Sukhumvit Road street market Bangkok

Aujourd'hui je devais changer d’hôtel en fin de matinée parce que mon circuit Contiki commençait le soir au Viengtai Hotel, à l’autre bout de la ville, dans la partie ultra touristique. Après-midi je suis parti voir cette partie de ville donc, de grands marchés à touristes où tout est fait pour les touristes. Pas typique du tout, sauf …

We wake up around 9 and stumble down for breakfast. Now that we feel a bit better, we take a taxi to Siam Square and Sukhumvit with only one thing on our minds... SHOPPING!

We start off at a luxury mall with shops like Chanel and Versace it's a great place for buying nice outfits, but not so suitable for the bargain shopping everyone told …

Immediately upon arrival at Bangkok airport it hit us that we were in a completely different world from India. Bangkok is extremely modern with its skyscrapers, metro and skytrain all blending in with pockets of magnificent temples and pagodas. It appeared closer to what I expect Hong Kong to look like than I had expected and there was none of the …

dag 42: Vandaag gaat de reis weer terug naar Bangkok en dan is ons rondje compleet. We vertrekken 's ochtends om half 8 en de reis zou volledig met een grote bus zijn. De reis zou ongeveer 8 uur duren waarvan er maar een uur of 6 gereden werd, de rest van de tijd sta je te wachten bij de douane. Ze zijn hier in zuidoost Azie namelijk niet zo snel. …

I started my last day in Bangkok with a shopping tour to Pantip Plaza. As the mall was still closed, I walked around the street in this area, but it was again looking like all the other streets I already walked along in Bangkok. After 10:00 a.m. I was walking through all the levels of this IT shopping center, but I could not find the things for my …