Traveling North

Well Pieter has arrived and we are no longer in Bangkok. We stayed there for a few days seeing the big sights. The grand palace was pretty amazing, i'll try to get some pictures up eventually haha. Bangkok is fun because its easy to get around, we took tuk-tuks, the metro, the sky train, taxis and river taxis. The river taxis were pretty fun, although the sky train was air conditioned which was awesome in the heat. Bangkok continued to be very very hot while we were there and i was glad to leave more for that then anything else. We also wandered around Chinatown and saw the largest solid gold Buddha which weights 5 1/2 tons which was pretty crazy. And we went out to Khao San Road one night because thats what all the tourists do haha, but it was fun. It is definitely a different crowd that come to Thailand then the people we met in India, but its fun still and now that we are out of Bangkok maybe we will meet more people that are here for more then the parties. After bangkok we took the train to Chiang Mai which is where we are now. The train was similar to sleeper trains in india which was great. I continue to be surprised about how well developed Thailand is, i guess at least compared to India, even the small towns we saw from the train looked pretty nice. We plan to hang out here for a few days and we just signed up for a 3 day trek through the hills including two nights in a trible village so thats the plan right now. After that we will slowly make our way towards Laos i think. Also in other news Anjali bought her tickets to come meet us at the end of her semester so i'm super excited about that.