Sadly leaving Japan, we boarded our flight to start our trip to northern Thailand. Suddenly we had left the cold and rainy climate of Japan, and entered the warm and humid climate of Thailand. We took our first grab taxi to our hostel, which is essentially the same as Uber. We stayed at a hostel called Bed Station, I would really recommend them. The hostel was quite efficiently ran, there was a lot of staff, and there was a gym, a swimming pool, and a bar/restaurant.
After a few beers by the pool, we went to Khoa San road, which was only round the corner from our hostel. Here there is a night food market, with bars and restaurants either side of the road, and street food down the middle. Before food we sat in a bar and had our first bucket cocktail, your choice of spirit and mixer served in a sand bucket. Whilst we were sitting there, after quite a lot of convincing Laura, we both bought and ate a scorpion. Once you get over the sensation of what it is your eating, it actually wasn’t too bad although it did leave a strange aftertaste. We both had some street food to wash the taste away, Pad Thai and I had a curry.
We spent the next day walking around looking in the local shops, and spending some time in the pool at our hostel. Once it was dark we did the same as the night before and had some drinks and food at Khoa San road. However we decided that instead of staying there the whole evening, we would go to Soi Cowboy. We had been told that this is one of the places to go to experience seeing “lady boys”, something we thought was a right of passage whilst in Bangkok. We ended up just having a drink in a bar that we were told didn’t have an entrance fee. It wasn’t long before we ended up going back to our hostel, it was all a very weird experience but I guess that’s part of Thailand!
The next morning we decided to get a massage before we checked out of our hostel. We then made our way to the train station, as we decided we would use the overnight sleeper train to get to Chiang Mai.
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