Continuing with the Thailand theme (next trip up there this coming weekend thanks very much), I took my girlfriend up to Bangkok a couple of weeks ago. Brave you may say, and still in two minds about what she made of it all. It is one crazy city.
Its quickly become one of my favourite cities to visit, only two hours from Singapore and very interesting interesting in every sense of the word. Population ten million plus, hot, smelly, stuff going on everywhere you look. It is not a relaxing trip away by any means, but highly recommended - by me.
Train through the middle of town, I love this kind of stuff...
In the 'old town' its all about the Canals. Here's one with a longboat-full of tourists cruising around...
And a few more longboats stashed along the river, waiting for the 'not-so-quiet times'...
We hired a longboat and did a cruise along the canals. Fascinating stuff... people literally living on the water. And ladies in other boats that come up and sell you beer. Happy days...
Back on solid ground, and walking through Chinatown. This was a seafood stall, which smelled wonderful in the heat of the Bangkok day...
Once the sun goes down, vans parked along the street become makeshift party-centrals, which is quite frankly completely awesome...
And the view from the top of the Banyan Tree, where I believe a scene from The Hangover 2 was filmed... will have to take their word for it as have not seen it yet...
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