China was a great experience about the culture as well as the Nature. Nevertheless, I can’t lie that I was happy to leave it for another place. And I guess Bangkok – Thailand was a great choice to continue the travels. Arriving in this city felt like discovering a new planet. People are so friendly and easy going somehow the opposite of Chinese. And it seemed like that everybody could talk a little english. So much easier to travel since I don’t speak any Thai.
First mission was to get the Myanmar visa around the corner of the ‘Miles Map’ hostel. The application process is quite straight forward and easy to get through. Besides that you have to spent some time in the application queue and later on in the pick up line. I got my passport in the afternoon back with the required old-fashioned passport stamp in it. Mission accomplished:)
The image I had in my mind of Bangkok was the one from the movie ‘Hangover’. A huge loud and very busy city with ladyboys all around. It was not exactly like that. Bangkok its much better and actually not even that busy. At least not on week days.
Bangkok is famous for its nightlife as well as for the cultural heritage situated in the city. The best way to explore parts of the city is by taxi boat on the canals. From this perspective some of the most famous temples can be spotted. Its also quite interesting to see all the activities along the water. Houses with basketball fields on the roof, a guy diving with an old fashioned diving helmet or just the regular fishermen taking its nets back.
I didn’t really do any research about the city and therefore I was quite surprised to find all those big temples in the middle of the centre. The most famous one might be the ‘Grand palace’ which is a fairly big complex of temples, side buildings and gardens. Protected by some ancient statues …
… and awesome looking real guards. In old fashioned British uniforms with the funny hat on. Just looks so amazing:)
Bangkok is definitely worth seeing it and especially if you come from China. Feels so good to see smiling people, to taste different street food or just to feel free and not watched by a crowd. Looking forward to see more of Thailand and south east Asia the coming weeks. Next will be Laos with a stop over on the way 🙂