Christmas day,we woke and went to read in our hotel raft restaurant which over looks the beautiful river. Later we wondered out for Christmas Lunch, Josh had Pineapple Rice and i had Green Curry Soup. We went to call home at stuff after. We went and played some pool after. The evening our guest house held a small party for the guests with free buffet dinner and festive music. We stayed for a while then headed out to the bar street and had some cheap whiskeys. Boxing day we had a bit of a lads day. We watched football, played cards and when to the river Kwai and relaxed there for the afternoon. The following day we visited the Bazaar, we got up too late to visit the Erawin Waterfalls as we had wanted so we went for a big walk for few hours. In the evening we sat on a swing bench by the river and relaxed. We got up really early the next day and caught the local bus to the waterfall. It cost about 1 pound for 65km. The waterfalls were really nice, 7 in total all at different levels. Josh went in one which had a cool big rock people use as a slide. I didn't go in as the fish in there nip at you and it doesn't feel very nice. We walked all the way to the last one throughout the day around 2km i think. In the evening we found a cheap restaurant called Tofu Bar, it was good tofu. We left Kanchanaburi the next morning for Ayutthaya. It took 4 hours and 2 buses for about an 8th of the price most tourists pay for a minibus. We arrived and found guest houses expensive. When we found a cheap enough room it was getting a bit late we decided to stay one night and find a new room tomorrow as it wasn't really nice. We went out for an explore and it had got dark. We were walking down a main street and we heard a noise but before we knew it a big dog came up behind me and bit my leg! It was a shock, we hadn't even seen it coming. We crossed the road to some street lamps and it looked a little deep so we decided not to take any risks and go to a local doctor or the hospital. Luckily we found a clinic about 2 minutes walk away and it had an English speaking doctor. I had to have a booster rabies, the doctor thought as i have had all my jabs and it didn't seem to bad, i was going to be OK without anymore medication. He gave me 4 days of tablets and cleaned it up. 16 pounds i thought was cheap and no messing around, hopefully the Insurance will cover. We went back for the night after this. The next day we found a better place to stay with a TV! we went looking for boat and canoe prices for the lake around the island. After we found a Mall, the first one I've seen in Thailand and a market surrounding it. We met a few locals and hung out with them in the afternoon and evening. We also met 2 guys from England, they were fun, Richard and Wez from Birmingham. We went sight seeing the next day (New years eve) around the temples, an elephant rescue park and to a big market complex this was really fun. We hired a dodgy tuk-tuk driver who tried to charge us almost 3 times the price he quoted. When we arrived back, our street is setting up a big street party for the evening. Live music stages, Balloons it looked good. Our hotel were holding a party with free food and drink for 6pm.We started our night there. After we went out to the street and watched an acoustic duet on the big stage. We moved to the street lamp bar where they had a full band playing English covers, other singers joined in and also band members changed. This bar was full of local young people and a few tourists. We had a great night there, met loads of nice people from Thailand and Germany it was a great New Years eve. New Years Day we didn't rise until around 2pmish. today was relaxed naturally. The following day we caught a bus to Bangkok. We headed straight to Khao San Road. Rooms are a lot more expensive here. Bangkok looks really good although full of tourists, more than anywhere else by far. We went for an explore which took a good few hours. Markets everywhere, massive shopping malls, street bars, food everywhere, on the streets you can buy any kind of license or degree. Get tattoos, dreadlocks, braids, piercing and of course beer vests. The first night was watched football in a small bar. Oh and ping pong show offers as soon as its dark. We went out the next morning by taxi hoping to visit some museums, we got out at the area and ended up spending about 6 hour it a massive mall. It was incredible, so big. I took so long to walk around. Josh brought a game boy which has about 500 games on it, it will be really good for journeys as our ipod charger is broken so no music for now. We also visited the stadium. Kids playing sports everywhere, boy/girl band rehearsals, break dancing groups, such a cool place where local kids can go. We returned back to our guest house and watched movies in the lobby/restaurant all night. Today we had to get up really early and go to the Indian Embassy. It was such a hassle to sort out our visas, at least 2 hours of faffing. After we caught the sky train to Victory Monument and walk to a large park area. There was a Zoo there for 2 pounds so we went. It was really good but sadly no pandas but we did see lots of penguins, they were really cool. and here we are now about to spend our third night in Bangkok!
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