A monk checks his smart phone while waiting for the ferry in Bangkok
We’ve just spent our first couple of days in Bangkok. We’re seeing Bangkok in a few stages, using it as a spring board for other trips due to it’s convenient geographic location and free tourist visa.
A short video I made using nothing but my iPhone whilst we were in Railay, Thailand.
You can download Lightspeed, the app I used to take the videos here.
Music – ‘Bat Crazy’ by our talented friend James Hewitt, his EP is available here.
Sadly it’s almost time for us to leave Railay and tomorrow we will fly to Bangkok where we’ll finish up our time in Thailand and spend a couple of days preparing for Myanmar.
We haven’t really done a huge amount since the last blog. It’s been a very relaxing time indeed.
Where we are in the rainforest, we’ve been able to do quite a lot of wildlife watching. There have been 2 kinds of monkeys, lots of tiny birds, a humming bird, a snake, lizards, a water monitor, butterflies, fish leaping out of the water, a bright green jumping spider, bats and frogs.
A very naughty monkey near Phranang Beach
So we’ve been off to a bit of a rocky start. After spending 3 days getting to Railay I very quickly ended up with food poisoning, as seems to be tradition for me in Thailand. It started at about 8pm on New Years Eve when I felt a bit off colour and thought I needed a lie down. I’ll spare you the gory details but to say that over the next 36 hours or so my body did what it felt it needed to do to get rid of the poison.
The prime suspect is some chicken that I had eaten around 24 hours before it started. In hindsight, why had I eaten meat here? Whilst Railay is technically mainland, it is cut off by cliffs and thick forest. There is no farming here so meat products need to be transported here by boat. We’re not talking commercial, refrigerated boat either, but open, wooden, ‘longtail’ boat, as pictured below.
Phranang Beach
It only took a day in Thailand to realise I had missed an important category for the blog. These will be the first of many WTF’s I’m sure.
This sticker was in the back of our taxi from Bangkok airport. There were no topless women in there, so I’m not entirely sure what this is about.
