Bangkok in a break between Cambodian groups

A regenerating walk around Bangkok brought back many memories from several previous stays (all described on this blog). Here are some snapshots, not necessarily symbolic for the city. Bangkok is still a big building site and it's hard to believe that they can still build more high-rise buildings h...

And yet Bngkok to wipe out ears

And two more days in Bangkok so that returning to our Polish reality is not too sudden ... My eye-glasses retrieved, the last drinks empty, no more cash - time to go  back home. With lots of regret, though! Thank you all following us on the blog and co-travelling with us through Cambodia. Isn’t ...

Bangkok means food, though!

 You can do a lot of things in Bangkok . During each stay in the city we discover new places to sightsee, to visit and  enjoy.. But there is one thing that is constant here: the Thai cuisine. No matter what you do the city you always end up savouring wonderful food in one of the  restaurant or simp...

At night things look almost the same in Bangkok...

As we know "almost the same" makes a lot of difference, though... Mourning or no mourning life must go on. Life does not tolerate any vacuum. So after more than a month of limitations in all entertainment, a ban on playing loud music and even a night street vending, it was  allowed to go back to th...

Bangkok in the days of mourning

As always, Bangkok is our base in Southeast Asia. Now we are getting acclimatized here before the trip to Cambodia. This is our eighth visit to the city. Once again, we find a situation different from the other ones. We survived here the great flood, several terrorist attacks, military presence on t...

Bangkok - Amphawa - the floating market

We do not give up and we use our time in Bangkok untill the last moment. .On the last day we go on a trip to Amphawa knowing that we will return to the hotel at the last moment just before departure to the airport. Amphawa is about 80 km  away from Bangkok. There is a floating market. It's kind of...

Bangkok - the night life

Last night in Bangkok. A part of our group (3 people) have flown away to Poland. Two still remain in a small indisposition - at the hotel. Nine of us went to peep night life in the cosmopolitan capital, and in particular (as requested by everybody in the group) in the area which is mostly (but not...

Bangkok - life of the metropolis

Today Hania and Olek created the entry: After the adventure on the canals of the river Chao Phraya, which lasted approx. 2 hours, when the monitor lizards almost ate us up ... we reached the restaurant River Vibe, where on the terrace ot the 6th floor there was waiting for us a real feast dining r...