I Heart Bangkok

Not really.  It's huge, it's skeevy, it's crowded, it's hot.  And then there's the people trying to scam you in any variety of ways.  We were kinda over Bangkok from the second we arrived.  Oh, and you do see quite a few old dude-young thai girl arrangements. 

But it's kinda worth seeing as well, because it's definitely a scene unlike any other we've seen.  The night on Khao San Road, the traveler/ex-pat zone, is ca-razy!  It was a little more than we could handle, but luckily our hotel had a TV channel that showed nothing but pirated American movies - we got lucky with an Angelina thriller, "Salt." 

Two great things about Bangkok are the cheap, delicious food and the shopping.  The street stalls like the one below are the way to go for amazing Tom yam soup and tasty curries.  As soon as you step foot in a restaurant the price goes way up and the quality even goes down a bit. 

This is Khao San Road where you can buy sweet T-shirts, clothes, shoes, sunnies (as our English friends call sunglasses), rip-off designer bags, the whole shebang.  You can probably buy ladyboys there too, but we didn't check into that. 

 

Here are some English blokes/mates (don't they have cooler words than us!) we met in Vietnam and reunited with in Bangkok for a few large Chang beers before our sleeper bus up north to the Laos border. 

One final note, we were about to buy an I Heart Bangkok tank top for our dear friend, Mike Spahr, but then we decided he'd never wear it, and that's an expensive joke on a budget.