Thailand Bangkok

This city is a world completly apart from what we have experienced so far. People, traffic jam, buses with no windows, food cart sellers, fresh fruits, heaps of pictures from the queen since on the 12th of august was her birthday. Here in Thailand, her birthday is celebrated like mothers day. But here you ll have 3 days of vacations in addition. By night, the entire city illuminates and it made me feel like christmas in europe. THe only difference is that its warm and not actually christmas. there is the ocasional rain pour, where out of nowhere everything gets heavily irrigated.

Chinatown is a district of the city, that in itself might as well be right in china. everywhere you look you ll see red lampions, chinese writing and an enormous market. you can find everything here, whether you need it or not, i guess anyhow will have troubles not leaving the market with at least one delicacy or local goods.



The grand palace is a little bit of too much of everything. Masaique and gold everywhere you ll look. Very majestic. see for yourself and you will understand what i mean.



Wat Po is famous for its around 50m long lying golden buddha. and apart from the lying buddha, you d see some more bling bling shine buddhas. everything is golden.
seeing all this, it makes me wonder, in how far buddha gautamas preachings are represented in all the gold?




what i really like about bangkok is all the different ways of transportation. apart from the traditional bus, train, metro, skytrain, tuk tuk, taxi... you have boats connecting the entire city with each other. you hop on one side of the city and get off on th other side of town, with no traffic jam. fabolous.
Interestingly we read, that women are not supposed to stand beside a monk or in his area.nor are they allowed to sit next to a monk. in boats, they d even have marked areas to stand.



well, a real highlight of this trip was watching a thai box competition live. Inside the hall thousands of locals gathered to watch the upcoming 6 fights. most of fighers were still kids, but regardless, their power and technique were one of a trained professional. The first contestants out of 6 fights, were hardly older than 15. by the time the fight began, men around us started screaming around to take on bets on the outcome of the fight. By the time the fight has reached the 4th round, the entire crowd started screaming uhhs and ahhs, depending on which contestant they were for.



Our last night in bangkok we had to do one last thing. have a drink on top of the highest skybar of the world. aftr 64 floors the view over the city was breathtaking. it seemed like the city has put its nicest outfit on to make our breath gasp for air.in the background you could hear jazz muscians play, whilst we enjoyed the most expensive investment of our trip. a cocktail.