taxi to the bus station. We arrive at 09h15, but the bus has already left and the next one is only 09h40, which actually only leaves at 10h00 to Supanburi where we have to get on another bus going to Ayutthaya. We had hardly disembarked from the bus at Supanburi when a man came waivi...

22 May Up at 07h00 we have breakfast before heading to the bus station, there we wait for over an hour for the "every 20 minutes" bus to pick us up for Erawan Falls. At last the bus arrives, picks us up and drives 2 km onwards before stopping and trying to tell us that another one is on its way and will be there in 5 minutes. Confused but at least knowing that the bus will come as the driver is waiting with us. 5 minutes late we're on the new bus and ...

21 MayAfter sleeping on one of our top 10 mattresses of the past 45 days we start with some admin, we have washing to sort and hand in as well as cleaning our hiking shoes which we postponed for quite a while. After that we headed for the bridge of the river Kwai. This historic sight was where American and other foreign POW's were sent by the Japanese to work in labour camps mostly to construct the bridge over the river Kwai and the Hellfire pass which would late...

20 MayUp at 07h30, we packed the last few things, grabbed the suit and headed for a taxi, along the way we met our old driver. Initially we thought this was to our advantage but he informed every driver we asked to take us to TIT how long he had waited for us, in the end we took a taxi with a meter just to get away. Leannne got quite worked up about the fact that we had paid the driver extra the day before because he had taken us around the whole day, and now tod...

19 MayUp later than we anticipated, we headed to the busstop to go to the Grand palace and emerald Buddha Temple. Paying an excessive fee we gained access to the jewel of Bangkok. The Palace built by King Rama 1 in 1782 houses the royal residence, government buildings and a variety of temples and shrines. It covers an area of 218 000 m squared and is enclosed by four walls 1900 m in length. The temples are decorated with mother of pearl, paintings along the walls...