L.A to Tokyo,
Tokyo to Singapore,
Singapore to Bangkok,
Bangkok to Chang Mai,
Chang Mai to Udon Thani,
Udon Thani to the Ricefield's
It took 23 1/4 hours of flying to make it half way around the world to Thailand. The trip was worth it, but the getting there was seriously not a fun experience. Lets start from the beginning.
Basically, for a little background, Sophie and I decided to go on a Rustic Pathways trip this summer. Rustic is an amazing organization that offers trips for teens all over the world. Here is a link to their website, http://www.rusticpathways.com/usa, definitely worth checking out.
Back to the flights, they started off pretty well, until we left the United States. In LAX we boarded a huge Singapore Airlines plane and trudged to the very very back, where Rustic had gotten us some nice coach seats. Luckily, on the way there, I got an aisle seat. Still it was an uncomfortable ride. If you want an idea of what this section looked like, it was nothing like this, although we did try to sneak up to find these beds.
Our lovely chairs were about the 1/18 the size of that bed above and had a tiny TV jammed in front of it.
I boarded this flight with a huge duffel filled with potential things to do but this turned out to be a dead weight since I barely opened it. One thing I brought was paper and colored pencils, I don't draw at home why on earth did I think I would want to draw something on this plane?! And of course I packed a light ready, Theodore Rex, 555 pages of fun filled times with the former President. Just kidding that was for school and I closed it about two minutes after I attempted to read it.
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| A photo of our enormous, two decker, plane |
Anyways, the flight to Tokyo was about 11 hours, where we got off for them to clean the plane. After we got back on the flying torture chamber it was another 6 or 7 hours to Singapore. There seriously is no way to survive a flight this long... unless you're flying first. The best thing to do is just try to go to sleep, use a sleeping pill, or watch a lot of movies/t.v; whatever you have to do.
One major point is the food is probably the worst thing you will ever eat in your entire life. That is not an exaggeration, just thinking about it now makes me sick. And they offer you this food about every hour. For our flight, there was an asian menu and a western menu, both were pretty gross. Basically, drink a lot of water, pack your own snacks, and do not eat their food unless you have a death wish.
Long story short, we had a seven hour layover in Singapore, starting at 2 a.m their time, then another flight to Bangkok, once we met up with the NY kids who were also flying with Rustic Pathways to Thailand. In Bangkok we said goodbye to our new friends, turns out flying for almost a day with someone is a really good bonding experience. They went off on other programs in Thailand, while lucky us still had ANOTHER flight to another city.
It took this last flight and a two hour bus ride to finally make it to the Ricefield's base near Udon Thani, a city next to us. Check out the next post for the whole story of our crazy fun time in Thailand...
XOXOXO Rana
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