After who knows how many hours of travel, we arrived in Bangkok around midnight on Saturday. Cab to the hotel, check in, head out for a beer. The area where we're staying, Banglamphu, is very popular with the backpacking set, and full of young people.
Sunday we walked over to the must-see Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaeo. Wow.
It seems easier at this point to post pics on Picasa rather than embed them in this blog, so for illustrations open a second tab and point it to http://picasaweb.google.com/econodan/SoutheastAsiaWinter2011#. Note that pictures are by both of us.
Monday (today) we took a cab to the train station to buy tickets for tomorrow, then walked down through Chinatown to the river, and took a boat (sort of a bus on the main river through the city) up to the Thonburi area. Walked through a large market, what must be one of the largest hospital complexes anywhere, and eventually to the Royal Barge Museum. After a lot of additional wandering and exploring we finally made it back to the hotel.
I'll try to add more, and write with more zip, soon. Until then, here's hoping the pictures speak for themselves.
No comments:
Post a Comment