19th April 1992 Day 274

The Diary
Train back to Bangkok, express ferry across the river and then a hunt for The River Guest House. We eventually found it and then set off to try to get to Poste Restante by 1pm before it shut. Fate was against us, we missed it by minutes. But it took over an hour to get there - a foretaste of things to come.  

On the river

National monument

 We walked to the railway station to book tickets to Chiang Mai. The booking system didn't make sense at all so I circumvented it by sitting down at one of the desks. A couple of minutes later it was all sorted out. We then caught a 53 bus and by a very roundabout route eventually got to the Tourist Authority (TAT). They showed us where the Nepalese Embassy was and then Oz went back to relieve his bowels.

I went for a walk and discovered the kite flying at Sanam Luang and the traveller's paradise that is Khao San Road. More batik, tie dye, nose rings, second hand copies of shoestring, tin tin t-shirts, dodgy tapes, bad haircuts, more nose rings and bumbags than anywhere else in Asia. We had our evening meal there.


2012
A few Bangkok ditties: