Bangkok - The big city life

I thought the flight to Bangkok is going forever. The last 4 hours I tossed and turned my ass because I couldn’t stretch my legs. When the plane touched the ground, I threw my arms into the air and did my first steps on Thai lands towards the checkout. The officer put some stamps into my travel journal that allow me to stay 30 days in Thailand. At the exit I already could see the big smile from Ines who I didn’t see for 6 months. It’s a good feeling to see somebody familiar after a long time. After a Thai dinner at Subways we took a taxi to the hotel where I realised the first time how hot it is. I just sat on the bed and I sweated like hell from doing nothing. “Damn is it hot” was one of the phrases that Ines had to hear a few days long. It wasn’t a surprise after coming from New Zealand with its 14 degrees climate to Thailand’s humid 35 degrees.  
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Our first Coconut 
Khao San Road
Natural dryer
The Kho San Road with its bars, hostels, guesthouses, food stalls, clothes stalls, junk stalls, restaurants and discos is one of the famous backpacker roads in Bangkok. We wandered for a short time along the road and got offers like a Tuk-Tuk-tour around Bangkok, suits from Armani, visions from our further, razors and accommodations. We took the last offer and check into a guesthouse a few minutes later which costs us about 360 Bhat (9-10 Euros). These rooms contain mostly a king sized bed, a shower, a toilet and a fan which is very important otherwise it is impossible to sleep.
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Negotiation with Thais 
Crazy cable clutter
Wat Pho
Bangkok is a city of contrasts and chaos which works out pretty well. Next to luxury hotels are hovels, the cable clutter here in town will throw every electronic specialist hands up in despair and the only rule in traffic is, there are no rules. Not only they have left-hand-traffic in Thailand but also the motorcycles which are the favourite vehicle for the Thais using every single gap. It doesn’t matter if it is a dead end road or the walkway. I don’t want to tell you about helmets or number of persons on these bikes. The most that I counted were 2 ladies and 3 kids. I wondered all the time why most Asian people are wearing a mouth protection. Now I know why. The smog from the traffic is very high. Nothing with fresh air from the backcountry.
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Amazing
Unique buildings
High towers from Wat Pho
The biggest contrast was the Buddhist temple Wat Pho am Fluss Chao Phraya which was mind-blowing with its high towers, golden figures, awesome handmade stuff and unique buildings. Now I’m definitely a tourists because and took one shot after another. The longer we walked around the shorter got the distance between knee and chin. We were not well dressed and respected the rules in the temple. We missed the inside of these temples but the outside was already overwhelming.
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Boot taxi
Happy...
...because of leaving Bangkok
We spend only 2 days in this huge city and had already enough from it. We booked a boot and bus tour to Koh Samui in order to experience the island life.
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  1. hallo ihr zwei...wunderschön..natur,dreck und kabelgewirr...trotzdem wünderschön...freue mich schon auf die nächsten bilder und erlebnisse..kussssss mom und petra

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