Central World Plaza Bangkok

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Wczesnie rano o 5:00 podjechal pod nas busik ktory mial nas podwiezc do Bangkoku. Tomka i Monike na lotnisko a nas do hotelu. Mamy jeden nocleg w Bangkoku zeby nastepnego dnia wyruszyc na poludnie Tajlandii na piekne plaze w rejonie Krabi.

Dojechalismy do Bangkoku okolo 8:00, pozegnalismy sie z Monia i Tomkiem i pojechalismy do naszego …

Being my favourite day of the year I always have high expectations for New Years eve, so it's a rare occasion for it to live up the dream. This year however I must say I set my standards so high, dreaming of celebrating the start of a whole new adventure in a whole new country, that I didn't even begin to think of the troubles that could come along …

Yingluck (the Red State and sister of the disposed in-discgrace criminal Thaksin, currently hiding out like Roman Polanski in Dubai) won against Abhisit (the Blue State)...those definitions are entirely different in Bangkok. But I'll skip politics...because I wrote about gamblers, aliens, cults and science vs. religion. And got a killer Thai …

The journey to Bangkok from Koh Tao turned out to be an extremely easy one; a nice wee bus journey up the southern peninsula straight into the heart of Khao San Road – Bangkok's backpacker haven. It’s hard to describe this place, it’s not overly commercial, there are no high rise buildings, but there are guesthouses and hostels …

After our time in Malaysia we continued to Thailand. We visited couple of places.....In this post I will include: Bangkok, Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Ayutthaya, Lopburi and in the next post I will include Ko Chang.

Bangkok......Awesome city - ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS PLACE... there are so many things to do, to enjoy. However I have to say …

... to visit us for Christmas and early New Year) and explored Siam Square and the huge shopping malls such as the Central World Plaza (newly renovated after Red Shirt protests), the Paragon Centre and Platinum Centre. In a designer mall we were astonished ...

... is easy and cheap on the Skytrain (A/Ced) and the subway. V spick and span! A rush stop on way back in the Central World Plaza! Massive and far too posh for us ... well ME! Puts American malls to shame! Quick change and out risking life and limb ...

... make the most of the home comforts of a large city, and decided to go to the cinema. We caught the skytrain to the Central World Plaza - another huge shopping centre not far from where we'de been earlier. We got to wander past all the fancy hotels; Four ...

... included Emporium Shopping Centre (all the wealthy stuff), MBK (cheap knock offs), Siam Center (home furniture) and Central World Plaza (huge!) The morning after breakfast, we wandered out onto the streets, argued with the tuk-tuk drivers ...

... cafe around the corner from her work and my hotel. Afterwards I got to try the very efficient BTS railway up to Central to do a little shopping. Bangkok is not as cheap as it used to be...and I came to the conclusion than many items were just as cheap ...

... to them as well.  I drove by the site today in a taxi where the largest bombing took place, at the Central World Plaza, Bangkok’s largest shopping centre.  Sure enough, the bombing had completely obliterated a large section of the 5 level ...

... ready for the New Year? Well, we welcomed 2008 with thousands and thousands of Thais (and "a few" tourists) at the Central World plaza. All evening there were performances by what seemed to be very popular singers (of course for us it's all ...

... in bed an watched tv all day. They missed out, but they were happy, so whatever! In the evening we got a cab to Central World Plaza - Mike had heard its trhe biggest shopping centre in Asia, so thought we must ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out. ...

... loud music being played until the very early hours. We had our free breakfast at the hotel before catching a taxi to the Central World Plaza mall. We didn’t stay here long though because it was full of western shops, including Topshop, so the ...

... store or cafe proved to be EXTREMELY difficult.     We rested, after our excursion through Central World Plaza, at Starbucks, and felt quite like touristic yuppies, so we left. Crazy Erawan:     ...