Day 156. Saraburi - Cha Am
Down the motorway this morning, the traffic was quite busy and it got busier the closer we got to Bangkok. By the time we hit the outer suburbs it was really busy but at least it was moving except for a couple of pinch points. We spied a tollway up ahead so I took the ramp up to the toll booth. No go, they insisted we turn around and go back. I said absolutely not, I am not driving the wrong way down a ramp in Bangkok, are you mad! So the cops were called passports shown, number plate photographed and we got to drive on the tollway as far as the first offramp. So that’s twice now we have had police escorts to see us off motorways. Tomtom then took over but it was confusing until I changed the settings to avoid tollways. We navigated our way through Bangkok, thank goodness it was a Sunday. After we cleared the southern suburbs the route took us off the motorway along a good but narrow road. We wound through lovely little villages and ...