Day 18

Luckily as i had definitely not been out the night before i was able to get up early and go out to do the city.

We took the sky train to the Grand Palace which was amazing. If only "cash my gold" could see it. I also saw the emerald Buddha and couldn't really see what all the fuss was about, it was tiny but apparently its all about national pride.

Then we went to Wat Pho which was pretty incredible, especially the colossal Buddha. Unfortunately i had forgotten my camera so we decided to go back and get it so i could take some photos. When we tried to re-enter they tried to make us buy a new ticket for roughly $14 which we didn't want to do so i don't have any photos of either of them. Here is a link to Google images which will have far better photos than i could have taken

Grand Palace: http://www.Google.co.th/search?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&biw=1366&bih=613&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=grand+palace+bangkok&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=


Wat Pho: http://www.Google.co.th/search?q=wat%20pho%20bangkok&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1366&bih=613


Afterwards we decided to check out the huge mall (MBK) which is ridiculous, i don't think there is anything in the world you cant buy in there. We ate in the special food court place which was really cool. You were given a card when you entered and the whatever you buy you just swipe the card and then pay at the end. There were loads of different stalls each representing a different country and their types of dishes. There was almost too much choice, in the end i went for pita bread and humus, special thai fried rice and a couple of meat skewers. A weird combination but it was soo good. We then found out that we get free iced teas just for being foreign, bonus! Absolutely stuffed we decided to chill out and go to the cinema on the 8th floor. We watch Thor for about 2pounds (instead of the ridiculous amounts you pay in england) which was really good.

On the way back we got caught in the most horrendous rain ever. We were absolutely soaked in about 10 seconds, it was nuts!

In the evening we got some street food from outside our hostel, BBQ'd beef and pork with rice and loads of really really hot chilli sauce (i think i've lost all my taste buds for ever).

At the hostel the girl who worked at reception said she'd take us out and show us a really good club which was cool. We played some drinking games which was really fun as we had a different person from every continent  in the world so there were loads i hadn't played before.

After constant delays while the reception waited to get off work we all went to the club. She told us it was really cheap to buy spirits by the bottle for the table (it was even cheaper than we could get them in the 7-11) and a good night was had by all.


Hopefully by the time you read this post there will be some odds and sods of photos on facebook. I've had some free time today so i've uploaded all the pics on my camera which are kinda of a mish-mash as i've been deleting some as i go as i've run out of space but i rarely deleted from the front, i just deleted random ones (as i have them all backed up) so there not in a great order and theres chunks missing but you'll get the idea.