Culture tour Bangkok

... . This was a beautiful example of a typical Thai temple. It houses one of the biggest collections of Buddha’s in Thailand. I’ve read that Bangkok, as well has having on of the world’s largest populations at some 12 millions, it is also ...

I arrived in Bangkok Thailand, exhausted, sick, and culture shocked. It took me one week, two Thai massages and four days on the island of Ko Chang to regain my composure. My first night out in Bangkok, I was treated to dinner at an Irish pub with ...

... though, making-up for the let-down.    We needed to escape our boredom, so needed to escape Bangkok, and indeed Thailand entirely given the unrest being released in other provincial cities.  We could have taken one of the numerous ...

... how time flies and as my step mom once remarked how much I fly. I had been in Bangkok twice before, once when I first arrived in Thailand last July and coincidentally the day the Thaksin regime was overthrown in the coup d'etat on September 19th. ...

... where we did infact have a fairly uneventful landing after all that...phew!!! So here we are in Bangkok, and to be honest it's a bit of a culture shock. It's so modern and westernised....there are big cars, proper roads without potholes, people wearing ...

... frenzy of India or Cairo. Perhaps the truest test is the reaction of Todd's parents to their Bangkok experience...they didn't seem to experience a single symptom of culture shock. They have been good sports and have let us drag them all around the ...

Well we have arrived in Thailand, third country on the list and thank god it's warm again! The biggest shock when we arrived was it was 31 degrees at 7pm and everyone was walking around naked! Well not naked but compared to India and China they were and ...

... that we have seen that Thailand is more than just it's capital, we have a deeper sense of the place and culture that we are experiencing. Bangkok is such an international and advanced city that it is easy to forget, as you ride high above the city ...

Arrived at 8pm at the hotel and got quite a culture shock.. not sure if we actually like staying 5 star... but give me a day and Im sure Ill adjust haha.... Anyway.. hotel is lovely and things worked out exactly as planned. We spent the two days ...

... company on 14th May, the date i left Nepal. I'm still in regular touch with both of them. I flew across to Thailand where, after 2 nights in Bangkok where i partied hard with a brilliant group of people and had my eye brow pierced, i re-united with ...