Over the next few days, it just kept raining, and when I mean rain, it absolutly pelted it down. I couldnt belive I was buying an umberella in Thailand, it just didnt seem right, but it was the only way to still get out and not get as wet. I didnt really get to see as much of Bangkok as I wanted. The floating markets only seemed to be working on a saturday and sunday, the so called 'best' market to go to, as suggested by my guidebook, only opened on a weekend, a...

Bangkok. Finally I get to see the Big Apple of South East Asia. I managed to catch a bus from the train station to Khaosan Road, the famous backpacker central. What a wicked place. All of the sudden you feel very safe, without it being over the top touristy. At least not like Vang Viang. I like it a lot! Time to settle in and get my bearings. I was going to get a train or bus to Kanchanaburi, but all of the sudden that felt like a lot of effort. I had found a pl...

I arrived in Lopburi very tired at 6.30am. I didnt get much sleep on the train as I could only get a seat, not a sleeper. I went straight to a guesthouse from my guidebook to get a room and slept for a few hours. It was the biggest room so far, bigger than my bedroom back home even! Wicked! I decided i'd done enough walking about, all this moving about and major sight seeing stuff was wearing me out, so I got a bloke on a bike to take me around on a little tour....

I deceded to wait for a speedboat instead of the slowboat. The quicker I left the better. I waited until 1pm at the pier, and had to go and complain that I wanted to leave, I think they were waiting for more people to join the boat, luckily another boat arrived from Luang Prabang, that was heading for the Thai border, so I joined that! This is where I met some new friends, and Irish girl (I cant remember her name) and a Korean girl called 'Minjin'. As soon as I h...

I left Luang Prabang first thing in the morning to catch a speedboat. I could have caught the slow boat, which took 9 hrs to Pakbeng, and then another 9 hours to the Thai border, but it also cost half the price. I decided it wasnt worth it, at least not for the whole journey. And i'd heard a lot about the speedboats. My guidebook described them as 'surfboards with car engines on the back' and that they can be very dangerous. I decided I needed a little danger, i'...