Bangkok...

We ended up spending 5 days in Bangkok with the last one spent researching the route ahead. Bangkok is pretty crazy but actually far more structured and western than I had imagined. We stayed in the old town area where the metro or sky trains haven’t quite reached out to yet, so to get anywhere we always had to get a tuk-tuk or taxi first, which we then spent at least 30 minutes stuck in traffic somewhere as the roads are so atrociously rammed with far too many vehicles. Most of our outgoings that week were spent on transport as the city is so big. It’s very different to the previous cities I have visited on this trip which were all walk able.

Here are the sights we saw in pictures:

Grand Palace

Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaeo

Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaeo

Scary weird statue at the Bangkok Cultural Arts Centre

Awesome sketches at the Bangkok Cultural Arts Centre

More strange stuff at the Bangkok Cultural Arts Centre

Jim Thompson's House - pioneer of Thai silk

Eating in the road in crazy Chinatown

Huge reclining Buddha at Wat Pho

More gold at Wat Pho

Relaxing on the red and gold beds in the best Indian restaurant in Bangkok with a Shisha!

One rather blog-worthy story that happened to me in Bangkok involves a cockroach. I am usually OK with bugs and spiders, but I hate cockroaches. I can just about dodge them and skip round them in the street without too loud a whimper. On our last night in Bangkok after packing up and everything was ready to go, I lay on the bed in our hotel room with my arms spread out, a little tired. All of a sudden I saw something move at the speed of light in the corner of my eye and before I could move, this thumb-sized cockroach ran across the bed, up onto my arm and into the scrunched up bed sheets. To say I screamed was an understatement. Holy crap, I have never moved so fast in my life. Urgh! It crawled on my Arrrrrrrmmmmmm!!!!!! I shiver just thinking about it.