Welcome to Bangkok

Goa to Bangkok 31/10/11

To arrive in Thailand from Goa took us at total of 26 hours of nonstop traveling. The journey began in a insanely hot and incredibly cramped bus from Mapusa to Mumbai. It was so packed you had people sleeping in the isle on some newspaper. The busdriver put on a really bizarre Bollywood movie, it just kept cutting to random scenes of indian strongmen fighting people and then suddenly breaking into song and dance and then out of nowhere a car chase! mental but not boring. When we made it to the outskirts of Mumbai we were about 2 hours behind schedule so we had to flag down a autorickshaw, the driver was a oldman with white hair streaming from his face and ears. He was pretty slow and almost drove into a truck but we managed to board our flight just on time. We touched down in Suvarnabhumi Airport and found a taxi, it was bright pink and the taxi driver was carrying hangcuffs.. When we got to the hostel 'We Bangkok' we had to climb over a load of sandbags, This was the first sign of the worst flooding that had hit Thailand for 60 years. The hostel is nice with a roof garden, pool table and beanbags and the receptionists are so enthusiastic. It was Halloween and lots people where going out, but tonight I needed my rest.