Bangkok
As we've been here before we didn't feel the need to do any sightseeing and this was great - some time just to get on with boring stuff, which bizarrely from time to time when you are away is exactly what you're looking for.
So we had a few chores to do - Laos Visa, China Visa, Japan Rail Pass and admitting my camera to the Sony "hospital" for a couple of weeks so it could be repaired (not good for a new camera and I cursed the European Warranty being in South East Asia!)
We also found somewhere else we can recommend - the Shopping Centres! The Paragon Centre is pretty impressive, far swankier than anything in the UK, so we hung out here quite a bit - knew those years in Milton Keynes were not wasted! We also saw a few films - Terminator (pish), Star Trek (fab) and Up (cute).
We stayed on Khao Sarn Road - it's mental, but not really in a good sense - a backpacker mecca which is like "Thamel on Stereoids", so we met a few crazy folk here, had a few beers and listened to lots of really bad music! We actually felt as though our room was in the disco at one point - at least at Thamel (in Nepal) we felt like we were underneath the disco!
Beaches
We needed these to recover from 5 nights staying on Khao Sarn Road! So we jumped on a bus & ferry to Koh Chang. It is one of the bigger islands and we visited Lonely Beach (which is not so lonely), Long Beach (which should be called Lonely Beach) and Bang Bao which is a lovely wee Thai fishing village on stilts in the water.
Then we jumped on a wee boat to Koh Wai - this is a tiny wee island and absolutely beautiful - and the best bit was that we had it all to ourselves! There was not one single tourist there all the time we were - so we had lovely sandy beaches all to ourselves (we stayed at Paradise beach, and it was!), swimming (paddling for me) and snorkelling (more paddling) - fantastic just what we were hoping for.
Off to Laos now......
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