Bangkok

Well it was bye to Koh Samui bright and early. Our hotel drove us to the airport for an expensive fee and we were off to Bangkok. The flight was only about 1hr so pretty short. When we got to Bangkok we got a taxi to the hotel and it was pink! I was very excited! Anyway for some stupid reason I booked a hostel and it is very expensive the most we have paid anywhere except Koh Samui and it isn’t very good! Anyway it will do, its clean just very plain for the price we are paying. Anyway we had to wait like 2 ½ hrs before they would let us check in which was ridiculous but we just sat on the couch and vegged. We had a little rest once we got our room then headed to a huge shopping centre/market across the road. It is the craziest place. We didn’t buy anything though! We had some dinner and then headed back to the hotel as I was sick AGAIN! After a short rest we headed into Patpong Night Bazaar, another market selling fake everything! It is also one of the red light districts in Bangkok and we were constantly harassed into coming into one of the bars to see a ping pong show. We eventually said ok to one after he assured us there was no cover charge and we just had to buy a beer each for 100 baht. We went in and got our beer and we were swamped by girls in bikinis massaging us and talking to us and bringing drinks over and cheersing us. Then the drinks piled up in front of us and after we told them to stop another scary lady came over with the bill for our drinks and instead of the 200 baht we were told for our two beers the bill was 2200 baht! We cracked the shits and after a short argument with them we stormed out with our almost full beers and left 200 baht for them! We didn’t see any ping pong balls! A few shooting balloons and some bday candles being blown out but our Bangkok Ping Pong Show experience only lasted a disappointing 5 minutes. After that we were not game to try another place so we headed to Mc.D’s for a light snack and then got a Tuk Tuk back to near the hotel. We walked through more market stalls and some were just setting up at 10pm at night! Crazy place! Anyway we just booked a tour for our last day tomorrow and we are off to the Tiger Temple along with many other places so a big day ahead!

ps. sorry about the photo, we took about 4 photos today!