If New Zealand and Australia were about the wildlife then Thailand has most definitely been about the food. I went on my cooking course, ate a lot of different street food and while I certainly haven't been brave enough to try everything I have eaten insects (One thing I managed to avoid was durian fruit...it smells so much like vomit that it's banned on public transport!)!
It was also been great spending time with Reuben and Bex again. Meeting up in Sydney was fun but to experience a festival like Songkran with them over a good few days was fantastic. Thailand is also the first country on the trip where the first language doesn't use the same alphabet as the UK so it was great to have friends from home to experience this with.
I experienced a lot of Asian culture here too and as Buddhism plays a big part in many peoples lives there were so many temples. It was amazing to see how colourful each one was and the amount of time and effort that had gone in to decorating each one with colourful tiles, paint and precious materials like pearl and gold. It really has been a very colourful country and I would love to come back again one day.
For now though, next stop Cambodia!
In The Photo: This is quite literally one of the coolest ice-creams ever. In another food adventure I found a stall in a Bangkok mall that made ice-cream by taking the flavour liquid you want and adding liquid nitrogen! Liquid nitrogen is a chemical that is so cold it BOILS at -196°c and in the process freezes anything it touches! It was one of the smoothest ice-creams I've ever had.
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