Bangkok at first glance Part 3

Wat Pho

Our trip took place end of march 2016. March, april is the hot season in Thailand. And yeah it was very f*** hot! Having a cold, walking around in 38 Celsius and round 85% humidity is not that cool. But it was worth. The next day we made it to the Palace. We explored it and took so many pictures. After we needed a break and sat next to the river in the shade. There was this old man next to us who explaned that we just visited a temple (Wat Pho) and the Grand Palace would be next to it. We should go the day after tomorrow. Because he was off the next day. It turned out that he was working at the Palace. What a coincidence!

We never went to see the temple it was just to hot to wear long trousers...
In exchange we visited some more temples such as the Golden Mount (Wat Saket) where you have a nice view over the city and the weekend market (Chatuchak Market). This must be the biggest market of Thailand. More than 12'000 stands sell everything. We bought t-shirts, hats, scarfs, fruits, drinks and much more and it was so cheap! Go and make your deal...

Bangkoks China Town was a good change. It was so hard to find because my app did not work properly. So we took a taxi. This China Town is not much different than any other China Town in the World. I just like to see different parts of the city.

my favourite restaurant 

Two places are there still that I wan two share with you. Zanzibar at Sukhumvit 11 is a very nice place to go for a drink or a good glass of wine. But beware it is not a very cheap place. But they have good live music. The second advise is in Skhumvit Soi 2 near the Icon Hotel. It is a restaurant thai style. Street food at its best. They cook on the road freshly made and very delicious. 3 Main dishes and 2 beers for less than 8 CHF/EUR. We ate like tree times here. You got hungry? No problem they have a phone just give a call. They do deliveries :-)

Bangkok at first glance Part 2

Not very far from the Grand Palace a bit up north there is e very popular street called Khao San road. Ever afternoon this 200 meter street starts to get very crowded with tourist and locals. Shopping, drinking, eating and just having fun is the goal of this street. After a good dinner and a couple of beers we walked down the road with some people we just met at the restaurant. Somebody sold his local products. My friends know that I love local products and if it is local food it is even better. So a tried some scorpions, spider and grub. But no, I am not going to tell you how they taste. Try them out. For dessert we had a small bite of durian. That one I really can recomend. It is so disgusting that you should not miss it. :-)
Drunk as we were we organised a tuk-tuk to get to Sukhumvit. I can tell you this crazy ride was better than any rollercoaster I have ever tried out. This guy was driving like hell! Oh god, I had so much fun,
My friend was so shocked that we had to go for a drink. Ok, no problem for me. Sukhumvit is huge. We headed for a nice place for drinking. All of a sudden a nice girl invited us to her bar. We entered our first strip club in Thailand...

From my point of view there is a big difference between Khao San and Sukhumvit. Lots of young people go there for drinking, party and eat. In Sukhumvit the people are older and there are much more male tourists in some roads than in Khao San if you know what I mean.

Bangkok at first glance Part 1

I am now working in the tourism business for quite a few years. During this time a sold so many flights and packages for Thailand but this country never attracted me that much to go for myself. When we decided to go for some holidays we chose Thailand but to be honest I was not very confident. But this was going to turn out the opposit. Well, I have to admit it is a great country for different reasons!

Late at night we arrived in Bangkok completely wasted from the journey. So we took a taxi instead of the Skytrain, which is certainly much cheaper than the taxi. We payed like 450 Bath to the hotel which was in Sukhumvit Soi 2. The receptionist at the Aspen Suites gave us a upgrade. So our large room got even larger. Very nice!
Back on the streets we explored the neigbourhood, had a good bite and went for a beer in a sportsbar. Yeah, sorry, i was very tired so I forgot all the names of these places.
Sukhumvit Road is the vibrant heart of the city of Bangkok. Or on of many hearts. Huge shopping malls, tousands of bars, many restaurant, massage salons, tailors and hotels and so on... That attracts lots of tourists, so it did us ;-)

I got a bad cold on the first morning but as I was in Bangkok now I had to get up an explore the city. The first thing we did was going to this tailor to get some shirts. After this exciting experience we headed to the king palace. On the way one of these famous tuk-tuks picked us up and brought us to the palace. On the road he was talking and offering to bring us to a jetty. From there we should take a boat to a famous tempel called Wat Arun and to the old town were the people live in houses on stilts. We made a good price (I think we paid 300 Bath for the two of us and for one hour) and took place in the boat.

The Chao Phraya River divides the city in two parts. The river is not worth to see, brown water and very busy with boats. But you are not looking at the water during this trip. The skyscrapers, bridges and temples catch your eyes. When I sat in this boat I became an idea of Bangkoks dimensions. It is huge and very diverse. A brandnew skyscraper with blue glass all over next to historic tempel. It feels strange but they go along very well. By the way Bangkok has a garbage collection on the water. How cool is that.!