Sawadee Christmas!

Well what can we say... Merry Christmas, what a mile stone in our adventures here in Thailand, we decided that on Christmas eve it would be awesome to head into Bangkok and take a look at the Christmas lights with P'Tar to get us into the Christmas mood.

The Christmas Decorations were beautiful and made it feel a lot more like christmas.

It was rammed with people taking pictures and getting into the christmas spirt

We made a stop at Big Ben :)

Merry Christmas to you all, Have a wonderful day :)

Seasons Greetings

Deac&Gilb x

Sorry it's been a while! Nicks house

Sorry it has been a while :S we've been quite busy having 2 friends here for 3 weeks and both working a few days, but it has given us plenty to blog over the coming weeks. 

One of our new friends in Thailand, P'An has a boyfriend that has lived in london for the past 10 years, Nick, he came to Thailand to see her and dropped in to meet us, we hung out with him for a night and made arrangements to go see some sights with him a few days later.

We made our way to an enormous temple on the top of a mountain near to where Nicks was living. This temple is not a traditional Thai temple, it has influences from other places like India and Tibet. 

This stature is rare because you never really see pictures of Buddah pointing up and down like this

Beautiful view.

Two way Faceless statue, odd 

Getting to the temple was quite a task as there was once again possibly 2000000 stairs.

Beautiful temple

I am the ying and the yang!

All aspects of this temple were interesting, filled with beautiful architecture.

The temple was filled with glorious statues and breathtaking views.

On the way back we stopped at a massive lake that spread as far as the eye could see, filled with exotic birds and wildlife. but those animals are hard to capture on camera so we have this instead!

Workout?

This is Nicks family house in Thailand, it was huge and had beautiful gardens, he had the whole place to himself for a month, he plans to move there maybe in a couple of years.

Thank you Nick for showing us around and hope to see you in the future.

Peace 

Deac&Gilb x

Loygatong Festival

Loygatong is an annual festival that takes place all over Thailand during the Full Moon of November. Everyone is out to celebrate it the preceedings take place for about a week or 2 solid.

Every night down our road since we got back from Lao we could hear Fireworks see the occasional Lantern and general partying going on.

The Peak of the event is the last day of the full moon, we went to a temple with the open room family to set off a few lanterns.

Loygatong is a festival in which Buddist people pay respect to the Gods of different elements, so we headed down to the water and set off fire lanterns.

Were still not really sure why there were so many statues of Cock's around, but apparently the king used to like cock fighting so that might be the reason?

The king himself

3 massive cocks?

Beautiful Lilies on the water.

Before setting off the lanterns you have to light the bottom and wait for the paper lantern to fill up with hot air.

It's really fun and everyone gets involved.

One of the Lanterns didn't quite make it off the ground but the other two flew off wonderfully. 

Friends from the Preservation club.

Turtle in a bag (don't worry we set him free)

Fireworks everywhere.

Can you spot 'The Defiant Cock'

We ended the night with one of these delicious beverages, icy syrupy treat.

Peace

Deac&Gilb xx

Well its been a while (Laos)

We undertook another magical visa run trip, this time taking our two heros to Laos.

Laos is a crazy place possibly because it was once run by the French. . . . But the French did leave a few good things behind, like baguettes :)

In the que to leave Thailand

We once again were illegal and had to pay another fine, this is the room where the magic happens.

P'Jun & P'Joke Drove the whole way! and it was pretty far about an 8 hour journey through time and space.

Our first Tuk tuk ride since being in S.E Asia, was a pleasant experience.

A small street market where we grabbed a quick drink in a bag again.

Deacon Fights Dragons

After all the hard work of sitting in the back of a car for 8 hours we walked around and tried to find a hotel with as P'Joke said "An Art Feel" after failing this we settled for a very nice place around the corner and we were shattered! The only rooms left were V.I.P rooms but it was £10 a person and included Breakfast, so we weren't complaining! although our room wasn't ready yet, so we sat about reading newspapers and drifting off to sleep.

Later on after a nap we headed to a temple and to get some food.

meat on a stick

There was a market selling some weird stuff from clothes to whiskey to toy guns..

The Disney land of the temple world.

Fair ground rides 

Fair ground games

And us!

We had the pleasure of sampling the local delicacies 'Beer Lao' and 'Beer Lao Dark' we'd both recommend the dark :)

Our Abode for the night.

The Beautiful P'Key outside our hotel.

The Lao Prime Ministers Bachelor Pad

Another Temple this one was beautiful and the center building was facing in a different direction to any other of its kind, interesting eh?

The building behind us once held the Emerald Buddha but it was taken by the French (might be wrong on that one) and the building is now a museum.

Deacon turned this dragon to stone.

Las Vegas?

Bird.

We will be heading back to Lao next month to spend a bit more time there, we only stayed for one night on this trip, and next time we'll be experiencing some Saao Lao but only a few will know what that is ;)

Peace

Deac&Gilb x