Alrighty then, we are currently in Bangkok awaiting our bus outta here, however for forms sake i must recap the previous few days. It was gonna be pretty boring for you so I will do a quick summary:
We have spent the last few days drifting down a river stopping at bars getting extremely pished, jumping off very high platforms holding on to a metal bar, hoping that when we let go we hit the water in such a fashion as to avoid serious lung damage and to avoid potential hazards, jagged rocks and human beings being the main hazards. High points have included beer pong, water slides and buckets of alcohol. We'd start off the day in the usual way with a few hours of friends, and a tuk tuk ride complimented by a cool beer. Then we go tubing for the next couple of hours until around 7 when we would go back to the hotel get changed and have a spot of tea. Culinary highlights have included drunken thai green curry and watching Henry run in with his tail between his legs after a skinhead started on him. I've usually crashed by 11 and Henry wakes me up at an ungodly hour and refuses to stop talking. I nthink thats a pretty good summary.
Yesterday was a break from tradition as we were leaving for the islands. We jumped on the bus around 1.30. This bus had plastic seats and no air con so we resigned ourselves to a sweat bus journey. We got off five minutes later though and jumped on a new bus, very similar but with a but of air con. A three hour journey, one dead body and a lot of lost sweat later and we arrive in Vientiane. We then get a tuk tuk for a 20 minute journey round the block and back, then an hour journey where he runs out of petrol and we have to get in a different tuk tuk, no room for us though so we were standing on the back> For some reason the tuk tuk took us to the border, where we payed 2500 kip to leave the country. We than jumped in another bus to take us across the border, and then in the back of a pick up truck to take us to the bus station. Then we jumped in our vip bus and off we go. At three o'clock in the morning we were dropped off at a bangkok bus station, we sat and ate for 2 hours with Fergus and Zach, then slept on the floor with some other guys from our bus till 8.30. Jumped on a public bus to take us to the Kho San Road. Saw a few army guys with M16's. Remembered we were in a war zone, took off my red t-shirt (poetic license) and now we're in a free internet cafe after booking our bus to Kho Pangan for the legendary full moon party. Short and sweet that was.x