March 21-24

We have had a very busy few days in Bangkok. There is so much to see, and we also had quite a list of to-dos before we could get out of here. We have successfully:

  • Taken a taxi to get our Cambodia and Laos visas (3 hours, mostly due to traffic as they are next to each other)
  • Taken boat taxis and the sky train to Wat Pho for a morning of beauty, then a bike shop, a massive shopping center, and a grocery. We could not get a taxi to take us back to our guest house area (the traffic is nuts and it was quite a ways) we had to walk, sky train, and boat taxi ourselves back.
  • Enjoyed a Thai massage.
  • Taken another boat taxi to the Grand Palace (the king’s sometimes residence and site of the royal Wat and a museum) and walked through open markets and sampled street food.
  • Enjoyed a Thai foot massage.
  • Figured out our route and means of travel to Cambodia (by train).
  • Bought plane tickets to fly home from BKK in May.
  • Arranged details for our dive trip in Koh Tao.
  • Updated pictures, written entries, and now posted those entries.
  • Done lots of research on the internet.
  • Gone through our stuff and cut it down quite a bit. We will store a box at our hotel until we come back to fly home. My load is much lighter now, as is Dave’s!
  • We’ve also eaten some really great food, from breakfast to lunch and dinner and fruit shakes in between. This place has no shortage of great food.

We leave tomorrow morning by train to the Cambodia border. We’ll probably cross over and stay in the dreaded Poipet so we can get a very early start to our ride the next day.

Bangkok!

Wat Pho

Wat Pho

Wat Phra Kaeo

Wat Phra Kaeo