Green Curry
[/caption]To catch our flight back home we had to spend one more night in Bangkok, we looked forward to it as we knew the shopping was good, we stayed in the same hotel so we would not waste time finding our bearings. Bangkok though had a different plan for us, it was busy, dirty, smelly. Even more so now than the first trip there as we had been in such fresh clean places. We shopped and then got the worse of Bangkok as we tried to move around the city for dinner, stuck in traffic on the back of a Tuk Tuk. Your eyes sting, throat feels acidic and overall you just feel like getting out of there.
We did find the night markets in Bangkok, they were good and close to there is a nice block of restaurants. We ordered our last Thai meal – Green Curry and Pappaya salad (our favourites)
Overall though we both agreed that Bangkok itself is a shit hole. Good for shopping or a hub to travel to other interesting places outside of the city.
It wasn’t nice to finish on this note, especially after the high of Koh Phangan & Koh Samui – but then again it made us feel like coming home so i guess it assisted the transition. Bangkok is a city in trouble i feel, it lacks a good town planner and local government. It seems to have reached a point of no return.
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Agreed David… Bangkok is one unrelentingly obnoxious city. My favourite aspect of it is definitely from the window of a plane as I’m leaving.
While you were puttering around on the Tuk Tuk, did you happen to pass by the Nikon factory?
True, Bangkok also not a place for me.
It’s sleazy, perhaps something for old, dirty-minded guys drinking
in bars owned by foreigners or chasing the next HIV infected woman.
There are better places, without all that. Happy Days, Axel
Hi , Do you know that Bangkok has A/C cabs , A/C overhead trams and a subway which I have not yet used which would have air conditioning ?
From a Nikon user
Hi, we used them too, very nice. They have their own tragic story as well, big plans that went amiss, undeveloped subway roots, half built train line. Didn’t Bangkok strike you as slightly weird? Or i should say, its not what a westerner from a “developed” country is used to seeing. Don’t get me wrong, i like culture shock, i search for it, but Bangkok was just weird and dirty. The Tuk Tuk experience was the best way to describe that.