With the sitaution between the government and the protestors (red-shirts), we were unsure about wether we should visit the capital, especially when our travel insurance may be void by entering Thailand. We didn't have any choice in the end because Danny has to pick up his new passport from Bangkok and plus, we understand how the media works and know they portray ten times worse then it actually is.
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We arrived in the afternoon and got a taxi straight to Kao San Rd, which every backpacker talks about, and is just full of bars, restaurants and markets. More importantly, we saw a subway and that was one of our first ventures once we found a place to stay. To say that Bagkok is in 'a state of emergency', there's still loads of foreigners getting pissed up without a worry in the world, but that was not on our itinerary. We spent the evening at a cinema, which was a taxi ride away. Taxi's are so cheap here and because some areas are more dangerous than others, this is probably the safest way to get around. We drove passed the embassy area (which is now closed), where the roads were blocked off and patrolled by the cops and then made our way to the cinema. We ended up watching Iron Man 2, which was good and then made our way back, stopping off at one fo the street stalls for some cheap but filling Pad Thai (our local food for the next few days).
The next day was dedicated to a muay thai (thai boxing) session at jitti's gym, which is one of the gyms we will probably train at when we come back in July. Training lasted for 3 hours and the heat made it feel like days. After all the padwork, stretching, technical work, bagwork, he makes you go for a run-HARDCORE., so we're proper looking forward to that when we come back HA. Our evening was spent chilling with Kristian (a mate from university) and his friends, who are all teaching english in the local area. They loved Thailand that much that they were trying to find every way possible to stay as long as possible.
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Sunday was pretty much a right off as we came in late from a night with Kristian, so we just booked our bus/boat ticket to Koh Tao, the first island of the three. We did plan to go and visit Sukhumvit, the modern upbeat area of Bangkok but with the riots moving closer to this area and some taxi's refusing to even go there, we decided it was time to watch another movie at the cinemas. Robin Hood it was and it was great finally hearing some sort of yorkshire accent, it was refreshing i tell theee!
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Our bus left at 8pm on Monday evening, so we filled our day by walking around Bangkok. We visited the Grande Palace and the huge, well decorated temple inside it's walls. This was probably visibly the nicest temple I have seen, with decorations of rich gold and silver twinkling at every angle. It didn't really hold any history but it was a masterpiece in it's own right and obviously expensive if it's in the king's quarters. After strolling around the palace, we thought we should do our bit and eat from a street stall, to show gratitude for what we have got lol. We got the boat across the river to go and see another temple and then made our way back. It turned out to be a very sweaty day and we still had little time to kill so we decided to play an hours worth of snooker, which we both improved on since we first played a couple of days ago. However our main priority was to leave Bangkok the way we came in, so we went for another subway and made our way for the bus to Koh Tao, but as we left, we saw crowds surrounding the big screens in the streets to see that the rebels were starting to burn buildings down after they refused to evacuate. What a perfect time to leave!
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