With the 30 day chinese visa's safely in our passports we headed out of the relative safety of Bangkok today. With it goes western menu's and easy ordering of vegetarian food. Luckliy we arrived in our first port of call Chachoengaso and after dumping our bags in the dump of a guest house we set off exploring looking for food. We have managed to explore all of about 300 meters from the hotel and are at present in the airconditioned luxury of an icecream parlour that does food has a waitress that can speak some English and has free wifi. Talk about intrepid adventurers tasting the wares of the locals!
We are putting off going back to the guest house for as long as possible as it is a little more than grotty but the only one we could find and that was with the help of the taxi driver who drove us from Bangkok. We also have the delight of putting the bike back together and packing all our stuff, although we sent lots home we have managed to buy lots of books just to even it all up.
The big news Rich forgot to say in the last post is that we have decided after much lugging about of the bike in its packed stateis that we really do not want to be gadding about all over China by train as was the first plan, so have revised the route. We have decided that Vitenam will have to wait and to head straight up Laos and into China rather than via North Vietnam, then head straight towards Tibet and the big hills. So no Beijing, no great wall or Terrocotta army but also no lugging the bike around packed up!!
lets see what tomorrow brings.....
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