After a crazy minibus ride we arrived in Bangkok. We were dropped off near the Kao San Road which was on the other side of town to where we were staying. We decided to walk to the nearest skytrain station as it didn't look too far on the map. An hour and a half later we realised it was, we finally made it to the sky train and jumped on and headed to our apartment for christmas which we had booked with our friends from home, Olly and Sophie. They weren't arriving ...

From Khao Yai National Park our next destination was Kanchanaburi home to the bridge over the river Kwai which you may have heard of as it is a famous book title that was made into a film. Unfortunately all the transport centres out of Bangkok, this meant going back to Bangkok for the third time. We decided to get the train again, and decided to go for the cheapest seats, 3rd class unreserved. The journey took about 4 hours and was pretty stuffy as the window by ...

From Ayutthaya we took the train to Pak Chong, a small town near the Khao Yai National Park. We had booked in to a guesthouse that organised tours in and around the park. Our first tour was in the afternoon shortly after we arrived. We jumped in the back of a sawngthaew, (basically a pick up truck with bench seats in the back) and headed to a natural spring. The water has filtered through the limestone and is as clear as tap water, it naturally fills up from th...

After our eggy bread breakfast we took a bus to Ayutthaya which was once the capital of Thailand; mostly destroyed by the Burmese it has many ruins to explore. As our bus was heading to Bangkok, we got dropped off at the side of the motorway. They have motorbike taxis everywhere here but we didn't fancy our chances on the back of a motorbike with our bags on. Luckily the bike drivers had a pickup truck so they gave us a lift in this. We arrived at Tony's guesthou...

From Nong Khai we caught a bus to Udon Thani to catch another bus to Phitsanulok. Once we arrived took a tuk tuk to a cheap hotel we found in our book. At first the rooms didn't seem as cheap as they were described. You cannot haggle at hotels in Thailand like you can in India. We politely asked if he had any cheaper rooms and he showed us the information for the singles rooms. It said "maximum of 2 people" so we thought we would try it out; it was only 250 baht,...