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| The 'wai' traditional Thai grating |
January 16-20th
Bangkok was a shock to our senses...hot, humid, the smell of fish and fresh fruit on the air, mixed with a hint of fuel and flowers...
What a place! so clean and orderly, cars stay in their lanes, street vendors in abundance and clean food too, but so Hot!
We reveled in the infrastructure, taking the Sky Train and Metro to most of our destinations. Enjoying the air-conditioned mega mall, the i-max theater, and the cheap soft serve ice cream at McDonald's. We ate all the fruit we could possibly stomach, and enjoyed street food as much as possible. We saw a few tourist sights; the National Museum, a Wat or two (Buddist temple), we took a boat down the river, did some shopping Asian style (crowded markets with everything imaginable for sale), and then we left the hustle and bustle of
the city for the mountains of the North
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| Wat Arun and the Mae Nam Chao Phraya River |