We took a flight from Chennai to Bangkok on the morning of 3rd and arrived at 6:40 AM the same morning. we checked into our Hotel and almost the entire day was used to catch up with some rest and sleep.
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| Landing at Suvarnabhoomi airport - Bangkok |
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| Toll fee receipts from Suvarnabhoomi airport - Bangkok to our Hotel. |
The next day we took around a friend of ours shopping and on most probably his first tuk tuk ride in Bangkok.
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| Tuk Tuk driver in the (obviously) Tuk Tuk |
We were earlier in the day looking for an Indian provision store to stock up on some spices, condiments and daily supplies that would last us the trip. In Sukhumvit Soi 18 we stumbled upon the "Daily Needs Store" run by Kuldip Singh who was most helpful and gave us his card to get in touch with him in case we needed any type of help whatsoever in Bangkok.
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| I am on the left and Kuldip Singh on the right just outside his store. |
The days in Bangkok were spent in relaxing, walking around the area close to the Hotel, a little bit of shopping and foot massage.
5th December 2016
5th December 2016
Just after noon went to Ramesh Mahapatra's room and handed over our passports and other papers that were required and collected a set of T shirts and back packs and a jacket each for the drive. A while later we were allotted the cars and I was given a TATA Safari - Storme. Black in Colour, this was to be our car the next few days while driving from Bangkok to Guwahati through Burma.
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| Our car the TATA Storme, No 12. |
In the evening we were invited for a dinner by the organisers for a briefing of what we can expect on the drive and what is expected of us. The dinner was at Hotel Rembrandt ad was from 7;30 PM till about 10PM.
The briefing was done by Ejji and others added on some information here and there and that was it. We were ready to get going.
It was an early evening as we were expected to pack and be off by 7:30 AM the next morning.
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