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This dog takes a nap at our favorite dessert spot. Mangoes are perfectly sweet and smooth while the sticky rice provides a savory counter-bite. Topped off with some coconut milk, it's a sublime mixture of sweet and salty. And, at the price of $0.55, how can you resist?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.
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This woman folds back the leaves of a lotus flower for offerings at the Buddhist altar.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.
Hankering for crispy cricket? Look no further than Bangkok where heaps of fried critters are on offer.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.
Strings of money offerings for sale at Wat Arun in Bangkok as part of the end of the year 9 Sacred Places Festival.
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Lumpini park is a large park in downtown Bangkok that provides a welcome respite from the high rise buildings and traffic that surround it. People arrive early to practice their tai chi and take in a little breakfast at the outdoor food court before starting their day.
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.
No hue is missed when a river boat gets a new coat of paint.
Wat Arun in Bangkok, Thailand.
These offering baskets can include anything from cans of condensed milk to soup packets to water. These baskets are bought as an offering for the monks in return for their blessing.
Eggs, eggs, everywhere eggs. Quail eggs, too, in Bangkok.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.
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Lotus flowers, candles and incense make frequent appearances in temples throughout Southeast Asia.© www.uncorneredmarket.com
A curry stand in Bangkok's Chinatown. Not for the spice-averse.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
This prized spooky poodle waits for his owner on top of a food stall table. © www.uncorneredmarket.com
Who knew there were so many qualities and varieties of dried shrimp?
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.
Take a canal taxi and catch a clash of competing architectural styles.Read Bangkok's 15-course street meal.
