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A curry stand in Bangkok's Chinatown. Not for the spice-averse.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
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From an escalator in Bangkok's Chinatown, you can enter the world of Bangkok's Little India, where paan and samosas are on offer and not a Thai curry is to be found.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Bangkok blends tradition - overwhelming reverence of the King and a strong devotion to Buddhist culture - and the modernity of new Asia with glass and steel and high-tech shopping centers.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Take a canal taxi and catch a clash of competing architectural styles.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Hankering for crispy cricket? Look no further than Bangkok where heaps of fried critters are on offer.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Eggs, eggs, everywhere eggs. Quail eggs, too, in Bangkok.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
At 150 ft long and 15 feet high, the gold plated reclining Buddhat at Wat Pho amazes with its size and glistening gold surface. Wat Pho is Bangkok's largest and oldest temple complex, dating back to the 16th century. Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
A Bangkok ticket controller takes a break in between canal taxi rides. As the boat gets moving, his balancing act consists of hanging off the side, collecting money from the latest passengers who hop on board, and ducking frequently for low bridges...all seemingly without looking.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Bangkok traffic is infamous, intractable, and impassable - we've spent 40 minutes just trying to get across a major intersection. The most pleasant way to navigate Bangkok is by boat - inexpensive canal taxis will take you downtown and river boats to temples and neighborhoods along the Caho Phraya. In addition to getting you where you need, they also provide a glimpse of life on the water.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
People light candles and incense, pray and make offerings of flowers and fruit at a Buddhist shrine outside the Central World shopping complex in downtown Bangkok. This seemed like an odd place to pray for enlightenment.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Panthip Plaza has 4 floors full of everything high-tech from hardware to pirated software and DVDs. We've made this a stop on most of our trips through Bangkok, picking up the latest in cheap memory cards and digital photo paraphernalia.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Lumpini park in downtown Bangkok provides a welcome respite from the high rise buildings and traffic that surround it. Another reason to visit - the large monitor lizards that make the lake in the park their own. They aren't dangerous and provide endless entertainment to lizard-loving tourists.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Street food dining in Bangkok is superb - fresh, cooked to order and incredibly cheap. This woman lines up her noodles in anticipation of throngs of Pad Thai lovers, tourists and locals alike. In the Banglamphu area of Bangkok, a plate of Pad Thai will run you about 25 Baht (or $0.60). Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
This woman, like so many on the streets of Bangkok, stares out from behind a sea of plastic snack bags. Snacks run from the undeniable to the unidentifiable.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
This actor readies himself for a street celebration in the Banglamphu market area of Bangkok. Local families gathered in the blocked off area to watch the festivities (and slowly go deaf from the volume of music and banter). Without any Thai skills, we could still roughly follow the storyline involving love, royalty and a few peasants. Some things are universal.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
If peace and silence isn't enough, you can ring the bells on your way up to the top of Golden Mount Temple.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Buddhist monks line up to get their photo taken in front of the large, golden stupa at the top of Golden Mount Temple.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
We visited this temple on a Buddhist holiday, so it was full of families praying and making offerings of flowers, incense and money. Once purchased, flowers are not kept, but rather rented so they can be recycled for the next customer making an offering. The importance lies in the offering, not the possession. Quintessentially Buddhist.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
Lotus flowers, candles and incense make frequent appearances in temples throughout Southeast Asia.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
A Buddhist monk appears to reflect on the skyline of Bangkok from Golden Mount Temple. Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
