Upon leaving Koh Tao (sadly!) Cari Banana and I had to head to Bangkok to get our Burmese visa. How to get there? Overnight train! I have to say we were excited about the train as we had a sleeper all to ourselves. I had visions of eating in a dining cart like characters from the Orient Express. While that wasn’t to be, it was still a comfortable journey on our bunk beds with the countryside whizzing by.
Tuesday and Wednesday were spent racing around Bangkok trying to get everything ready for our trio. Visas, tickets and cash. Burma is a little behind the times with very few ATMs in the country, and those they have don’t accept foreign cards. We were going to have to carry all the cash we needed, in USD, for the entire trip. We basically did the banks tour of Bangkok the past 2 days!
We did get to catch up with Mai, a friend from Phuket who helped us to check out Terminal, a huge shopping centre in BKK and stay out of the rain. Thank you for hanging out with us Mai!
Off to Burma. Excited much!
