and not find a single bar, I think we were entitled to go a little bit nuts when we hit Bangkok. Although we did manage to head to the mammoth MBK market (over 12,000 shops!) and venture across the city to Sukhumvit & Patpong a few times the majority of our 8 days in Bangkok was spent getting rotten drunk on buckets of whiskey on the infamous Kohsan road, and rightly so!By our second Saturday in Bangkok our livers screamed for mercy so we decided to head north on a 14hour sleeper train to Chiang Mai. In Chiang Mai we went to a Muai Thai fight night (billed as "Ireland Vs Thailand") & managed to secure some front row seats. These boys were as tough as nails and even the 12 year old 70kg fighters would probably give us a bit of a beating. The highlights of the night were:
(1) When they wheeled out 4 of their less impressive "athletes" for a blindfolded free-for-all fight, there were air punches galore in this one and
(2) The John Hayes look-a-like from Dublin fighting a guy pretty much have his size. The poor little fella had to get a few doses of smelling salts before he could be helped from the ring!
In a bid to get vaguely healthy we signed up for a 3 day trek in the jungle where we swam in waterfalls, rode some elephants, played footie with some locals, did some bamboo rafting and did a hell of a lot of trekking up & down some serious mountains. In preparation for the trek we decided to get absolutely loaded and fall into bed at 6am the night before (ahead of an 8:30am start). While we slept in our room some tool decided to relieve us of both our wallets, my mp3 player and Walshy's camera. If we weren't still loaded drunk we'd have been raging!
While our local opium-smoking, whiskey swilling guides were motoring up & down without breaking a sweat we just about made it back in one piece...our decision to try riding on the elephant's neck as opposed to the safe/secure seat complete with seatbelt nearly saw us take a plummet from about 15 feet in the air a few times...
...as I type we are gearing up for a horrible sounding 3-day, 2-night slow boat (complete with wooden benches to sleep on) trip to Laos, can't say we're looking forward to it.
4 comments:
Christ Walshy, ye must have been some state! I'd say the thief watching ye nearly wet himself as he eye'd up his prey. Hee hee.
Looks like your jungle trek started in similar fashion to mine but bad luck on the stolen wallet!
Colin
I suppose I am meant to keep the Stolen Wallet story quiet (that thieving Jerk !)... will do, how are you getting on anywho apart from that ??
Too right, I'd say they took one look at the two of us passed out and thought JACKPOT! Trying to just forget about it now but it's tough, no mp3 player for the next 10 months...I'll go insane!
Colin - I'm trying my best to learn from your mistakes but it's tough going. Maybe some mistakes are worth making although Chiang Mai is dangerous place to be really drunk in...I needed all my legendary pace to out-run a gang of hungry ladyboys!
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