Lumphini Park Bangkok

So today was my first full day in Bangkok, I woke up at about half past 9 and thought it was time to get up so i went downstairs to find some breakfast, which i found was provided for free by the hostel which was a nice surprise!

Whilst i was having my breakfast i planned what i wanted to do in Bangkok and where i was going to go today and …

The last week has been my longest time gap between blog entries. Why? I forgot about our travel blog. Why? Because we are in Bangkok.

The journey from Koh Samui to our hotel in central SIlom was almost seamless. It was easy and pleasant which are the first two adjectives I would choose to describe Thailand. However we have seen glimpses, …

We did have an eventful time when we first got to Bangkok! We landed at separate times so once I got in I found Shyler and then we headed out to find a taxi as it was too late to get on the subway! Scam number 1: they charged us 900B to get from the airport the city - it was a long way but had we done the metre taxi it would have been nothing …

_ We arose bright and cheery (!) at 5am to await our ride to our bus to Bangkok. Well, minibus that is. Our hotel had recommended the 'faster' and 'better' route, slightly more upmarket so we were told, to get to Bangkok. This meant we were meant to get there in around six or seven hours as opposed to 10. So, there we were waiting for our …

Is what I've decided Bangkok is like. A 1pm lie in (jetlag honest) we decided on an 'easy day'. Except of course us being us still meant 7 hours walking a totally different side to bangkok. A tuk tuk deposited us in China town where we spent basically 3 hours lost. Which was fine as it was such a maze of tiny alleys and markets there was no point …

October 30th: In the morning we visited the Royal Grand Palace. Afterwards we bought good luck and prosperity amulets for our family and loved ones. In the afternoon we took a walk to the Lumphini park and the Muay Thai boxing stadium. After dinner at the Seafood market, we had a scaryTukTuk drive back to the hotel for a final drink …

The plan was to go to a snake farm. So we got on the skytrain and got off at the stop nearest the farm. However, as we descended the stairs we found ourselves in the middle of the biggest (?) water fight in the world.

There were stands lining the street selling water pistols, bottles of water and buckets of paste (a flour and water …

Wir sind gut an unserem esten Ziel Bangkok angekommen und wurden Abends am Flughafen erst einmal von schwül warmen 32 Grad oder so begrüßt. Dann ging's ab mit dem Bus (wir sind ja echte Backpacker und fahren nicht mit dem Taxi) zu unserem Hostel.
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We spent a lovely evening spent with Laura and Aaron (our last with them in Thailand, but hopefully see them in Sydney next year), where we had some nice food and a cockroach fell on Rebecca's shoulder and took some persuading to leave. We planned to head to Kanchanburi in the afternoon, but first we'd been advised to visit Lumphini Park, the …

... for the better after leaving the more tourist-frequented areas. We wandered through the old town and some market place before heading to Lumphini Park in hopes of catching a Thai Boxing match. Turns out there were none at that sight today, but we'll be ...

... again back to the 28th, following our walk around the Royal Palace/Old Town and evasion of the touts, we took a bus + subway to Lumphini Park in hopes of catching a boxing match. As we exited the subway, we asked a lady running one of the food stalls ...

... you could spend at least a day or two in this one alone to get around. We then took a walk down passed the massive Lumphini Park towards Patpong where we were going out to meet another sibling of our friend Marcus who had the brother Tim in Sydney. He ...

... were retrieved (thanks Sarah and Anthony from F1 photos; hawthorn!!). Also spent a relaxing afternoon playing scrabble and cards in Lumphini Park; an oasis of greeness in the middle of a concrete maze. Puzzled to see an elderly western lady riding ...

... we'd pass by huge Wats, temples, and be in awe of golden Buddha's standing over 40 feet high. I think our favorite was Lumphini park where we were able to paddleboat lazily on it's central lake and watch three separate groups sweating up a storm to ...

... ast night, today was a bit of a slow one to say the least. In the afternoon we did take a walk to, and around, Lumphini Park which was quite pleasant. Then in the evening we went out for pizza. A pretty dull day really...but I suppose I deserved it! ...

... had traditional Thai dancers (although their singing has a weird off-key sound...its probably meant to be like that...!). Walked to Lumphini Park which is similar in its exercise ways to Central Park in NY - loads of people running, rollerblading and ...

... although it did become fairly stressful, but more about that later...). We took a Taxi-Meter (the seemingly only safe option) to Lumphini Park - a verdant oasis in the heart of the concrete metropolis, whereby we found a place by the lake to rest our ...

Bangkok, Thailand - Arriving into Suvarnabhumi International airport in Bangkok, I am greeted by another airport that HSBC has thrown up on!! Do you think they had an ATM at the airport? No! In Bangkok itself? It took a week to find! Shocking! Since I ...

08:41 So we arrived in Bangkok at 6 near Ko San Road whereupon I got in a taxi to my hostel ETZzz Hostel near Lumphini Park. What a palaver! This was the most melodramatic performance by a taxi driver I have ever seen. Before getting in the taxi I had ...