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February 3, 2006
Exploring Bangkok
Today, Jessica’s first real day in Bangkok, we did quite a bit of touring around the city. After getting my haircut in the morning and relaxing at the hotel pool, we set off to explore the Royal Palace and a temple next door.
The temple housed the famous reclining Buddha. It was probably 40 meters long and 10 meters high, much bigger than I expected. We all took plenty of pictures of it. After exploring the grounds a bit more we headed down the street to visit the Royal Palace.
Andy and I were stopped because we were wearing shorts. For that reason we had to rent pants for to tour the area. As you can imagine we were looking pretty good. There were lots of people on the grounds but the majority looked to be from Thailand. A temple that housed a green jade Buddha was especially full of people praying and paying their respects. After an hour or so we caught a boat back to Rambuttri.
Tonight, while the girls got a massage Andy and I explored Khao San for the first time and got some drinks. Quite a lively place. The girls eventually met us and we ended up having drinks on some stools set up on the street. When I asked the owner of the street-side bar how she was allowed to up chairs in the street where people could drink, she told me she had to bribe the cops every night. Seems like a theme around here.
Making our way back to the hotel we took some pictures of a Shell gas station turned into a restaurant. One patron took offence and Andy had to calm him down but we got some good photos none the less.
Tomorrow we plan on exploring some more of the city.
Posted by Peter Mork at February 3, 2006 1:11 AM
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