Bangkok

We arrived in Bangkok at 6.30am after an interesting night on the train. I think I woke up everytime the train stopped, which felt like every 10 mins. So its fair to say we were both pretty tired.

Our first stop of the day was at the floating market, this was an amazing market that was both on land and on the canals. We were taken by boat along the canals to look at the floating stalls first, this was only supposed to take 40 mins max, but ended up being almost an hour because we got caught in a gridlock situation. I bought a purse and new handbag at the market - I haggled hard and managed to buy my bag 10baht cheaper than Becci and Laura. I could have bought lots of things but thankfully I don't have the room for them.

We were then dropped off at the hotel and I went for a little snooze to recharge my batteries, as we had a BIG last evening planned!

We went for dinner at a street cafe, the food was delicious. We were then picked up from the cafe and taken to the Calypso hotel for the ladyboy show.

The ladyboy show was cheesy and fabulous! It consisted of post-op transexuals and pre-op transvestites and they looked absolutely amazing. They mimed ( sometimes really badly) to all the songs including "I am what I am" - a Shirley Bassey classic I think, and danced or pranced around the stage in some very skimpy little numbers. The show was well worth going to see and we got to have a few photos with them after - most of the fellas didn't seem too keen on having there pictures taken with the ladyboys.

Debs then took us to one of her favorite places for a beer - a Shell garage. Oh yes, we were all nervously sipping beer and cocktails by the petrol pumps (although we are not sure if it was an actual working petrol station) with candles on the tables. After a couple of drinks we trundled off down into the Khao San road area and ended up in a club shaking our stuff.