Some Photos






Gav:Hey folks. Just a few piccies from our crappy disposable camera! From the top left:
We went to the Correction Museum last week. The prison was knocked down a few years ago to make way for a funky little park but many of the buildings are still there. This was a pretty hard core prison in Bangkok and we saw all the methods of torture that the Thais used to use against their prisoners.(link to virtual tour http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/misc/prison/1a.html)
The dark pictures are in the forensic museum at the hospital here.It was weird! Cases full of skulls of people who'd been shot, different body parts in formaldahide.I doubt that we could get away with it in England, but it's a bit like the top floor of Madam Tuasauds in Blackpool....but for real.Sue's stood next to Thailands most notorious serial killer (don't worry he's pickled). Siu Yup he was called.Apparantly he used to eat people. We were speaking to our Thai mate here who told us when he was a kid his mother used to joke that if he stayed out too late he would be eaten alive by Siu Yup! What a great sense of humour??!!! He is still being counselled.
I'm stood next to the largest testicles in the world, which was whipped of this guy after he died. It could of been the worlds biggest T-bag for all we knew.The jungle villages over here are open to all kinds of disease and this was Elephantitis. (link- http://www.bangkok-photos.com/frameme.php?page=bangkok-museums.htm )
The middle two are on the site of the correction museum. It's really strange because you've got this serene little park in the middle of quite a poor area of Bangkok and the when the Thai authorities knocked down the old prison they left the look-outs up, just to remind the people I think.
The bottom one is the only picture I got at the refugee camp and thats Henry, a yankie guy, getting in the way!Top time there, we met some great people. Heres a youtube link to a similar camp not far from this one-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZ7E-ts7eU. I'll post more soon just going out for something to eat (not that you're really interested in that)

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