Again I breakfasted alone but met the lads around check out time (noon) at their hotel where we left our bags in storage. We went for brunch as Rob and George were hungry and on our return we booked a train to Chiang Mai. At least we tried to. We would've booked one if they hadn't moved the time of departure 2 hours forward, making it impossible to get there before departure. It left us with only one option, to get the bus, because I for one wasn't going to hang around until tomorrow to get a train. It did however mean that we had ages to wait before we needed to leave at 18.30. Rob was happy to fill his afternoon on my laptop but George and I wanted to actually do something. The only suggestion on the table was mine of going to the National Museum. The museum is supposedly the largest in SE Asia so when we got there and it was shut we were slightly disappointed. But fear not because just across the road there was a massive fate on a sports field. It turned out to be a very dull Buddhist celebration, although we did get free entry to a 4D film. We had to wait almost an hour for it so we grabbed a drink in a nearby cafe. On our return we were both thoroughly disappointed as the film was about the life of Buddha and was in Thai, the only good thing was that it wasted 20 minutes. We spent the rest of the afternoon chatting and eating. We caught a taxi, which took 50 minutes, to the bus depot, giving us 40 minutes to wait. The depot itself was like an airport, certainly I have seen smaller airports, there was a whopping 140+ coach bays spread across 2 massive building. We needn't have got there so early, it turned out we could've been nearly an hour late and still caught the correct bus. There were a few false starts resulting in us almost getting on the wrong bus, including one which was going to Si Chiangmai (400km in the wrong direction) luckily the 'helpful' assistant realised her mistake before it was too late.
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| Vast waste of space unless you're Buddist. |
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