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Trip Start Jul 08, 2008
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Trip End Aug 15, 2008


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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

I arrived in Bangkok Monday the 4th.  The plan was to spend two days in the city to get an idea of it and meet up with my future MIT classmate Andrew before he moved back to the states.  After those two days, I would go to a beach town (ended up being 3 nights in Ko Samui and one night in Hua Hin) and return to Bangkok to meet up with Claudio for the last week of the trip. 

From my very first bite of food here - at a random street stall that had better food than any Thai restaurant I'd ever been to elsewhere in the world - I started wondering why I bothered with all those years of Chinese and the semester in Beijing.  I should have been here.  This city is wild, and this country is amazing.  It's definitely the reward at the end of a long trip.

I spent these two days in Bangkok wandering the city from the skytrain, on the river ferries, and through the streets.  I ate a lot, bargained at markets to figure prices for the gifts I want to buy next week, and met up with Andrew at his favorite restaurant in Bangkok.  Ironically, it was a great middle eastern restaurant in the middle of the Muslim area.  You can actually see a photo of it in this recent NY Times article. 

The first two days of Thailand flew by.  But, with my feet on the ground I headed south to the beach. 
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