We woke up early to meet the dutch girls to go to Tiger Temple; a Buddhist Monk run temple for orphaned tigers. I was seriously looking forward to this but our plan fell apart when we we were told the railway to Tiger Temple had been washed away and taxis to the temple were very expensive and few and far between, damn you global climate change! We decided to go to Bangkok zoo instead, naively I had expected it to be like Marwell back home, most of the animals had adequate cages, but I saw these poor elephants chained down so they could move less than a meter. This was also where I got my first case of delhi belly. We left the zoo and found ourselves in a big square where a smiling policeman was shouting at us, we were told to stop and stand up and smile because the king was approaching. some gates up ahead opened and a armored convey barreled through, I saw lots of men in uniform drapped in medals and a guy in white which I assume is the King. Apparently here in Thailand he is revered as a god and there are massive posters and paintings plastered all over Bangkok. We had a early night with a few more beers in the famously frantic street and chilled out on 'We Bangkok's roof garden, Some of the other guys from the hostel stayed out and one came back the next day sheepishly explaining how he'd 'accidentally' slept with one of the many prostitutes, what a tool.
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