...yes it's also possible to have some cultural and historical time in Bangkok, so in my week here I have visited the Wat Arun (temple of dawn) and the Grand Palace...
Thai people like colours and it seems obvious from pretty much everything around, the dresses, the taxi, the street food stalls and obviously the temples...
The city has got a river that cuts it from north to south and that is skillfully "abused" as a transportation route by means of long, colourful, boats reminding pretty much Venice steamboats system....
The river itself is also navigated by matresses, dead fish, other private boats, coconuts and pretty much any garbage that manage to merge from the city's canals into it, today I saw even a stuffed Mickey Mouse toy.....
I have come across very weird types around from the hostels to the touristic areas and it seems that Bangkok as city welcomes every type of characters; the amount of tourists and families is pretty impressive....I happened to understand from the news, just today, that they had 18% more arrivals than last year!!
After Pierpan, the korean in Bali, I have met today a chinese young boy from Chengdu that after a simple conversation of few minutes snaps a picture of me or asks me for a selfie with him...it must be a very asian thing to do, maybe to show their white/western "friends"?? it's very funny.....
Thai people like colours and it seems obvious from pretty much everything around, the dresses, the taxi, the street food stalls and obviously the temples...
The city has got a river that cuts it from north to south and that is skillfully "abused" as a transportation route by means of long, colourful, boats reminding pretty much Venice steamboats system....
The river itself is also navigated by matresses, dead fish, other private boats, coconuts and pretty much any garbage that manage to merge from the city's canals into it, today I saw even a stuffed Mickey Mouse toy.....
I have come across very weird types around from the hostels to the touristic areas and it seems that Bangkok as city welcomes every type of characters; the amount of tourists and families is pretty impressive....I happened to understand from the news, just today, that they had 18% more arrivals than last year!!
After Pierpan, the korean in Bali, I have met today a chinese young boy from Chengdu that after a simple conversation of few minutes snaps a picture of me or asks me for a selfie with him...it must be a very asian thing to do, maybe to show their white/western "friends"?? it's very funny.....
Grand Palace: does it give the idea of how crowded it gets?
Wat Arun: just in the middle of a massive restoration, but still very beautiful...
mobile street food...(note the meat cooking, on the go, on the convenient barbecue installed at the back!!)....simply brilliant
today's late breakfast: vegetarian Pad Thai
No comments:
Post a Comment