Dear Bangkok, although it was just three night stand with you , yet I fell in love with you. Until I am back to you…
Day 0 : Sinagapore to Bangkok
The best fridays are the ones when you know you are flying of to a another country. Despite the usual immense workload, we all managed to get through the last weekday, and with FTW in bold , the backpackers at Changi. It was 2200 flight, I was looking for distraction, it was still too early to take “India Unbound” out. Changi never fails me, the new distraction was – a symphony of tropical raindrops.
http://m.changiairport.com/terminal1/
Well after long 3 hrs Bangkok greeted us. We hovered above the city for like 20 minutes, and man it looked amazing from ‘such great heights‘. It looked like a metropolitan anatomy laid bare. There were veins glowing with yellow and white lights, with intermittent patches of darkness. Tourist-anatomist in me was delighted to know that he would be trudging these arterial roads and street soon.
Day 1
One simply does not skip the breakfast buffet at any tourist trip. It was sumptuous, aligning with the old saying ‘…eat like a king’.
Being a group of seven, we hired the big mercedes mini van, and launched our journey to outskirts of Bangkok. To – Damnoen Saduak floating market. Riding around the bit dirty canals in a boat, with hot humid weather did not deter our excitement. The hustle and bustle, the traffic, the shop owners haggling for their goods, it was a modern art of canvas with rainbow of colors.
While other were in tourist/photographer mode, seeing the Bangkok cuisine unfolding in front of my pallet , I inadvertently went into foodie mode. (and still managed sans bangkok-belly 😉
Anticlockwise, Fruit seller,Sticky rice with mango,sweet coconut,Psidium guajava, best Guava I ever had,Making of som-tam,Som tam (green papaya salad).
And since I lost appetite for words so let the pics do the writing. 🙂
At tiger temple
View from Bridge over river Kwai
Day 2 :
Royal Palace, Bangkok
I continued the rendezvous with Bangkok’s street food. It was a utter delight to both eyes and taste buds.
Here chicken pad thai (thai noodles), various fruit juices , bbq banana and cha-yen (thai iced tea)
And last but not the least, , leaving Thailand sans thai massage would have been crie. consequently a bone crushing ‘wat-pho’ massage.
