Street Food, not our best idea.

We got up at 6am and got walking soon after to help avoid the heat of the day as much as possible. In doing so we missed having breakfast with the monks at Sai Yok Yai so had to grab some along the way. Wandering through a big village market and grabbing BBQed snacks, we tell ourselves we'll find a proper breakfast on the road, which we do! The food was even prompt, a change in Thailand where the wait for a meal can get quite impressive to Europeans. We press on and fast forward a few hours we're already at Sai Yok town, where we stop for iced coffee, Aaron even gets an ice cream!

A pleasant day so far right? 20 minutes after our break we pull up again for another, why not? But in the time it took for a coffee order, Nic's eye is bright red and burning with something in there and Aaron is violently throwing up on the driveway whilst Cris calmly eats peanuts and makes a phone call. Eventually the coffee girl has had enough and calls her brother, who says he'll deliver us to a hospital. In hindsight he probably regrets this, or at least his vomit stained dashboard does...

The hospital is brilliant and sets Nic up to a half an hour saline eye wash out, whilst Aaron dies in the waiting room. When Cris gets bored of mocking Aaron's decision to have ice cream, he heads off to find us accommodation, Aaron is in no state to walk.

By the time the saline drip is done, Nic isn't looking too well either. A nurse kindly drops us off at the hotel (These people! Too nice!) and Nic joins in the vomiting. It wasn't the ice cream. It was the chicken. Before long, all three of us are out of action for almost 3 days. The hotel staff must have found our room terrifying, the usually friendly Thais delivered water and ran! Thong Pha Phum is not remembered fondly.

On the 3rd day we crawled onto the back of taxi mopeds and briefly visited the southern end of Vajiralongkorn Reservoir that covered a good portion of the railway. Looking over the water and the itinerary we'd messed up with our illness, we decided the abandon the days we'd intended to walk round it. As we wouldn't actually be walking near the now underway railway we weren't too disappointed! However, we swore to return to finish the days we'd missed between Sai Yok and Thong Pha Phum after reaching the border!