Bangkok

We ended up spending more than one night in Bangkok! It was one giant, hectic, smelly, beautiful, eye-opening city – and there was tons to see and do. Bangkok was very different than any city I’ve been to this trip because it was by far the most developed. The sky train system was sophisticated, and much more efficient than Vancouver’s in many ways. We used it everyday, and for two direction-challenged fools such as Alex and I, it was a god send. We spent our first day at the giant malls in Siam square, which had every high end store you could possibly think of. At night we went to the 4D movie theatre to see Planet of the Apes, and loved the shaking seats, wind blasts and scent release that came with the show. We actually had no problem spending the entire day in the mall, and took full advantage of the wide food selections (as per usual).

The next day we ventured over to the famous Khao San Road. There was all sorts of weird things here – like fried scorpion on a stick. The vendors were selling the usual tourist favourites, but in a vast selection, and at competitive prices. At night time the streets were lit up by lanterns and open-flamed stoves on the food carts.

After spending more time at the mega mall and frequenting the street food vendors outside our hotel, we spent our last day in Muang Boran – The “Ancient City”. It was a giant park that had many famous statues and landmarks from all over Thailand. We road bicycles through the park, and it was really cool; but it would have been way cooler if tourists didn’t get charged an admission fee that was that was about 7 times the price locals are charged.

We finished up with a very expensive dinner at a very fancy restaurant simply because we managed to get lost for 2 hours looking for a particular restaurant we wanted to try. After getting fed up we declared that the next freaking restaurant we saw was going to be the one we ate at, and of course you can’t undo a statement like that.