When we arrived in Bangkok last night, we were surprised by the amazing modernity and cleanliness of the new international airport. We took a taxi to our hostel and avoided getting ripped off! yay! Anyway, this morning we slept in and then tried to make up our mind about what to do with the day. We decided to follow the suggestion of a tour around the main temples and Grand Palace. We were promised we would get around all day spending less than 80 baht each on transport... We walked to the canal from our hostel and waited for a boat-bus to pass. When it finally came, it turned out to be like a giant canoe type boat with nearly a hundred Thai people sticking out from everywhere! We managed to jump on board (they barely even stop...) and after a little confusion made it to the final stop of that boat-bus. From there we walked around, went into a temple we didn't know (and still aren't sure which one it was) and then followed the main road until we finally found a big square with lots and lots of people on it. It seemed to be some kind of exposition about a member of the royal family and must have been the number one activity to do on a saturday for the entire Thai population! We got tired of the crowd really fast and just wanted to get out of there. So we walked around looking for the entrance to the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaeo temple. We actually walked all around the outer walls (about 2 km) until we nearly got back to where we'd started and found the entrance right there where we hadn't looked! The temple was very nice; very impressive; lots of gold everywhere and also a lot of people... Unfortunately to visit the temples, you have to wear long trousers and therefore melt in the exhausting heat! Anyway, after seeing everything we wanted to see, we walked back out to the street and into a little food market place. We bought some pork satay sticks that looked pretty good and had that for lunch. We visited one last temple, the Wat Pho, where we saw a huge 46-meter long Buddha lying down. The rest of the temple was also very nice. From there we took a boat over the Chao Praya river up to where we could catch the skytrain (like a metro above ground) back to our hostel. For dinner we went to a little street food court and had some kind of curry chicken that turned out to be insanely spicy, but very good! We're both hoping our stomachs can cope with it...
Weather: very hot, kind of sunny, but it looked cloudy due to the air pollution...
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oui c'est sur...il y a plus de monde qu'en Australie, il fait plus chaud que sur les glaciers de nouvelle zelande..et il faut faire attention à la "tourista" avec la nouriture !! mais quand vs serez sur une plage de sable blanc sous les palmiers avec une eau à 28 degré..( sans requins j'espere..) tout ira bien.
ns on part vendredi à New York
bisou
papa
PS: comme vs le savez sans doute c'est un peu agité politiquement à Bangkok actuelement alors quand vs voyez "a big suare with lots of people "....you just go elswhere...
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