We Stopped in Bangkok

After saying goodbye to our families and trying to watch a bit of cricket in the departure lounge, we boarded our flight to Bangkok. The flight was very good and the aeroplane and food was top notch. Our first day in Bangkok yesterday we did some tourist stuff that we missed out on last time like going to the Dusit Zoo (and the worlds only now missing Albino Barking Deer) and checking out the Dusit Palace grounds and surrounding exhibitions. The palace grounds had lots to see but we were apparently underdressed and so Esther and I had to wear all sorts of scarves and cloths to cover ourselves - once I even had to wear some enormous puffy blue pants, which I decided to wear around my armpits to emphasise the ridiculousness of the situation. Oh and also no shoes and no cameras, so we don't have much to show for most of that day.

We also viewed one of the many exhibitions of the King of Thailand's photos. He also obviously thinks he is also the King of Photography, but he is not. There were all sorts of "interesting" photos of things like irrigation. The caption below the irrigation photo was this "His Majesty once said "I have had an interest in irrigation since early childhood" ". Havn't we all? Another humourous caption outlined how the king had saved people from a flood by taking "excelent photographs" so the engineers could understand what the problem was. Pure genious. We also went on the wildest Tuk Tuk ride of my life, I think this guy wasn't too happy with my negotiated price so he was trying to kill us, but we emerged unscathed at the other end.

This morning we have been down to MBK again and walking around some markets. We managed to find the filthiest and cleanest places in Bangkok and they are almost on the same block. This afternoon we're going to catch the skytrain down to Patpong to the night markets / red light district and see what happens there on a Tuesday night.

Check out a few of our Bangkok photos here