Bangkok

The adventure has well and truely begun. Arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday morning, and managed our way, thai style, to Khao San Th. My first impressions of Bangkok didn't really change as the time passed. It is another large buzzing capital city, very smoggy and lots of traffic.


On our second morning, we decided to get a Tuk tuk. A kind of thai taxi - for an hour the guy promised to take us to alot of the big temples, the sleeping buddha, the standing buddha and the travel agency, and all for only 5 baht (about 10cent). He did most of what he said took us to lots of temples, the travel agency, A TAILOR, A JEWELLER, .. Apparently for each customer they bring to these shops they get commission. Finally he left us stranded in the middle of nowhere... where we were picked up by another tuk tuk.. who drove us around to more shops... before finally bringing us home - very tired and a little annoyed. However the adventure cost us nothing and we saw a large chunk of Bangkok.... at that moment, we decided we would head to north, to Chiang Mai and booked our 12 hour over night bus journey for an expensive 5 euros....