One Night in Bangkok

Yay! We are finally posting highlights from our Thailand trip! We visited three different parts of Thailand, the first of which was Bangkok. We arrived in Bangkok at about 9 a.m. on Monday, 18.Dec.2006, and stayed there for one night (just like the song).

We had excellent Thai food (of course!) for dinner, and some super-friendly Thai people took this photo for us after dinner.


After dinner, we saw this street cart full of fried bugs - we were not at all sad that we were too full to try any.



We were amazed at the amount of traffic in Bangkok - and the number of scooters!






















On Tuesday (19.Dec.2006), we went shopping and had Thai food for lunch at a mall with a really neat food court - the chickens hanging in the window with their heads still on were a bit off-putting for me, though.



We were impressed with the green grass, green trees, flowers, and general beauty of the public spaces in Bangkok. Even though the city is big and bustling, we felt like it was always peaceful because of the vegetation and beautiful structures.


On Tuesday evening, we rode our first tuk-tuk (motorcycle-taxi) to the train station to catch the night train to Chiang Mai. We took the sleeper train, and got very little sleep.