It’s 6:00 a.m., the sun is up, and about 20 roosters are
crowing outside our teak style Thai guesthouse window. No rest for the weary.
We got in at 2:00 a.m. after three days of travel via Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai.
A nice pre-tour of Asia. A few hours’ rest on a comfy bed and we’re ready to
go. Though we spent four days total in Bangkok, we’ll treat it as one in this
entry. It fits, really, with the bustling madness that is Bangkok that we’ve
already come to love.
We step out our gate. About twenty mopeds whiz by, weaving
through trucks, tuk tuks, and cars.
They see the camera hanging off Zak’s shoulder and offer up rides, but we are
ready to walk. Breakfast time, stomachs are grumbling. Soon we will brave street food, but for the
first couple of days we take it easy. We find a coffee shop whose owner, Pae,
sources her beans from north in Chaing Mai and roasts them herself. What a
find! On to explorations, starting with Wat
Pho, “wat” meaning temple. They are everywhere here, many hundreds of years
old and all with ornate decorations, steeped roofs, and orange-robed monks.
Trekking from one wat to another in Bangkok is a sweaty, grime inducing venture
so we hop on a bus. We are taken through a labyrinth of smells. Curries,
flowers, sewage, fried garlic, Chinese herbs. Time to eat, Pad Thai, a hotpot
of pork in medicinal sauce, fresh grated papaya salad so hot our eyes water.
The sweat cools us down. Wat Arun,
the Temple of the Dawn, rises above the water as we go by river taxi and head
closer to home. Massage time. Two hours for 200 baht - $6? We can handle that!
Back at the guesthouse we shower and rub balm on our blistered feet. Shouldn’t
have bought those $2 shoes at the market, they were just so cute. Night falls
quickly here, we don’t even need dinner tonight, we just crash into bed and
dream of tomorrow’s adventures. ~Ashley
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| Wat Pho |
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| Wat Pho |
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