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After
a 3 hour journey back down to Chaing Mai we
caught another night train, this time it only cost
about 5 pounds each... we were in a carriage with no
air conditioning, the windows were open, in the middle
of a malaria area quite worrying especially as neither
Paul or I had taken any malaria tablets... (hey blame
my doctor! she said it would be ok!!)... it was
extremely noisy and bumpy, i found the whole
experience hilarious for the first half hour, then the
ear plugs came out... thank god Paul nicked (err
borrowed) them from BAE!! :)
This time the train journey took nearly 14 hours and
without sleep we were both pretty grumpy :) then from
Bangkok station caught a cab (the driver obviously was
not from Bangkok as after 30 mins of driving around,
he explained he didnt know where the Bus station was
and dropped us at a mono rail station) we then managed
to work out the way to the bus station and caught one
to Pattaya...
Nearly 3 hours later we arrived in Pattaya, first
impressions were "oh my god, its blackpool with
sunshine!! but with Germans instead of scousers!" so
we moved on south to Jomtien, a more relaxful resort.
Pattaya is the main holiday resort in Thailand where
people from all over Europe, Middle East and Asia go
for wine, women (some look like women, but are men)
sea, and sun.
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Jomtien is more of an up and coming
resort which is still not fully developed, which for
us was the ideal place to relax for a week or so after
a hard 2 weeks of trekking... (we needed a holiday! :) We stayed in
a place called the Surf Beach hotel which was very reasonable
and had an excellent bar and restaurant.
Our tans are coming on, but the beer is a bit more
expensive here (1.20 pound for a large bottle of beer!
hey we were paying half that up north!).
We have noticed that in Thailand there are a huge number
of street sellers who usually have a moped or motorbike with
a huge side car attached. They tend to sell anything from
hot, fresh food to cuddly toys and they packed them as
full as they possibly could. We gave them the name of "Sideshow Bob's" (a
reference from the Simpsons).
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