Thailand - Bangkok

So after our relaxing time on the island we still had 5 days left in Thailand. We decided not to go anywhere else, but stay in Bangkok. The weather was going to be pretty wet everywhere in Thailand.

We did a bit more sightseeing around, we took the public boat down the river to Chinatown, and walked around for a while. We stopped to look at the biggest golden Buddha sculpture in the world (it weighs over 5 tonnes). We also treated ourselves to an Indian meal to make up for not going to the country itself.

5.5 tonne solid gold budda, assorted crabs in Chinatown.

We did lots of shopping for presents, both in the markets around where we were staying, and at the Chuta Chuk market where we had been on our last visit. Its the huge market with thousands of stalls selling anything you can imagine. There are lots of really cool clothes, and we managed to find some awesome ceramics for ourselves. the weather was incredibly hot, (it has been the whole time in Bangkok) after about 4-5 hours we were exhausted, and drenched with sweat, so happy to hop back into the air-con skytrain home. Also we bought some more jeans from one of the big shopping malls.

We moved over to the other side of Bangkok for a couple of nights to be closer to the public transport. We also got to stay in a nicer hotel. It was cool to stay in another part of Bangkok, but everything was much more expensive.

During our time in Bangkok we have been filling up on all the yummy foods that we are going to miss when we leave asia. Lots of fruits, noodles, shakes, omelet over rice, and mango sticky rice.

Awsome Thai cusine.

Tuktuk rides, and Bangkok street stalls.

This is the last international post of our blog. Its back to New Zealand now, but we still have nearly 1 month before we plan to start work. Hopefully the shock of going back to the real world wont kill us.