This entry is for the 5th to the 8th May At the end of our trip through the Mekong and into and through Cambodia, we ended up in Bangkok and decided to book into a hotel for a few nights to regroup. We needed to regroup as we are now back by ourselves and making our own travel arrangments. The hotel is great and does have a pool to dip in when i...

Bangkok is rarely referred with this name by Thais, who call it Krug Thep, the City of Angels. This is the abbreviated version of the name featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest name for a capital: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniw...

Ogled zivalskega vrta v Bangkoku, ki pa je bil zal prehitro zakljucen, ker je bil dez premocen, da bi lahko hodili naokoli. Ulice so bile poplavljene, scurki povsod, tu in tam tudi kaksna miska :) Uspeli smo si tudi zrihtati vse potrebne karte in vozovnice za celotno popotovanje ter vizo za Vietnam. Slike zvecer, ko bo vec casa.

Cast of Characters The trip was an all-male November affair (I really waited to write this one), though it was originally supposed to include one female. Two of the guys are teachers at my school in Korea, Incheon English Village. Matt is an eccentric former trucker from Oklahoma, who is a great pianist and thus teaches Mozart. Randal is a very ...

New Year's Eve was pretty chill. We didn't even head out until after 10:00. We had a couple of beers as we walked a few blocks to Central World, the main gathering area. I guess it's the equivalent of Times Square. We never drink, so a couple of Singha were all we needed. There was a concert, lots of revelers, a countdown in Thai, and so it felt...

We have been in bangkok now for a few days in the Khao San Road area. It's been pretty cool and we were able to adjust to the time pretty quickly. Khao San was a pretty nice place to transition into Thailand, but after a couple days we're ready to head out as it's getting touristy and annoying. While in Bangkok we've done some of the rich cultur...

oh how the time groweth short.....the shadows fall long upon the pavement and the light grudgingly gives way to the darkness. the summer of my discontent is upon me and bearing down like a slow moving locomotive. whenever i describe my situation in the world to people..the 3 months of work and the 9 months off...it always seems like such a great...

My first day in Bangkok was a real mixed bag, but a very very expensive one. The morning i spent wandering the streets trying to get a feel for the place, as well as running a few errands. In the afternoon i made my first friend (or so i thought), when i went to one of the temples i met a guy who worked there called Mr Wicham. He explained to me...

We arrived back in Bangkok from Koh Chang and checked back into the Shangrila. Just enough time to shower and change before walking to the Bangkok Sky tower for dinner. The restaurant is on the 65th floor - basically the roof of the building which does have a rather strange Romanesque dome on top. You walk out of the lift - eventually - and out ...

Bangkok swells to a daily population of around 10 million people, 10% of which are prostitutes. Good thing we were not far from the action. The city is choked with traffic, pollution, corruption, and yet it is the financial capital of the one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Bangkok is not an ancient city, but more a modern city strug...