My last day on Khaosan was kind of a wrap to my missions. I needed to fetch my suit, that was all I had to achieve for the day. I woke up early as usual but managed to go back to sleep till a late hour of 9am. I dunno what’s wrong with me but I just can’t sleep in late no matter how much I partied the night before.
I wanted proper coffee as I had not had a coffee since Koh Tao on the 4th January. In my search for a decent cup of coffee I randomly bumped into my Austrian friend Christian who had arrived in Bangkok at 6am that morning after a long bus trip.
I was super stoked to see him as it meant I might actually have something to do for the day. We caught up on what had happened since new years party on Koh Tao. Christian had literally not moved from Koh Tao and met numerous cute women, not surprising.
After getting a coffee, some Mac Donald’s and having a wander around the Khaosan market, we decided to head to Chinatown to explore that part of Bangkok. We caught a tuc-tuc to Chinatown, but everyone in Bangkok was gearing up for Chinese new year the roads were congested. We could have walked to Chinatown in much the same time frame as it took the tuc-tuc to get there. It was however very comfortable and interesting doing it by by tuc-tuc.
We stopped for some noodle soup and a few small snacks along the way while walking through china town. My plans of going to the aquarium had gone out of the window, I was not keen to deal with the inevitable traffic through Bangkok from Khaosan to Siam, so we made the most of Chinatown.
That morning Christian had told me all about a place near the palace that he bought some tiger balm style products. Thai / Tiger Balm was on my shopping list, so we managed to flag down and tuc-tuc driver for the return journey and somehow communicated to him where to find this Balm that Christian had purchase in the morning.
Christian was meeting a girl he met on the boat across from Koh Tao who was also Austrian like he was, he couldn’t remember her name, so I had to ask, her name was Flora. At the same time we found Flora we bumped into a climber who I had met in Tonsai over 2010 December with the name Marcus. The 4 of us hung out, munched some food and drank beer.
Christian had to catch a plane, Marcus had to catch a bus and so did Flora, so after everybody headed out I decided to take a walk to the Tattoo place to see if anyone was there. I found Aun and a friend of his called Nick. We hung out and started drinking as Aun was of duty, tattoo place was closed. We had a great time sitting and chatting about all sorts.
The tattoo guys had to leave and head off to meet girl friends. It was already pretty late, so I decided to check out Khaosan road and see if I met any more random peeps. I did meet a bunch of crazies, so I bought more beer and continued drinking.
Eventually I lost the various crazies I had met and decided to head back to hotel. On the way back I bumped into Kumi the Japanese lady I had met at the trance place a couple of nights before, she was with another Thai woman who was super friendly. I thought why not sit down, chat a bit and then finally hit the hay. Such interesting people, we sat chatting for ages.
After a long last day of Khaosan adventures I finally hit the hay at around 2:30am.
