The first stop on my winter break was the capital of Thailand, Bangkok. It is a massive city, and massively spread out. The first night I was in too late to see anything, but set out early the next day to see the sights. Unfortunately I left it too long to remember all the details, but the first two days I saw many different temples, wandered through some market streets, ate delicious street food, and cruised down the dirty, dirty river in a long boat. The first couple days were fairly lazy, simply because it was an adjustment to the muggy heat of Thailand, from the frigid cold of a China winter.
A water monitor hanging out in a city park.
Reeling in a big one!
One of the temples visited
Admiring the murals
I was travelling with a friend from home, and on the third day we met up with Tup, a good friend from university. He lives in Bangkok and was excited to take us on a fishing adventure. We spent the day out on the dock catching 9 giant catfish! There were huge and disgusting and awesome. I had no idea that they were that much work to catch! I was in pain after the first couple of fish. I might need to start doing some arm workouts to improve my fishing. I had to yell to Tup for help reeling some in. Fishing is hard!
The gold is hard to look at in the sun!
A touch of Kamloops in Thailand :)
The next day was spent at the Golden Palace. This was the coolest site to visit in the city, and was a great place to spend a few hours meandering around. The most interesting part was the mural that went around the entire compound. It was a great day of meandering around the city, and then back for a delicious sea food dinner with Tup's family.
Riverside temples
Bangkok was interesting to see, and a little bit cleaner than China. For the most part, it was actually quite cheap and accomodation was easy to find. After figuring out the sky train system it became much easier to get around. The tuk-tuk's are still the most fun option for travel within the city! I don't think that it is a place I would go back to, as the time I enjoyed the most was out on the water fishing (which was certainly not in the city).
One of the smaller fish!
Although I am not giving a super thorough picture of Bangkok, it was a great start to the trip. However, after living in China for the past six months, I was not interested in spending too much time in an overcrowded city. I wanted a break from the hustle, and so the next stop on the trip was the very relaxed (and cheap!) Chiang Mai.
In my respectable temple garb.
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