Day 4 started with an early wake up, 7am. Wouldnt have been bad but we had been out drinkin some Chang beer the nite before. We would later learn the term 'Changover' instead of hangover from a Thai tour guide. How true it is. Hangovers are one thing but changovers feel even worse. Not quite as bad as soju hangovers, possibly the worst in the world. Enough about drinking, we had to wake up early because we were heading to the famous floating market about an hour or so outside of Bangkok. Its exactly what it sounds like, a market that is floating.
So before we got to the market we stopped to get on a long tail boat (google it) to take us to the market, its not necessary to take one but it was cool. We were told before we got on to keep or hands inside the boat because of the snakes and other creatures that were in the river. Ok easy enough to follow those directions. However, they never said what we should do if the boat tips over and we all go into the river. Because I would say that came close to happening at least 3 times on the way to the floating market.
Oh well, all part of the fun i guess. So we arrived at the floating market only to realize we had walked right into another tourist trap. We soon realized that because tourism is the number 1 economy of Thailand, everything that is somewhat exciting to visit has been transformed into a tourist destination. This has positives and negatives. Positives - people speak English. Negative - really never experienced Thailand how the Thai people do.
Even with the floating market being a tourist trap it was really cool to go to and see. Apparently about 20 or so years ago it was actually used as a market for the Thai people, I guess we just missed out on that...
After the floating market we visited Johns favorite animal, the snake. Our tour group stopped at a cobra show and John was less than thrilled. Stu and I happened to enjoy it tho, so thats all that matters. But ya the show was really cool. It was basically snakes 'fighting' thai guys. I clearly would not have wanted to be one of the guys 'fighting' the snakes, but really enjoyed the performance they put on for us. We then left for Bangkok and our wonderful overnite bus awaited us.
And by wonderful I mean completely awful. We left the bus terminal around 8ish, supposed to leave around 7pm but everything in Thailand is naturally delayed, pretty sure its a law actually... Regardless we were headed to the islands on the East coast and i couldnt have been more excited. We eventually arrived at this random meeting area around 4am where the people on our bus would split into smaller groups depending on where your final stop was. From there we took another bus and then a boat to our 2nd destination...Koh Samui.
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