Bangkok Travel Blogs - Page 5

Last night I went and got tattoo #3.  For me the compass rose symbolizes "traveler."  I've thought about this one a long time and have been wanting to get it along the way somewhere  - so why not Bangkok.  And yes, it hurt! 

As we had opted for in staying the shopping area of  Bangkok we felt we should do it justice and so spent the last 2 days looking round the vast air conditioned shopping centres.  The MBK shopping centre was truly remarkable.  It was a bit like a posh indoor market, wi…

After we left Jomtien we had to return Benny's daughter to where she lives full time.  It is sad enough for me that Voon and Benny live apart but then to see how she has to live makes it sadder.  I am lucky I live in a rich country in a beautiful city and have a good job and make decent m…

Bangkok: big, noisy, polluted, sweaty, touristy pain in the arse. I have a love-hate relationship with the place that I don't think is unusual. As the train pulled into Hualumphong Station it was love. I hadn't felt so excited to arrive anywhere since I first landed in Asia. Left my backpack in lef…

Today at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, we left the hotel for the trip to Chiang Mai. A small problem with this time of day, it's rush hour and the skytrain and subway are packed. A other problem is, if you're travelling by subway, you have to show your bags to a security guy at the entrance. Ofcource…

I have an afternoon flight leaving Bangkok at 4:55 PM so I still have some time to explore a diferent part of Bangkok.  Last night the street traffic was pretty heavy out on Nana Nua below my hotel room.  I was on the 7th floor (the top floor) of my hotel (The Grand Inn) and y…

Sitting in Bangkok (BKK - Suvanbhumi) Airport ariting this entry awaiting my connecting flight to Hong Kong.  It's a 13-hour layover - too short to go anywhere (even to the airport hotel at $150 US/night) but too long in the grand scheme of things.  I haven't updated my journal for the pa…

Most people view travel as an escape from life’s troubles.  But what travel becomes your life?  I did not engineer this nomadic experience, rather it simply evolved from a series of my choices.  As it evolved, so did I, and now I think of travel differently.  Perspectives ch…

I remember I had so much trouble last August attending the Bangkok Meet Up from a rough airplane trip to torrential rain! I was hoping everything would go easily and smoothly for the Bangkok NYE Meet Up, but it didn’t happen. I think I am destined for “interesting experiences”!  Haha! &…

So i got into Bangkok last night aronud 10pm.. Met two other people who were also travelling alone on the plane from Beijing and we hung out on the flight to BKK.  We ended up sharing a cab and went over to the notorious Khao San Rd.  =)  It was about 11pm when we got there, and…

I figured that there is only so much shopping a girl needs to do, so today I played tourist and caught the ferry to Wat Pho - this is where the giant golden  reclining Buddha was housed.  I'd heard a lot about it, but had never made my way to visit it.  So I made my way over to the f…

I went into Bangkok and found a cheap place to stay close to Khao San road. I went out drinking and met a swedish guy, a veeery original and strange guy. He was in his early fourtiees, wearing a leather west; a bikers west , and his body was covered in tattoes... I got a little one of my own a…

Certainly the most extravagant structures I have seen in my life, these wats are beautiful temples, built with so much attention to detail and carrying so much relevance in Thai culture and history. These wats are the three temples most recommended as must-sees in Bangkok. But also because of that,…

It was just a mere two hours to Poi Pet and the Thailand border crossing, but getting across the border was another matter.  It was almost farcically slow and seemed to involve a lot of queuing to get into a queue.  Once across the border though, I was quickly into a minivan bound for…

It is time to go back to work so I had to say good bye to Bangkok and heading back to work in Sri Lanka.   Because of I went out late last night I did not pack and I have to do last minute packing in the morning. Ok, passport and ticket; cover the basic things to get into the plane. That is…