Mini Angkor Wat Bangkok

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, …

Arrived back in Bangkok after so called 9 hour bus ride, but forgot we back in thai time and it was a so called 12!! But at least the bus wasn't so bad.
Spent 1st day chilling by the pool then went out to see club asia about the refund and a wonder to see about trips, went into agent that helped us saying not to do trip to do it on our own, so …

DAY 1
We finally arrived tired and minging after the big big bus jaunt. Dazed and confused we stepped off the bus at the one of the many bus stations in the big city. We made our way to the taxi rank at the lovely hour of seven o'clock in the morning (a time the consistently invokes horror). Neither of us had slept since the night before.Ill …

Our original plan was to do a bit of island hopping around south Thailand. However, we kind of figured that they'd all be fairly similar, and as we were planning to spend some time there later anyhow. So we booked another overnight sleeper to Bangkok. This train was serviced by Thai railways, so was a bit more comfortable. It was the first time we …

... during the war with the Burmese in 1767.  For those of you who have been to Cambodia, it is like a mini Angkor Wat, although on a much much smaller scale.  We also visited the King of Thailand's summer residence which was beautiful and very ...

... our life...through dusty, muddy roads which had more pot holes (or craters) than flat parts...arrived at a temple known as the mini angkor wat, which loclas say was the inspiration for it - trekked up the 389 steps to the top and met some little kids ...

... and impressive buildings clustered together, all beautifully carved and decorated with gold and sparkling tiles. There was even a mini Angkor Wat. All the way round the courtyard were beautiful murals depicting scenes from ancient myths and the whole ...

... nbsp; But wearing clothes that covered both arms and legs was a little more than warm! The buildings were beautiful there was a mini Angkor Wat that took us back a couple of months and many golden shrines! After melting in The Grand Palace we headed to ...

... , but nothing to write home about, which may seem confusing considering that's exactly what we're doing.  The mini Angkor Wat was (understandably) less impressive than the real Angkor Wat and the sword museum almost turned us into royal thieves. We ...