Centre Point Silom

We arrived early in the morning around 3am and luckily read the part in the guide book that talked about the cab drivers who pretend not to know where the hotel is in order to bump up the meter!  Thankfully I had the address and Dan had the ...

I am happy to report that I am now in Bangkok, back in my lovely modern 'serviced apartment' at the Centre Point Silom on the Chao Phraya River.  I plan to have a thoroughly boring week here, integrating and transitioning back into the developed ...

I am now on the 15th floor of the centre point silom 'serviced apartments' in Bangkok overlooking the chao phraya river. God only knows what day or time it is, but I certainly enjoyed a regal breakfast spread, rather groggily, i might add, from 20 hours ...

... named Khan's. David, the local tailor from Jaipur, India, recommended it to us on a previous trip. It's walking distance from the Centre Point, but there's no way we'd have found it without his directions. The trick is a shortcut under a freeway on a ...

... length and are one of the largest lizards in the world! After having fun in the park, we exited at Silom Station, where we walked to Centre Point Mall and got an amazing crepe each (filled with ice-cream, chocolate sauce, bananas, cereal flakes, whipped ...

... . On the North side of the road are Siam Discovery, Siam Centre and the massive Siam Paragon. On the south side is Centre Point which is a popular hangout for Thai teenagers. Many trendy small shops in this area. Going North: N1 Ratchathewi - This ...

... suite that we think is bigger than our condo at home. Couldn't get into the room until 2 PM so K took a shower in the fitness center and we headed (relatively) fresh air.  This being the "cool" season, the high of the day was only 86.....ha!  ...

... the back of her seat for all to see, made me gag!!! :-) We checked into our lovely executive apartment in an area called Silom, great location for the sky train, we took the train to Siam which is just amazing, massive new shopping complex's with loads ...

... hailing down a tuk tuk. Our plan was to get the tuk tuk a short distance to Chao Phraya River which goes through the centre of bangkok, and catching a ferry along it to the various temples we planned to visit that day. Along the way the tuk tuk driver ...

... are still protruding from the ground, clothing is still everywhere within the mass graves, skulls stacked up in the pavilion in the center of the mass graves. There are about 40 mass graves in this site. We wandered solemnly through them and again the ...

... . On our way to Chinatown we passed the first impressive looking temple and explored inside. The temple had a golden Buddha as it centre piece and was our first viewing of any such temple. When we reached Chinatown it was alive with frenetic energy. It ...

... in with my boys 18mths before. Much nicer now though and much improved! We ate Authentic Thai food from the Siam Village & trade centre just on Silom rd. and let me add it was very nice indeed YUM. They also put on a small show there for the guests ...

... to the top of the steps and went inside the temple which consisted of Buddha statues and a gold bell shaped statue in the very centre. We left the temple and checked out the views, which were amazing as you can see pretty much the whole of Bangkok as you ...

... area, so we made a spur of the moment decision to escape the Indian gem magnate, and headed to the MBK shopping centre. It was enormous – 6 floors of very rambling stores, more like market units than shops. We wandered, but amazingly didn’t ...

... are declining due to development.  The first day I arrived I wandered around a bit, ate at a Japanese! restaurant at a local shopping centre, but there is a lot of street food and markets around where I am staying.  And then I tried to have a ...

... our luggage and navigated as far as the level 2 of the airport we were bombarded with offers of taxis left right and centre. Luckily our trusty Lonely Planet had warned us that these 'taxis' were infact the mega expensive limo taxis that cost a fortune. ...

... headed to a mall to get some food, as recommended by the reception lady.  There were around 30 stalls serving food in the United Center (the name of the mall) and we looked at each.  We settled on a place that looked good, and that we could ...