Tuesday, October 24

Not gonna do a proper write up for Bangkok, just pictures with long descriptions...
In Thailand everybody loves their King. He was born on a Monday, so every Monday people wear yellow t-shirts... makes sense, right?! If they say so. Taken in the train station, but everywhere you go all you can see is yellow. Me and my friends joined in too by wearing our yellow!

One night myself and the three Israeli's were in a taxi, we went round a corner and got pulled over. Two policemen waving flashing sticks insisted we all got out the car so they could search us, I guess for drugs. I was a bit concerned about being searched by this guy seeing how gay he looks... tis fear soon became reality. Everything was going okay until he'd searched me and decided to finish off by slapping my ass. We decided to ignore it and joked with them a bit in Thia. Having found the whole situation quite funny we decided to get pictures with them. Straight after this picture was taken the policeman tried to kiss me at which point we jumped back in the taxi and said "drive!"

Me, Jacqualine and Camilla, my two Danish friends who I met in Nha Trang and stayed there with for a few weeks, then met up again in Bangkok. Taking a tuk-tuk ride home, has to be done in Thailand at least once. But I think this was the only time I did, partly because they always try and rip you off, partly because they drive like complete idiots. Our guy drove into the back of a taxi on our journey home!

"Drink don't drive" - Johnny Walker slogan. My friends stayed here for a few nights because the sign was so cool! That and it's the tallest building in Bangkok/Thailand?

A few nights we went to an area in Bangkok called the RCA. Definately not a backpacker place, all the backpackers hang out on one road (Khao San, near where I was staying). This was an area with really nice nightclubs, where all the rich Thai's go! Each night walking down the avenue you could see them all arriving in their really expensive cars. Here you can see two ferrari's next to each other, then a new BMW! To the left was a new mini cooper, then another ferrari. They're seriously rich. The club's were really cool too, the one we went to most had 4 rooms, North East South and West, mixture of music, live DJ's and live bands.

Lumphini Park. People come here everyday when they finish work and exercise. One person stands at the front to guide the routine, then a few hundred people copy to old school English songs at full volume! Hundred's of people go their too to jog, roller blade, cycle, or play keepy-ups with the little bamboo balls they have there. There's a nice lake too, shown here at sunset. There's catfish in it that you can feed and they go pretty crazy fighting for food, and apparently also turtles though I never saw any.

When the police in Asia aren't trying to sexually harass you they're confiscating anything they can find, bicycle's in this instance, then demanding money for their return. My friend had his motorbike taken in Vietnam for no reason and had to pay to get it back.

A Thai boxing match we went to see. Most things go, a favourite being the kick to the head. It's a pretty hardcore sport though they never seem to bleed?

Is it a bird, is it a plane...? No, it's Eminem!

Other things done in Bangkok: We went go-karting which was really fun! Karts up to 40kmph round a big indoor track. It was a bargain too, 6 pounds with a free game of bowling. You pay that much just for bowling at some places in England! Went bowling 2 or 3 other times too. Went to a couple of random clubs, as well as one with some Thai friends where ladyboys perform, singing as men and women in the same songs and doing backflips and breakdancing! Just about more amusing than disturbing. I went out on Khao San Road twice, but can't stand the ladyboys grabbing your arms, people trying to sell you things all the time, some drunk guy getting really in my face for no reason, a prostitute shouting at the girl I was with etc. Went to quite a few malls, they're big and have everything! Examples with: 21 cinema's, 4 McDonald's, a floor selling only mobile phones, an area selling Ferrari's, Porsche's and Lambo's and one with a rollercoaster on the top floor. Went to the area Patpong one night to see an interesting show... I won't say anymore, go and figure! Whilst there we also accidentally walked down a gay street but didn't realise, until we couldn't spot any girls and saw signs such as "XXX boys" and "Dirty boys" and then we ran away. That's about it!

1 Comments:

At Sat Oct 28, 01:57:00 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

loving the yellow train station photo! Woot! I HAD A HOUSE PARTY AND IT WAS THE SHIZZLE! I'll put some photos of it all on facebook, you haven't seen uni people in ages so this can be like some ker-razy reminder. Oh so very tired now and behind on all work, ever.

Have fun!

Sam

 

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