Ordinary Saturday: traffic a little smaller, but the public transport is very crowded. On the platforms of the Sky-train there is order and peace: everyone (even tourists, including us) politely stands in line and let the getting-outs first. As a precaution, appropriate arrows had been painted. Simple and effective.
A little over than an-hour- walk through the shopping malls made us cruelly tired, so we had to go for a beer and a small snack to "The Banana Leaf".
Now we can be guides to the expensive and slightly less expensive stores. For any volunteers.
One could argue what is more important: the beauty of architecture, or convenience of moving around a huge city, which Bangkok obviously is. Here won the convenience and the whole centre had been cut by two lines of concrete viaducts of the Sky-train. Which, together with platforms and descents onto the street level created a network that is not of shocking beauty, but shows that it is more difficult to build the underground, for which the Sky-train is a great support.
