We got off the plane and it was welcome home, or should I say welcome to Bangkok, our South East Asian home. It’s finally grown on me. It’s actually a pretty interesting place with loads of stuff to do. I’m not going to defend the fact it’s a bit sleazy but if you’re not interested in that it shouldn’t bother you.
Our trip was coming to an end and the main objective of the last day was to pack or bags to the point of bursting. We hit Kohsan Road to bargain with the stall workers to get a good deal. We walked up and down the road after jeans, shorts, shirts and loads and loads of t-shirts. We got some pretty good deals and once you start you just want to keep going and buying more. Lots of other cool things to be bought aswell include figurines, pictures, bells; fake id’s and pretty much everything else. It’s good craic trying to get the stuff for cheap. It’s a good Business Negotiation lesson, Trump and Sugar learnt it here I tell you.
After some lunch it was time for the lads to treat themselves to a facial. Laugh if you will but for the equivalent of €5 why would you say no. We got all sorts of creams on our faces that made them shine and clean. Fantastic and rejuvenated we left the beautician. Hard to believe 24 hours time we would be separated. Later on that night myself and Mike went back to get pedicures and manicures. Once again our defence is that it was cheap.
Mike and I took another walk down Kohsan Road and saw some freestylers performing. Mike decided he wanted in on the action. He performed with both of the guys one of whom was African and the other Thai. They performed solo and then some combo moves to the cheers of the onlookers. A good show was put on by all. We headed back afterwards and went to bed.
We awoke bright and early to ensure we got the most of our day. We enjoyed the “Last Breakfast” together and reminisced about all the good times. We all got a few last minute gifts and just enjoyed the banter that Bangkok has to offer.
We had come full circle in Asia. Experienced the beautiful Angkor’s that the Kingdom of Cambodia has to offer, travelled through the flooded streets of Siem Reap, got an insight into the horror that 1,000’s experienced in the killing fields and being lucky enough to meet one of only seven survivors, taken a boat down the Mekong, experienced the overnight rat trains of Vietnam, soaked in the beautiful beaches in Nha Trang, shopping till we dropped in the Tailor town of Hoi An, viewed the thousands of beautiful islands of Halong Bay, witnessed the famous Water Puppet show of Hanoi, chilled and drank Beer Lao in Lac Sao and Vientiane, tubed down the Nam Song river in Vang Vieng, experienced the magic of Luang Prabang, slept our way down the Mekong in Laos, viewed the Elephants paint Van Gough, seen the beautiful Maya Bay (location of the “Beach”.) and seen all the Buddha’s of Bangkok.
South East Asia was a 10/10 trip made special by everyone especially a good GAP group. Thailand thank you, Kingdom of Cambodia thank you, thank you Vietnam and thank you Laos.
Conor
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