Joe and Lou's Travel Blog

I am waiting for Tim to get ready for breakfast so I will write some more here. After Tim got up yesterday we headed to Kho San road. This is the main backpacker hang out in Bangkok. The whole road is blocked off and is one big market. There is a bureau de change, police and taxi rank at the entrance to the street. There are many stores and stalls selling clothes, bags and ninja stars! There are also many bars, all paying English Premiership football games. We got ourselves some Phad Thai prepared by a street vendor in-front of us.

While we were walking around a woman approached us and asked us where we were from. By the way she was dressed we knew she wasn't a prostitute so we started talking to her, albeit wearily. She said she worked (I think) in a convenience store up the street and her English was very good. She told us that it was not wise to go to Railay without a booking as it is Valentines day soon and there will be many people on holiday there. She said we should go to the Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT) and book our accommodation there. She even wrote down the address for us in Thai to give to the tuk-tuk driver. This was our first tuk-tuk experience and quite fun, our driver liked to rev his engine a lot. So we booked our accommodation and took a tuk-tuk back.

We did some more walking around Kho San and a little shopping. We did the obligatory haggling but the prices were very cheap anyway. After a beer we were pretty had it and I was not confident of finding our way back to the guesthouse if I got drunk.

Today we fly to Railay so not sure when I will blog next.