SEA06: Decisions after a long train trip

In my last entry to the blog, we were about to leave Chiang Mai, with the intention to go to Angkor afterwards. 

 

One of our main concerns for a trip like this one was about the security of our belongings during the night, as second class compartments comprise all the carriage. Fortunatelly, security is also a main concern of the Thai railway company, as we saw. On board of the train there were several 'Railway Police' Officers, who advised  everyone about keeping valuables under control at all times and surveilled the tran at night. During the night hours, some staff of the train were also vigilant at all times, and the doors between carriages locked (as in "chain & padlock on the door") during the hours when most people where sleeping, to avoid people roaming to other carriages than their own.

 

During the afternoon hours we could enjoy the changing landscape from the train. Afterwards we had dinner, and around midnight we tried to get to sleep. Our bunk beds were set by the railway staff and we 'retired' ourselves to sleep. Or to try to sleep, it would be more accurate. The movement of the train, the noise and the light made almost impossible to catch any sleep.    

At the time we arrived to Bangkok, it was too late to cach a convenient connexion to the border with Cambodia, and in any case we had learned about various problems and possible scams that could occur on that road to Angkor. On the other hand we realised that a site like Angkor deserves more than just a couple of hurried days to explore it. Finaly we decided that after all the travelling had done in the first days we decided than we deserved a small break and that the best thing was to head to the beach!! :-) 

 

So we took the metro, then the skytrain, a coach, then a ferry, and finally a hike hanging from the back of a truck an here we are, in Kai Bae Beach (Lonely Beach) in Ko Chang, one of the islands of the paradise... but that will be the story of another entry of this blog...