Saturday 21 December 2013

Day 116, 90km. By Amy:

Getting out of Bangkok involved a 6 lane motorway and lots of traffic but then we managed to get onto the backstreets where the road, almost obscured by market stalls, ran along the railway with no barrier to wandering pedestrians. 

Amy jostles for position while awaiting the lights.When they turn green its every man (or woman ) for themselves.

After this short stint we were pushed back onto the massive road which was now 8 lanes. Thankfully the hard shoulder was an 'anything goes lane' for unusual traffic or anyone who wanted to travel the wrong way down the motorway (which seemed to be perfectly acceptable). After 10km of this we had to detach the trailers and carry our stuff over a footbridge to get back onto the small roads.
After a long busy day we arrived in Amphawa at gone 5pm to find it was where everyone else from Bangkok had come for the weekend. All the guesthouses were therefore full and very pricy. In the end we found a little room with a nice couple who had turned there house into a homestay for the weekend. 
We got cleaned up and headed to Amphawa's main weekend attraction; the floating food market. Everyone from the local area brings there wears in boats to cook and sell to the tourists. It was packed and we spent several happy hours wandering around eating random stuff.
The floating market

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