Thursday, February 22, 2007

The last blog of the trip

Well. Tomorrow we head back to NZ.

It has been a great trip and we have seen some amazing things. Looks like our carry on bags are going to be massively overweight just so we can get everything back home.

Today in Bangkok, we went to go see the Grand Palace but it was closed as today is one of the only days in the year that it is only for Thai people. We met this thai person and got talking and he told us all these other places we should go see - some were only open to the public today so it is quite rare that we can actually see them. This guy even sorted out a tuk tuk driver for us and haggled him down to us paying nothing at all for the ride. The guy dropped us off at each stop and waited around for us to come out and everything. I asked him why he would do this for free and he stated that if we go to the export market (a precious stones market and shop - which we wanted to do anyway) he gets a petrol voucher so he was really happy.

It was so hot today. Around 40 degrees. When we flew in a few days back the pilot said it was around 35 degrees and we thought that was hot. Add the humidity into things and it is ridiculous. So today we nearly sweated ourselves to death. So hot.

Thats about all. I will be back in NZ at around 9:30 on saturday morning.