…in England, as I am reliably informed. It hasn’t, however, in Kanchanaburi. It’s about 30 degrees and really rather humid. In fact I’m trying to decide how to cool down next. Go for a swim in the River Kwai or take my third shower of the day. We came to Kanchanaburi with the intention of staying three days. It has now been a week and I would stay for longer if it wasn’t for all the other places I want to see in Thailand. It isn’t that there is so much to do, but rather the place is just so…
Excuse the week or so since my last post. It has taken me a while to collect my thoughts. When I arrived in Bangkok I spent several days doing nothing. I was really lazy, lacking energy to do anything (apart from buy the coolest Transformers t-shirt ever). Initially I couldn’t understand why but it occurred to me that I was suffering from reverse culture shock having left India. I saw so much in India. There was so much to take in, yet so little time. All the madness blurs together and becomes normal. Once I arrived in Bangkok, along with…
Poised on the Ganges, Varanasi, the most holy of all Indian sites, is so surrounded in hype that I actually left the place a little disappointed. That said, thinking back now it was a great experience. Maybe it was the disappointment of leaving the beautiful Himalayas and and the frustration re entering the tourist trap hell that we’d experienced in the Golden Triangle. The evening of the day we arrived we wandered up to see some of the Ghats (steps that go down into the river) to witness a spectacle that I still don’t understand. There were many groups of…