Bangkok: The City of Angels – Part 2
BANGKOK
After spending 3 nights in Ko Samet, we went back to Bangkok around dinner time. We realized that we have spent a lot of our time traveling, riding boats, buses, taxis and trains, and we were really tired so we just decided to chill and relax at the hotel.
We only have a whole day to explore the city, so we woke up early the next morning and once we stepped out into the “City of Angels’, my senses were assaulted with a gamut of exciting colours, textures, flavours and smells unique to Thailand and its gracious people.
We visited some of Thailand’s famous landmarks and we took our time to take in all the grandeur and their madness for details evident in their massive structures.
We spend around six hours in trying to visit all these landmarks, which we think will never be enough. You would really need a few days to [...]
Bangkok: The City of Angels – Part 1
Aaron and I are used to navigating mountain trails back home in the Philippines. We have been active mountaineers for the last five years before I left home to work abroad. Last March, we decided to travel and navigate a city where we haven’t been before. We decided to visit the ‘City of Angels’.
We want to think that we belong to the “backpacker” kind of people and view this trip as our own little piece of adventure. I bought the book, “Bangkok City Guide” from Lonely Planet’s series of Travel Guide Books and created our own itinerary. So on the 13th of May, after some rigorous planning, Aaron slung his backpack on and flew all the way from the Philippines to Singapore to meet me. We boarded the Jetstar plane bound for Bangkok around 7:30 pm and arrived at the Suvarnabumi Airport after two and a half hours.
Navigating through the [...]
