19th February 2010
For just 10 pounds each (500 baht) we got a train from Bangkok to Udon Thani that took 10 hours. Although the train wasn’t ‘state of the art’, it was clean, spacious and comfortable. Probably our best overland journey taken so far!
From Udon Thani my uncle David, his wife Joy and their son Andrew (7hrs old), met us at the train station. We were all quite relieved when they suggested we stay one night in udon Thani and travel to Namsom the next day.
(Udon Thani boomed on the back of the Vietnam War, with US air bases opening up nearby. Although they are all closed today the city is still thriving with shops and markets, however, having said that I can’t think of any reason why tourists would visit this city!)
We managed to stay up until midnight to see in mine and my uncles birthday with a celebratory drink ( I was born on his 18th birthday), and to celebrate the immense journey we had undertaken in such a short period of time!
After a reasonably early start and an English breakfast in an Irish pub! We hit the shops in Udon Thani. Jonny finally decided to give up on his sandals and buy some new ones, after several attempts to try and get them repaired along our travels…the funniest memory being Sihanouk Ville in Cambodia when he paid a guy $10 to basically burn his shoes in an attempt to fix them :o)!
After we had finished shoe shopping we stopped off at Tesco Lotus…yep they are everywhere, so that David and Joy could stock up on a few supplies. After that we hit the road to make the 1.5 hour journey to Namsom.
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