Day 36 Fri 6 October 2006 Bangkok, Thailand

October 07, 2006

Day 36 Fri 6 October 2006 Bangkok, Thailand

No driving today! Instead we sampled the variety of BKK’s public transport include metro, sky train, river boat, tuk-tuk and foot. An exhausting but interesting day visiting temples although we have now seen enough gold buddhas to last for several years. The river was in full flood with sandbags being placed around all the ferry landings. Much of the buildings along the river bank are well below the river level protected by levies or walls which were in danger of being over-flowed.

Weather 30 Cloudy
Distance today 0
Distance from start 7382km

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WELCOME

Welcome to IntrepidToo - a journey around the world by road and sea. What started as a road trip from Sydney to Europe in a BMW X5 became the Clipper Round the World yacht race, sailing from Sydney to New York, and more recently a catamaran cruise along the Central American coast.

The road trip marked the completion of the Asian Highway Project, a UN sponsored initiative to provide a common standard road network linking all the countries of Asia with Europe. Along the way it entailed visiting as many UNESCO World Heritage sites as possible.

Due for imminent completion, our task was to find out how far they've got. It was also a quest to find the best creme brulee between Sydney and Sweden and the best margaritas outside Mexico.

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is an 11 month long, 40,000nm race for amateur sailors in 12 identical 70' racing yachts, each with a crew of 18 and a professional skipper. We join in Australia for the legs to China, then across the North Pacific to Seattle and via the Panama Canal to New York, a voyage equivalent to the circumference of the globe.

It's also an occasional tale of continuing meanderings around the Middle East, Africa, Asia and anywhere else which takes our fancy.