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Travel Blogs from Bangkok
Back in Bangkok
Just a few days more of Asia, and then we are headed back to the west. Getting my fill of pad thai, thai ice tea, mango and sticky rice and all the other asian things we have come to love. Busy roads, crazed people and the like.
Sky(train)fall
... very low and it was a long step down from the dock, and then the realisation of how unstable it was hit us. Long-tail boats are long, thin, flat bottomed boats about fifty feet long but about eight feet wide. They have a huge V8 engine mounted to the back on a gimbal, allowing movement for steering, of the fifteen foot prop shaft extending from the engine which has a propeller attached.
The driver started up the un-muffled V8 ...
Bangkok
... naar de andere kant van de stad meegesleurd (1 uur in de file) en heerlijk genoten van het mooie uitzicht. Zometeen het royal palace bezichtigen en hopelijk een mooie rooftopbar bezoeken op 61 hoog om de zonsondergang te bekijken. Zoals jullie lezen vervelen we ons niet echt en doen we het rustig aan! We zijn nu aan het bekijken wat onze volgende stap gaat zijn in Thailand en we zijn zeer enthousiast over de vele keuzes en mooie plekken. Tot de volgende ...
Siem reap and the temples of Angkor
... bleak but it had an ace in the hole, in that it had a roof top beach bar with real sand and cheap drinks, made more dangerous by the fact you could just charge everything to the room! The next day we walked around siem reap feeling mildly hungover from the drinking games the previous night, initiated and managed by the hostels compulsory Scottish man. I think it's fair to say we were completely amazed by the amazing city of siem reap, the long tree lined ...
Buddhas in Bangkok
... of the reclining Buddha, which is huge! And saw Wat Arun, which I was able to climb up and get a great view of Bangkok. I went to see the emerald Buddha at the Grand Palace, which they later discovered is actually made of jade, not emerald. There, I got to try on a traditional silk outfit, which is just two long scarves wrapped around and pinned in a complicated way - would hate to need to go to the toilet once it's on! All of the temples are beautiful, with ...