“Taxi!” Getting to Bangkok, dead or alive!

Goodbye Australia! Hello ‘sawat dii‘ Bangkok!

Wow! We have finally left the Western world and arrived in Asia. The next stage of our adventure! We disembarked the aeroplane at 1am and started walking the 1.5km through the enormous airport to find the exit. The first obstacle in our way was to find which section of immigration we needed to pass through. There were big crowds as immigration here in Thailand is a super-thorough process, involving having passports and tickets checked and double-checked and then photos taken for visas. The kids were very tired after the 9 hour flight and according to their body-clocks, it was 5 am Sydney time. We were stood in line behind the 2,000 others waiting (mainly Chinese), and we noticed that some people had started to turn around to take photos of Rosie. It was not really the time and place- luckily, the wonderful immigration officials obviously took pity on us, and they ushered us to pass through to the front! We were checked, stamped and out within half an hour! Brilliant!