One Night In Bangkok...

Having spent almost a week in rural Thailand, it was a little bit of a shock to come back into the city. And sure enough Bangkok is pretty much like any other city. We spent the day running around the city exploring the more tourist things to do.

We caught a subway to the downtown area and then a boat ride down the river to the Golden Palace and Jade Buddha.

Upon entry of the palace grounds we found out that you had to were "proper" dress to get into it. So i decided to try a new style here. We walked around the grounds of the palace for about 2 hours, taking in a visual feast of amazing architecture and more gold on buildings than i have ever seen. I found this next photo to be very entertaining. The guards in front of the palace were switching guards. And they go through about a 5 min process of turning the duties over from one guard to the other. Once the 2nd guard is in position, the previous one spends about 2 minutes primping and checking the new one for proper uniform placement and all. It was neat to catch this.

Yea. they pretty much carry huge automatic guns like it is no body's business.

After the palace, we traveled to the huge "ex-pat" community in Bangkok. This street alone had more European restaurants then probably all of China combined.