2/22/06 - 2/23/06 Day 4 & Day 5 - Pattaya

Day 4, we are supposed to do our border crossing from Cambodia into Thailand today. How exciting. CK and I woke up early to catch our ride -- we are to share a cab -- to the border crossing point, Poipet. The bumpy cab ride to the Poipet from Battambang took about two hours. The border crossing was uneventful and quite a letdown. I expected more excitment and something more challenging. After we got our passports stamped by both sides, we found ourselves in Aranyaprathet, Thailand. We took a tuktuk ride to the bus station in the town centre, where we hopped onto a bus to Bangkok. The bus ride was really long, I think it took about four hours just to get to Bangkok and we were really bummed out by the time we got there. We took a toilet break, had lunch and proceed on the second bus ride to Pattaya. The bus ride to Pattaya took about two hours and we were so tired. We spent a good half day travelling and after all that, all we wanted to do was to have dinner and crash. But we went out exploring nonetheless. We walked around the night markets and went to a go-go show. CK thinks that the girls in Bangkok are much better.

Day 5, we were really tired from all that travelling and lazed around in bed for a good part of the morning. When we finally got out of bed, we decided to go check out the beach and get ourselves a tan.
Pattaya in the day. To be honest, I don't really like the place, the beach is really crap. It mainly exists as a place for lonely, dirty, old, white male to go to find "love" with Thai women.

I got really bored with the beach and decided to rent a scooter to ride around and explore Pattaya instead. A full day's rental only costs 200baht, and a full tank of gas only 70baht. A license is not required and the automatic scooters are really easy to handle.

Dinner, and after dinner snacks. CK refuses to touch the maggots, so I get to have them.



After dinner, we're out checking out more of night time Pattaya. The busy streets, local eats and sexual treats.


We didn't know that we were not allowed to park the scooter along the street after dark. It got chained and we had to walk for 15 minutes to the police station to pay a fine before they would unlock the bike. We had to pay a 200baht fine and I decided to get the most out of it by getting the police to allow us to take a photo. So here's CK standing behind the counter with the Thai police, holding the summon. The table of fines can be seen behind her. She must be the happiest person to be fined. Teehee. Yes, the dude is looking most sheepish, because he was the guy who chained my bike. Bah.


And finally, here's me on the scooter, after we finally got it back. We decided to call it a day and head back for an early night's rest after that.