I don't even know where to begin here, Bangkok is well, A BIG CITY!!! A really big city. On Saturday we planned to go see The Grand Palace, The Emerald Buddha, and The Reclining Buddha, we needed up on a scam boat tour! It was okay though, as we took it in stride and that was day 1.
Here are a few pictures, the rest of the pictures and full story will come in a few days! :-)
On the boat.
At the top of Wat Arun temple.
Bill's mini scotch!
Day 2: a bike tour of Bangkok. We thought this was going to be more of a city sights tour, oh no, it was 25 kilometers through the slums, through the jungle and through alley ways - really tight alley ways! The tour company Recreational Biking Bangkok has our pictures on their Facebook page, check them out if you can't wait for me to post ours! Hehe But I promise I'll add many, many more pictures of this later when we get back to China. I wish I had a helmet camera for this excursion as it was so surreal. Really made me thankful for what I have!
Our tour guide Robin and Bill at our first break stop before taking a boat across the river! We were SOAKED in sweat at this point... Biking in 80 degrees and 80% humidity is questionable! At least it was overcast!
This is a picture of all the lanes/alleys we road through for about 3 of the 6 hours:
A rickshaw ride to the local floating market:
Dogs were ALL over the streets, alleys, everywhere:
This was a coconut filled pancake thingy. Not entirely sure, we ate it, it was tasty!
These were fried wontons with corn, we think pork and some other things. We dipped them in sweet curry sauce! Not bad.
We also sat at a restaurant in the market and I had a green curry, Bill had a noodle soup. Both very good!
We tried real coconut milk, they served it to us in a cup, at th market but in the touristy areas of town they give it to you in the coconut, it was pretty good in the cup too!
It was a long day of biking in the heat so we enjoyed a delious Thai meal that evening and crashed as we left early for our flight to Cambodia today!
So far we are relaxing in our hotel and will head to dinner with our tuc tuc driver in a bit!
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