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Day 20 - Lahore to Bangkok 

Our tour was officially over and we weren't leaving until almost midnight so we had a day to spend in Lahore. We enjoyed a leisurely breakfast before we battled the streets, negotiating the roadside motorbike parking areas on our 20 minute walk to a nearby government handicrafts store for a few last minute purchases. 

We found that the shop (Pakistan Handicrafts Shop) had the best range of all the shops we'd visited, however it didn't have the tiles K had missed buying earlier in the trip.

We hung out at the hotel for the afternoon, had dinner there and then took the hotel car to the airport around 8:30pm, the trip taking about 40 minutes in dense traffic.

Lahore airport was chaotic and normal rules at passport control like waiting your turn were not in play, instead of a normal queue people were squashed around the desks. Security was heavy and thorough with multiple check points (probably for the best as a suicide bomber had killed 11 people in Islamabad a week earlier). K had to go through separate women's checkpoint, for some reason they asked if her husband was Pakistani.

We found that the upstairs dining area was quiet so we waited there until we boarded our flight to Bankgok around 11:30pm, getting away pretty much on schedule.