Rhys back at our favourite Bangkok haunt, St.James Hotel, where they were all surprised to see us again!
Once again we woke up in rag order after the previous days tubing and reached the consensus that there was no physical way we could go through the same ordeal again. So we happily packed up and bid farewell to Vang Vieng heading for the Thai border at Vientienne and onwards to Bangkok.
We arrived to Bangkok in the middle of the night and made our way to to St.James Hotel for the night where we had previously stayed the last time here. The staff were all surprised to see us after waving us goodbye only a month ago!
A final decision was needed on what to do with oursleves while the car is being put on a container ship to Calcutta for the next 18 days.
We had 3 choices to fill this time:
1. Nepal/Everest BaseCamp
2. Vietnam and Cambodia/Backpacking
3. Japan/Skiing
If we could have continued by Car into Tibet our next stage was to trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal en route to India. Since we could no longer drive to Nepal, we were considering flying directly from Bangkok and attempting the Base Camp anyway. However we were advised against this by many people due to the inconsistency of tours this time of year especially with the severe snow storms in the regions and we would more than likely be left disappointed with our inability to reach it.
1. Nepal/Everest BaseCamp
2. Vietnam and Cambodia/Backpacking
3. Japan/Skiing
If we could have continued by Car into Tibet our next stage was to trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal en route to India. Since we could no longer drive to Nepal, we were considering flying directly from Bangkok and attempting the Base Camp anyway. However we were advised against this by many people due to the inconsistency of tours this time of year especially with the severe snow storms in the regions and we would more than likely be left disappointed with our inability to reach it.
Our second option was to travel by land and backpack from Bangkok through Cambodia and Vietnam, visiting Ankar Wat, Phnom Phen, Ho Chi Minh City and finally flying from Hanoi to Calcutta.
Lastly, we had heard news from Rhys’ brother, Flynn who was on a ski holiday in Japan with friends who work for a ski travel company, welovesnow.com. They heard about CRAZYJOURNEY and were willing to give us free accommodation for our stay there.
We finally decided on the skiing option as it was the most cost efficient and interesting option as we could also fit Tokyo into our trip. We set ourselves to book flights the following day to Tokyo!
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