Hey folks,
Friday night was pretty long through jetlag. Woke up about 4am, and didn't sleep. Still, it wasn't so bad - it's not actually as hot as I was expecting, and there was running water outside my window & chimes, so I just chilled. Given how close it is to KSR (khao san road) it's pretty quiet.
However! I think I have it beat now. I ended up not getting back to sleep after that, but kept myself awake until pretty late last night then got up this morning with a bit of a hangover but feeling distinctly more normal. I've met a bunch of people at the first guesthouse that I went to Chatuchak market, which is pretty huge - about 15000 stalls. I bartered hard to get a thin strip of leather to hang my evil eye pendant off (thanks Jossie!)
Totally failed to get a Laos visa. I was trying, because you only get a 15 day visa if you get it at the border, but it's 30 days if you get it at the embassy. Anyhow, I went on a trek for hours across the city in the hottest part of the day yesterday, got lost, gave up, found a taxi, got to the embassy, and found it's shut on weekends. I want to leave Bangkok first thing tomorrow, so I'm not going to bother going back - you can get a 15 day visa on the border and just extend it, and I hear rumours that they've started issuing 30 day visas at the crossing point in the far north near Chang Mai which is where I was heading anyway.
Right - off to sit in a park and watch some tai chi before meeting up with someone for lunch. It's a hard life :)
Will.
Banglampo, Bangkok, Thailand.
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I still reckon it takes a few days to get over jetlag. But I'm probably just rubbish. Good luck on the Visa front.
sounds awesome - good effort on the bartering skills. I was always rubbish at it...
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