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  Bangkok, Thailand
Friday, August 24, 2007

It was time for sightseeing as husband and wife; Mr and Mrs Mathew Waters. We had a busy couple of days, but still managed an afternoon siesta most days to escape the heat and humidity.

As the photos show we saw Wat Pho with it's reclining Buddha, Grand palace with it's emerald (which is really jade) Buddha, Ko San road and surrounds, forts, democracy monument, golden mount, gold Buddha, china town, JJ market, royal barge museum, hospital museum, Siam square etc. etc. The hospital museum was particulary gorey and at the same time interesting, we saw a collection of conjoined twins in jars and a forensic investigation section showing pics of victims, bullets and stabed organs in jars.....all in all a bit different and a change from the temples etc.

Bangkok has a surprisingly good public transport system. We most enjoyed traveling on the river by boat, especially at night. We avoided the tuk tuks though, as cute as they are as our taxi driver assured us, they are about double the price of a taxi and are only cooled by the polluted Bangkok air.

The food in Thailand so far has been sooo yummy. All our favourites from home and more, all really cheap, so long as you get at least a street away from touristy areas. Pad thai, soups, green curry, red curry, mussaman curry, and some things we don't even know the name of. Also, there are fresh fruit and juice stalls on every corner which are perfect on a hot day. Added to the thai food is international cuisine, we had some good blue cheese and roast beef baguettes just the other day for just over $3 a piece.

We did a little shopping, Matt contemplated buying a Nintendo DS again, a cartel he concluded when every shop had the same price.......but we left empty handed. The shopping centre at Siam has to be seen to be believed. A highlight for the boys are the car dealerships on the 3rd floor, I guess the guys need to be entertained while the wives shop. But there was to be no Maseratti or Ferrari to be taken home for us that day.

So, we are now about to say goodbye to Bangkok and take in a few places surrounding the city in a bit of a loop, including the infamous "bridge over the river kwai", then we are taking a flight from bangkok to Myanmar/Burma. We picked up the Myanmar visas the other day with no problems, after I counseled matt on the fact it wouldn't be a funny idea to write journalist under the occupation section on the visa application form.

We hope that you are all well. We love hearing from you, so please email soon - we do get a little lonely, and it is nice to have email. Lol Matt and Nicole Waters.

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the old fort at night	another building by the river	monks are VIPs in Thailand	stuff being towed down the bangkok river
a guard at the palace	two cones	a very artistic piece	a buddha with snakes
matt and his cones	the big reclining buddha	and his big feet	a happy gold figurng
more buddhas	nic and her buddha	matt and an elephant roundabout	a big gold cone
a guard of the royal palce	his ugly face	more cones of the royal palace	a stone buddha
guards	the royal roof	the most famous buddha in thailand	little guards
these guys were everywhere	cute aint they	matt and an angry guard	a gold 'thing'
nic and her men	a close up	don't now what this was	the mother cone
the royal elephant	do your fly up	the father of all cone	a horse with his head snapped back
outside the royal palace	nic and her wedding cake	an old stone guy	his friend
matt and a big testicle	and and a three legged man	shot in the head	after the ants got to them
bullets that they found in people	the body of a local rapist	death by dildo	a crosssection of a head
a bloody tuk-tuk	the king is very popular	the freedom monument	my learned thai friends
he helps the poor	and is always thinking	a strange looking buddist temple	buddha overload
the skyline of bangkok	amulats	more amulats	the golden monunment
there everywhere	the biggest gold buddha in the world	Hint the one on the right ain't a chick	wat anthra from the river
ditto	monks on a boat	the bangkok bridge	naked boys froliking in the river

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