During my trip around Asia I could visit
Bangkok, the Thailand Capital. I spent five days in this interesting city.
I choose a Hotel near of a skytrain station because
I´ve heard that the traffic in Bangkok were bad, I think I did a good choice, because
these skytrains are cheap and a fast way to travel around the city. Another good
way of transportation is through boats in the rivers and canals that cross the
city, besides a good transportation is also a good travel experience.
The buildings in Bangkok have a peculiar architecture,
and a special place to see is the Grand Palace, where is the official residence
of the royal family of Thailand and some beautiful temples. This was the place
that I liked most in Bangkok, where is nice to see the details in the architecture.
In Bangkok you can see two different worlds, a
rich one with marvelous buildings and luxurious shopping’s centers, and another
world with social problems and poor people selling all kind of stuffs on the
streets.
I had a bad experience with a tuk-tuk (little
taxi cars), the driver promised to take me to touristic places for a cheap
price, but he only took me to clothes stores. I discussed with him and he let
me on a neighborhood far away from everything and I had to walk a lot and grab
a taxi to go back to the hotel. It made me so angry, but later I was laughing about
that. If you go to Thailand, you need to pay attention with these tuk-tuks,
sometimes they try to trick you.
Another thing that I didn´t like in Thailand is
that anything has price. If you want to buy something you need to negotiate. It´s
hard to buy something fast, it takes time, and makes me tired.
Despite everything, I liked to visit this Bangkok, it´s interesting
to see their culture and contrasts, they are very different from other
countries in Asia, they have their own culture. For the next time I would like
to see a Muay Thay boxing fight.
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| Grand Palace |
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| Tuk Tuk |
