The amazing race...continued

Excuse us if these posts are a few days old but we write them and then post them up when we get a chance, such as the airport below which is now open!!!

Bangkok airport is still closed so we can't fly to Krabi via Bangkok. (and meet Giada and Lauren)

We were going to books flights on Thai Airways to Phuket for about 6000 baht but when we went to book they were sold out.

So the Amazing Race continues...

After our rush around the night before on the pimped tuk-tuk to the bus station and back to get tickets, like the last 2 tickets to bangkok, we got up while it was still dark to get to the bus station for our bus which leaves at 7am. The pimped tuk-tuk, who promised to fetch us at 6am never arrived, so luckily the lovely Nine helped us flag down a local bus. The bus to Bangkok was ok. It had reclining seats and air con but was pretty dirty and had broken foot rests which was cool if you were lying back, but was impossible to sit up straight! The really stupid 'bus hostess' gave us a lunch box with a naartjie and weird custard cream donut.

We stopped for lunch at the dodgiest side-of-the road set up in the middle of no where. Oh how we would do anything for a Engen/ Wimpy one-stop after having eaten almost nothing all day! We then figured out that you get free lunch at this place if you have a bus ticket - a cold thai concoction with delicious fly and fingernail germs. After my sickness we have decided to be careful and try eat fresher food than that! Thank goodness, just before the bus was leaving we saw some garage with a shop in the distance so ran there and managed to get a hot dog!!

We ran back to the bus with our hot dogs to watch a movie they put on the tv. OH MY WORD! It was like a porn movie, with actors who I'm sure are not paid actors! They would try and blur parts of the body as soon as there was any nudity! When we thought the acting, dubbed in Thai, couldn't get any worse, aliens appeared in black full body leatards with blurred faces and they ran around like cats. Then everyone kinda become hypnotized and walked around all spaced out and started eating each other. Like pulling out intestines. It was just the worst thing we have ever seen! Of all the counterfeit DVD's they have in Asia you think they could have rather played some new release!

On the way to Bangkok North Bus Terminal, we went past Don Muong airport which was empty with police at the entrance not allowing anyone to enter. We saw all the protesters chilling inside. The next day we found out that a grenade went off that evening!

On arrival at the north bus station 2 1/2 hours late (suppose to arrive at 4pm), we met a lovely american girl called Grace and she was so graceful! She was trying to get to Phuket to fly home from there because of course Bangkok airports are closed. Her flight was at midday the next day so HAD to get the 8pm bus south! We then realised that to get buses south you have to go from the south terminal so the 3 of us managed to find a meter taxi to take us there. We knew the last buses to Krabi leave at 8pm so we are cutting it fine now.

The traffic from one station to the next was AWFUL! We got to the station at about 7:45 and devised a plan. Grace would pay for the taxi while I got the bags out and luke ran to find tickets for the 3 of us.

All tickets to Krabi were sold out! No no no, we ran from one counter to the next and eventually found 1 ticket and tried to convince them to let Luke sit with the driver but no luck.

It was total chaos and we were panicking. The one lady at the counter who could spk english suggested we buy a ticket to Surat Thani (10 hours) and then Surat Thani to Krabi (2 hours). So spur of the moment decision, we did. It was now 20:00 and sprinted to find our bus. The friendly lady threw me the change, can't remember how much we actually paid, and shouted RUN!

Our smiling moon with 2 eyes was definitely watching down on us because we got the last 2 seats on this bus! We were given bizarre but delicious chelsea buns for dinner. We had no time to get food or even go to the loo between changing buses! The seats on this bus also reclined and they even gave us each a blanket which was great because the a/c's on the buses are freezing!

We arrived at Surat Thani early, like 5am, and what an awful place. We got a local bus to the central bus station to get a bus to Krabi. Why do none of the buses ever leave from the same place? They really know how to confuse the hell out of tourists. We were dropped off on some dark road outside a dodgy travel agent. We asked almost everyone we saw, including official, non-corrupt people where the bus station is and they just say, 'here'. Its 5am, we are starving, have not brushed our teeth since yesterday morning, have hardly eaten and stranded!

We walked a bit down the road and saw another travel agent with loads of tourists outside it so figured this was safer than the 1 we got dropped off at. All these tourists were trying to get to either KL or singapore on buses via Hat Yai because of the bangkok airport closure. Such chaos and these cheeky local bastards are making a killing as a result.

Our 7am mini van to Krabi was late and we then had to collect about 10 more people from some guesthouse the driver had trouble finding so we were finally on our way at about 8am. We found some peanuts which we had for breakfast.

I called these guys cheeky earlier and they really are scaly liers. They bloody dropped us outside of Krabi town on a main road with nothing else around and wanted us to pay another 100 baht each for their taxi- ohh it makes me so mad! We absolutely refused. Luke and a few others had a few words with them, how much they actually understand and care I don't know. Luke thankfully flagged down a local red bus for only 20 baht each so we called everyone else and off we went. Screw you scaly company!

We got a long tail boat from the pier to east Rei Leh and then walked to our hotel on west Rei Leh which lauren booked for us. It was gorgeous!

Luke jumped straight into the pool in his clothes!! What a nightmare of a journey and thank the pope its all over!