I started my day in Railay beach, by doing my usual routine of walking to the beach, swimming, and then stretching. On my way out of town I stopped and got breakfast at the viewpoint resort buffet that was hands down the best deal for food anywhere on the peninsula. Seven dollars for an all you can eat breakfast buffet, that was actually really really good. Lets just say I ate there more then once.
After fueling up I sauntered over to the boats to begin my long day of travel from Railay, to Krabi, to Bangkok, and then finally to Siem Reap. I met another traveler on the pier and we split a boat, and a taxi to the airport. Everything was great, then I got got. By the most classic Thai scam there is, the I have no change scam. I tried to pay the eight-hundred baht taxi with a thousand baht note. It was all the cash I had left, the driver knew he had me by the balls as I had a plane to catch and no other viable way to break the note quickly. So I did the only classy thing I could, I called him an asshole to his face, admitted defeat and walked away. Thankfully the guy who I shared the taxi with, who had actually booked it, gave me the two-hundred baht difference so we shared the loss.
From krabi it was a short one hour flight to Bangkok which was made twice as long by a one hour delay, I had a four hour layover in DMK airport in Bangkok so no big deal. when I landed I was hit with a pang of hunger and a random instantaneous craving for shitty American food, as all the Asian cuisine was for some reason to me, completely inedible. So I went to Mc Ds, for some ungodly reason at the time it seemed like a great choice. I hadn’t eaten anything from Mc Donald’s in nearly four years, and I was quickly reminded why. Shortly after I had eaten I was covered in a cold sweat with a nice big ball of lead in my gut.
I with the new awesome feeling I had in my body, of it trying to work through that poison they call food. Went to wait for my flight, to my dismay it had been delayed an hour and twenty minutes. I pulled out my book and read the time away, when the time had nearly past I looked up at the gate screen. To my dismay again it had been delayed another forty minutes, again I read. After looking up a third time and seen yet another delay I had sunk pretty deep into that feeling when something keeps dragging out but you are completely dependent on that thing and equally as helpless to do anything about it, so you just accept it. And in my case just eat and read the time away.
Finally 2 and a half hours late they call boarding, I am in zone one. Bonus. I go to line up and I am met with an airline attendant, she was handing out meal vouchers. She instructed me to go to the Burger King fifty meters away in the waiting area, So being the good Canadian I am off I went (never say no to free food). What I received from Burger King was comical to say the least, the staff handed me a paper bag and a bottle of water, and off I went to rejoin the line. The bag contained a sole container of chicken nuggets and a dish of BBQ sauce, I am pretty sure I laughed out loud. Three hours of delay and they gave us 6 chicken nuggets each and a water. They gave us pity nuggets, It made me laugh so hard people stared at me. Its amazing how something as simple and pitiful as six chicken nuggets and a bottle of water is enough to pacify two hundred pissed off, tired travelers. Also to think on it, Great job Burger King for coming up with twelve hundred chicken nuggets with not much notice.
Finally after five hours in DMK we boarded the flight and flew to Siem Reap with no other shenanigans. When I landed i was third person off the plane and because I did my homework and filled out all the necessary documents ahead of time I was first through immigration. Then my bag was in the first twenty off the plane, so I was off the plane and into a taxi in less than twenty minutes. Which to me I think is a new record.
The drive to the hotel was smooth and my driver spoke near perfect English. We had a great conversation on the fifty minute drive. I’m at my hotel now and its one am. So off to bed, and tomorrow I’m going to see Angkor Wat. I’m pumped.
Another thing this hotel is amazing, they wrote my name in grass and flowers on the bed.
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