Thailand Day 13 - Bangkok

Wow. We spent a long time on busses today. We got up early and caught a Songtao to the Kanchanaburi bus station (10 minutes)
Then we took a bus from Kanchanaburi to the Rachaburi region (2 hours)
Then we caught a minibus - AKA songtao to Damnoen Saduak (30 min)
We wanted to get to Damnoen Saduak because there's a floating market there, and Thailand seems famous for these (or perhaps just markets in general haha).

The minibus dropped us at a place where long tail boat tours began, and we were out of walking distance from anywhere to just walk the market, so they "conveniently" forced us to use their boat people. When we arrived, they "graciously" tried to rent us a long tail boat and driver for an hour at a "discounted price" of 800 baht a person. We nearly choked. Long story short, we got the boat for 200 baht a person. He floated us through the market, and slowed at all the booths where we're sure he would've gotten a commission had we bought anything there. We purchased a few little things and snacks, but none of us had any cash so it was sparse.

The boat dropped us at a stop near the bus "station" which was actually just a stand that sold tickets that buses occasionally stopped at. We paid for a ticket to the bus that goes to Bangkok, and spent 2 hours on that bus. At least it had A/C =)

Once arriving in bangkok, we pretty much didn't want to see another bus, but we took another city bus to the opposite side of town back to our hostel (another hour or so)

Phew. By the time we got back, we were wiped, and we felt like all we'd done was ride buses! For dinner, Leah and I went to an Italian restaurant where the food was overpriced and not very good. Oh well. We walked around a bit until the impending thunderstorm finally came and the sky opened and buckets of water came pouring down. Leah and I sprinted back to the room in just enough time to get pretty wet.