Busy Street Bangkok
Khao San Rd.
Liz and Brienne Getting interviewed at the Grand Palace by some students.This past weekend we grabbed a 4pm bus for Bangkok and set our modern dial ahead 20 years. The trip was long as always and we arrived around 9:30 to eat a meal with our friends Felix and Brienne at the spicy Asian restaurant, a favorite on Rambuttri St. We then went hotel hunting which proved to be quite hard, because we found that hotels raise their prices the later you arrive. We finally settled into the 10$ a night gem that is the New Siam. The beds were soft, and the rooms were clean, we had a problem with a fan that was wired backwards, so we spent the first night thinking that the high setting was the low setting. We went out for a few drinks on Khao san Rd. and settled in for the night. Saturday we headed towards the grand palace, or Wat Pragow, thinking we could swing a waived entry fee with our official Thai work permits. We were wrong of course so we postponed the palace tour to a later date. Undiscouraged we headed to Dusit Zoo, seeing everything from elephants to snakes to giraffes. We then grabbed a cab for the Siam Paragon, Bangkok's mega mall/ movie theater. The paragon has every kind of western food you can imagine, from Mexican to steakhouses. We grabbed a plate of nachos, which was our first taste of cheese since Christmas, and I topped it off with a real burger, my first since August. We reserved tickets for the 9pm showing of Avatar IMAX 3d and walked around this mega mall, which has an entire floor devoted to cars, including Ferrari, Porsche Lotus, and Lamborghini. After the movie we headed back to Khao San and to bed. Sunday was spent at the Chatachak Market, which covers 35 acres in Bangkok, we walked around and purchased a few 2$ t-shirts, at 4pm we grabbed the bus back to Chaiyaphum.
