Bangkok Palace

My god I can't believe we've only been away for 2 weeks!! Been having an absolute ball. Bangkok is an experience. Khao San Road is where all the travellers convene and it's a DUMP! The smell is rank. It's the dirtiest most polluted city we've ever seen. We ...

... his company!).  We made it out in the afternoon to the Grand Palace, after our Tuk Tuk driver took us to the Bangkok Palace hotel by mistake.  A combination of leaving late, going to the wrong place and Bangkok traffic meant we got there just ...

Day 1 - 23/4/05 (Sat) Boarded TG404 to Bangkok...reached Bangkok Palace around 1530 (Bangkok time). After dumping our lugguges at the room, we headed for MBK for SHOPPING!! Ate at the Jap restaurant there, and Alf bought jeans for me..then, we went to ...

... big government buildings and beautiful wats. We took an express boat down Chao Praya to the Oriental hotel and discovered the Bangkok gems district - a street lined up with small jewelry shops selling coulourful gems. None of us was much ...

Hi all! We arrived safe & sound (obviously!) in Bangkok & have now had 3 nights here - this is our 3rd day in this mad chaotic city!! Our guest house is the Khao San Palace Inn which is 550bhat per night ($21NZ), not really roughing it yet ...

... whatsoever. needless to say i was shittin myself and trusted absolutely nobody. i spent the first 3 days in the middle of bangkok without seeing a western face. the days were consumed by sunbathin by the pools and lovin the thai girls giggling at me, ...

... anything spectacular, though. We jumped on the sky train and headed for MBK mall, but somehow entered another one. In Bangkok you can walk for hours entering from one mall to another, without even realizing it. Our first stop was McDonald's, as ...

... hot sit passangers) and kindly allowed us to have early disembarked. Alhamdulillah we manage to catch our flights and reach Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport safely. From airport to Bangkok city centre is approximately 30minutes drive.Since there are 7 of us ...

This day our plan was to visit the key Bangkok attractions: The Grand Palace, Temple of Emerald Buddha, Temple of Reclining Buddha and if possible, the Vinanmek Mansion, the biggest teak-wood palace. It was also Mihaela's birthday, but in the morning she ...