I met up with Dave and we got a taxi to Siam Square, after a quick look at the malls there we headed to Pantip Plaza, a five floor mall selling computer gear and such. Dave was after a memory card for his camera. As soon as we got there we were approached by lads selling porn DVDs. We headed for the next floor and there were more of them. We ignored them and headed round the whole place trying to find the cheapest price. When we got to the top we knew the cheapest price but not where it was. All we could remember is that it was on the first floor, so were went round that floor again before finding it.

We headed to some food before separating and met up later for beers.

I checked out the following morning and put my bags in storage the went to meet up with Dave. We had a sandwich which we both only ate half (with me quickly rushing off to bring it back up again!). As we were heading to the Royal Palace there was a sudden downpour and the few seconds I was out in it I was soaked. It ended about 10 minutes later.

This time I was dressed for the palace. It cost 200 baht (nearly 3 quid!) to enter as well as the Wat Phra Kaeo and some other gaff we had no idea about. I took a lot of pictures (for me) and we then headed down to Wat Po to see the reclining Buddha. I've already been, but there are a few pictures with me in them now.

It was getting late so we got a Tuk-Tuk back to Khao San road to get our bags and then had the hassle of trying to get a taxi. They all wanted 100 baht (one wanted 200) but we were adamant we wanted the meter. We eventually got one and even with the traffic it only came to 60.

We got our tickets through an agency on the mezzanine before waiting for 20 minutes chatting to a Belgian on a later train. The journey was uneventful, apart from having to hit our bunks early bcause the train was packed and there was nowhere to sit. We arrive late into Chiang Mai at 8:30am