Bangkok

Thursday, November 5 continued... So we arrived once again at the huge Bangkok Airport. Our taxi ride to our hotel was supposed to only be 45 minutes long but due to an accident on the highway, it ended up being 1 ½ hours. It seemed like we would never get to Bangkok! We did finally checked into our hotel (almost 12 hours since our journey had begun) – a very nice Le Meridien. Keith and I were both starving so after dumping our bags we went out on the street to grab some dinner. Bangkok was like Phuket only 10 times over. Markets and shopping stall were everywhere. Traffic everywhere. Girls were everywhere. Keith was offered to see any one of a number of ping pong shows. I can see why people only stay “one night in Bangkok.” We grabbed a quick cheap dinner of, what else, Thai food and wandered around one of the open markets. We were both spent from traveling all day so we called it a night.

Friday, November 6. We were up bring and early. We only had a few hours before our flight to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and we wanted to catch at least one of the major sights in Bangkok – the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew (the Temple of the Emerald Buddha). It's hard for words to accurately describe but it's a brilliant complex made up of a number of temples and buildings all encrusted in gold and mosaic tiles. It was quite a sight to see. Back to the hotel we went to check out and head to the airport.