Five Minutes of Joy in Bangkok
My flight to Bangkok was excellent, I got to see the Himalayas and I even recognized Mount Everest. When I left Kathmandu, the weather was cloudy, but the mountains managed to poke their heads out. I flew on Thai Air, what a great airline, even as a passenger in economy. The flight crew treated me like I was in first-class.
Bangkok is so much bigger than I thought. The temperature was 90 degrees, which is quite a change from Nepal and Tibet, plus not as hot as India, but close. I shared a taxi ride with a couple of guys from Israel. I met them at baggage claim and they were headed to the same place as me, Khao San Road. If you’ve seen the movie ‘The Beach’, Khao San is mentioned as the center of the backpackers world. But, the road is teeming with hotels too, some of the best hotels in Bangkok Thailand as a matter of fact. The road is also full of food stalls, clubs, bars, neon lights and tons and tons of people. It’s quite a scene. Both sides of the road are filled with distractions and wonderful delights for the traveller and visitors alike. What’s amazing is what they can fit into a small stretch of street, it only takes five minutes to traverse from one end to the other, that’s if you don’t stop and eat, drink and shop.
My hotel was next to a dance club, so I didn’t know I’d be disturbed with the bass vibrations rattling my walls and windows all the way into the wee hours of the morning. Fortunately, I was so tired that I slept through most of it. While I decide which beach to hit and when to head on out to Malaysia and then onto Singapore, I’ll do a 3 day trip into the jungle only a few hour away from Bangkok. But now, it’s time to eat my way to a beach.
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