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"City of Angels" or "Venice of the East"?
Yeah, so I'm a little behind on the updates, I've been busy. ;-)
So after 4 weeks in Hua Hin we made the 3 hour drive north to Bangkok and our new accommodations at the lovely Chateau De Bangkok. Bangkok, which apparently means City of Angels or City of the Divine is also known by tourists as the Venice of the East. I've heard Venice …
And thus it ends (at least the school part)
Just a quick note, and no pictures.
I can't believe after 11 months that this experience is coming to an end. The last few weeks have been a headache trying to get my capstone done as well as my research paper of South East Asia. But after all that work I have completed a 60 page capstone on Culture in Conflict regions and a 20 page paper …
Finally here in Bangkok
Well, we finally arrived, after a 10hour delay in Melbourne, getting on and off the plane a couple of times, and eating everything in the Qantas Lounge, we finally got onboard, got out of Melbourne and arrived here at 4:00am. After all the hype about the security of our bags, not having a visa and not knowing the language, I think our flight caught …
The many sides of Bangkok
... interest - except a universal adaptor (our one only worked in some places...) we left to scour the more upmarket mall. Very similar to most North American malls. It was remarkable we managed to not purchase anything - a new record we think. After shopping we went to a modern Thai restaurant and enjoyed a set menu with a wide variety of different dishes - stir fried veggies, spicy Thai salad, an amazing braised pork and cashew nut dish, chicken green curry, ...
Bangkok weekend market then travel
... can see many fluid loops as if he goes side to side and when he reaches the edge, he just circles back around. After he has finished it is a street scene of Chinatown Bangkok. You can see the tuk-tuks and chaos in the streets. Then he fills in random (well, they are probably not random to the artist) holes or squares with one of three or four distinct colors he uses throughout the painting. Because the original blank paint was used to accentuate outlines and shapes, ...