Koh Phi-Phi to Bangkok (Tim)
After Ryan's last post, we stayed two more nights on Koh Phi-Phi during which time we rented a boat and went snorkelling around the bay on which 'The Beach' was filmed (there are supposed to be harmless reef sharks around these waters, but the water was too cloudy to see much) and just generally relaxed, enjoying the remainder of our time with the Project Trust volunteers.
Yesterday, we decided it was time to end our travels in the touristy beach resorts of Southern Thailand, and start heading north again in time to get to Rose's village for Songkran (Thai newyear) on the 12th April. The overnight bus-journey was fairly uneventful and we arrived in Bangkok at 5 O'clock this morning, to discover that someone had dipped into our bags. All three of us had cash removed from our rucksacks (although luckily our passports and all other important documents were left untouched). We reasoned that this must have happened on the coach by one of the luggage handlers, as we were watching the bags carefully the rest of the time - now we will take much greater caution in future to keep all cash on us whilst travelling.
We plan to stay in Bangkok for a couple of days so we can get our Laos visa sorted, book our bus tickets to Phana for Songkran, but mainly so we can spend most of a week learning to be Buddhist monks in a monastry. During this time, you live like the other monks in the monastry; rising early, meditating for 8 hours a day, doing everything with complete mindfulness (I'm not quite sure what this entails, but afterwards I will be able to explain better), and Ryan and I (Shaun is still undecided) plan to shave our heads and eyebrows.
Should make for an enlightening experience.
Yesterday, we decided it was time to end our travels in the touristy beach resorts of Southern Thailand, and start heading north again in time to get to Rose's village for Songkran (Thai newyear) on the 12th April. The overnight bus-journey was fairly uneventful and we arrived in Bangkok at 5 O'clock this morning, to discover that someone had dipped into our bags. All three of us had cash removed from our rucksacks (although luckily our passports and all other important documents were left untouched). We reasoned that this must have happened on the coach by one of the luggage handlers, as we were watching the bags carefully the rest of the time - now we will take much greater caution in future to keep all cash on us whilst travelling.
We plan to stay in Bangkok for a couple of days so we can get our Laos visa sorted, book our bus tickets to Phana for Songkran, but mainly so we can spend most of a week learning to be Buddhist monks in a monastry. During this time, you live like the other monks in the monastry; rising early, meditating for 8 hours a day, doing everything with complete mindfulness (I'm not quite sure what this entails, but afterwards I will be able to explain better), and Ryan and I (Shaun is still undecided) plan to shave our heads and eyebrows.
Should make for an enlightening experience.
posted by Timmy at Tuesday, April 04, 2006
4 Comments:
you forgot to mention about Ryan bein a superhero! Saving young ladies from dangerous crabs and magnificent dives to retrieve a snorkel how could you forget??!!
Yeah Tim, what were you thinking leaving out the stories, legends dare I say, of my heroics? Don't worry folks, more about my crustacean-charming skills and fish-like underwater diving in my next post. I bet you can't wait!
whats more terrible than shaving your head...nothing! not even little crabs!
aw poor timotei, first the beard, now the head and eyebrows...
i think some pictures are needed laddys!! xxx
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