So i left Koh Tao from my hotel at 11pm for my 1230 boat. The boat took 3 hours to get to a town called Chumpon. I had a 2 hour layover before my bus from there went to bangkok. I met a nice american couple and decided to have dinner with them. Eventually i took a 12 hour busride from chumpon to bangkok. I arrived at Bangkok at 5am. After showing the americans where to stay i went to the trainstation to get the first train to Laos. I found out that the train i wanted leaves at 8 PM which means i have a full day to waste in Bangkok. I have a love/hate relationship with Bangkok. I grabed a hotel room and had a 6 hour nap. I then decided to go to MBK mall to watch a movie in a VIP theater and get some mcdonalds. On the way i wanted to check out suit prices. I didnt want to go in but i ended up going in. Its kinda a good thing i did because they need about a week to make the suit. So i ended up getting all my measurments taken and in the end bought 2 suits a tux, 6 shirts, and 5 ties. I then left for MBK and went to see the movie, "body of lies" with Leo Dicaprio and Russel Crowe. It was pretty good. Before the movie starts there is a video and music about the king of thailand that you stand for. I got back to the suit place for them to do some final measurements then it was on to the train station. At first when i saw my first class sleeper car i wasnt too impressed. It basically had a lower and upper bunk and a sink. I had a guy from new zealand in the bottom bunk. Eventually as the train got moving every 5 mins there would be a new person that came into the room to change something. One came with bottled water, then clean glasses, another to change the garbage, another to take dinner and breakfast orders and one to change the sheets. So eventually our opinion changed. I thought the ride on a train would be a bit smoother than a bus but i was wrong, even tho i did get to sleep more, the bus was really rocky and bumpy. That train wetn from 8pm til 10 am in the morning. Eventually we got to the Laos boarder. I hate dealing with the boarder. you have to sign out of thailand then get a visa for laos and sign in there. Its a long process because there are so many people. That was the boarder at "VienTien". Eventually i got through and took a taxi to a travel agent to get a bus that would take me to Vang Vien. I only had to wait 40 mins for the bus which was alright. The bus to Vang Vien was about 4 hours. I met an austrailian on the bus that owns a bar in Vang Vien so that has come in handy. The first night i took it easy and just had some beers at his bar. I met an Ausie couple at the bar who were on my bus up here. We decided to meet up to go tubing the next day.
Tubing was really fun! The first bar where you start there was a bar that was non profit and gave money to the local schools that taught english, it looked pretty legit so i had a drink for the children. There are about 20 bars along the river that you get pulled into if you want to stop. We stopped at quite a few. The best was "Mr. Lao Lao's" He had Happy shakes so we all had one. At the start of the river i didnt think i was gonna do the rope swings but after a lil liquid courage i did a few.
After tubing and a meal i was done, pretty much jsut layed down and went to bed the rest of the day/night. Today i didnt really do much, just chilled out and walked around. I'm gonna meet up with the aussies around 830 and go to a bar called "bucket bar". I think I'll do some tubing tomorrow then leave on the next day.
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