BANGKOK Week 22 or 23 (not sure now):

Bangkok! What can we say... brilliant! We did not get much time here as it was only really a stop off before Vietnam. The hotel we stayed at was called The Admiral Premier Hotel, Sukhumvit. This was a lovely hotel with a swimming pool on the roof. Jo's bag did not turn up until the following morning 4am, so we did not get a chance to have a swim

We decided to spend a couple of days exploring so we booked a couple of tours. The first day we traveled to 3 temples: Wat Po - The Temple of the reclyning buddah, Wat Trimit - The temple of the golden buddah and Wat Benchamabophit - The marble temple. In the evening we ventured out and booked a sun set buffet in the sky hotel (the highest building in Thailand). After dinner we pushed our way to the top and saw some amazing views of the city on the revolving deck.

The knig of Thailand

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This buddha is 5.5 tons of solid gold!

A Chinese guard. Guarding the buddha's



This little buddha is very happy.  This might be because people come and cover him in gold leaf!



Ignore the couple of fat bastards in the front, the temples at the back are the kings temples that hold the kings ashes. Smaller ones in the front held ahses of locals. Up to 99 locals in each.

Our second tour was the floating markets where we hagggled for some tiger balm and an awful waving cat! Will had to get one of these as we have been seeing them in every country we have visited so far. When we get our own flat this will have to sit in the smallest room possible (toilet maybe). You will all know what I mean when you see it! The floating markets were an amazing experience, we could spend all day watching all the boats go up and down the canals. Then we went to the Tiger Temple. We were not sure how this was going to work considering we were told that we could touch and stroke the tigers. They only open in the afternoons so in the mornings they must exercise and feed them, this means that they are slightly docile for the visitors. Anyway, we got to touch and stroke and one of the staff took some fantastic photos for us. Will's presence seemed to send them all to sleep!

Even the locals found it hot at the Tiger temple!

On the way home we stopped off at the bridge over the river Kwai. We walked across the bridge and was wondering if the train still came over. This was soon answered when a train suddenly decided to appear. We had a well deserved drink at a lovely bar before the 2 hour journey back to the hotel.