Happy new year! AKA getting wet at songkran
Wow the past 3 days (well 4 if you count my day off to recover from an atrocious hangover) have been mental not only did we spend 1 day coming back from the islands due to our phuket to singapore jaunt we have been absolutely soaked at the Songkran festival. What started off as a water blessing has turned into an all out water war with flour bombs and all sorts. We started getting into the spirit of things after leaving Koh Lanta - it was a great 5 days on the island doing absolutely nothing but going to the 7-11 for crates of beer! Leaving however was a true soaking being picked up in a flatbed truck we might as well have had targets painted on us as soak the tourists became the proffesion of choice - by the time we reached the boat we were piss wet through. Thankfully lying on boats for 3 hours allowed us to dry off by the time we got to Phuket we were in a mini bus and safely deliverd to our hostel - well not actually our hostel as these things go in thailand but one close enough for us to walk without harm to.
Next up we went early in the morning to phuket airport paid an extortionate 1000 baht departure tax for not actually leave the country (but as we were flying via singapore technically we did! but try telling thai officials that we want to pay the cheap 50 baht departure tax as we were flying to bangkok english suddenly became marshan but never mind) We arrived in bangkok thinking that maybe we had missed the rest of the festival ha not likely as soon as we approached the monument we realised all the roads were closed around koh san and we were going to have to walk with our bags for about 30 minutes through one of the most debauched festivals I've ever encountered....the thais certainly know how to party and we arrived conga line fasion to our hostel dumped our bags (with perfect flour hand prints on) and dissapeared to our room to emerge seconds later to the CD shop (our fave little bar/ funky music hangout) to get pretty much annihilated a quick jaunt out to a street party reveiled quite some fun too - the only downside was when the police show up battons in hand to break up the party and pure fear takes over as we surged away from the scene of the 'crime' so back to the CD shop it was - and who would we spot on arrival - helen and dave...super...the next day we bezzed around in a tuk tuk (no windows so getting proper wet!) saw more festivities in Pathpong and met helen and daves mates from home - then back to Rambutri to the shop again and even some carpet drinking action into the small hours. At 5:00am we retired - on awaking at 2:00pm i can only quote withnail and say a pig had shat in my head. Ouch. So after a day off here I am and its off to japan tommorow! bonkers...probably wont e-mail then so I will post some photos in a tick and write again when I get home.
Next up we went early in the morning to phuket airport paid an extortionate 1000 baht departure tax for not actually leave the country (but as we were flying via singapore technically we did! but try telling thai officials that we want to pay the cheap 50 baht departure tax as we were flying to bangkok english suddenly became marshan but never mind) We arrived in bangkok thinking that maybe we had missed the rest of the festival ha not likely as soon as we approached the monument we realised all the roads were closed around koh san and we were going to have to walk with our bags for about 30 minutes through one of the most debauched festivals I've ever encountered....the thais certainly know how to party and we arrived conga line fasion to our hostel dumped our bags (with perfect flour hand prints on) and dissapeared to our room to emerge seconds later to the CD shop (our fave little bar/ funky music hangout) to get pretty much annihilated a quick jaunt out to a street party reveiled quite some fun too - the only downside was when the police show up battons in hand to break up the party and pure fear takes over as we surged away from the scene of the 'crime' so back to the CD shop it was - and who would we spot on arrival - helen and dave...super...the next day we bezzed around in a tuk tuk (no windows so getting proper wet!) saw more festivities in Pathpong and met helen and daves mates from home - then back to Rambutri to the shop again and even some carpet drinking action into the small hours. At 5:00am we retired - on awaking at 2:00pm i can only quote withnail and say a pig had shat in my head. Ouch. So after a day off here I am and its off to japan tommorow! bonkers...probably wont e-mail then so I will post some photos in a tick and write again when I get home.
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