BKK

Bangkok is a sweatbox full of wonder

and wander for the traveller.

When you arrive at the very new

airport the first thing that hits you is

the efficiency as you goto collect your bags,

then the heat. the heat, even at 7pm is very

obvious and hits you like a wave as you leave the airport!

The taxis are clean and on time,

the people are somewhat reserved although

in the capitals the best folk can be somewhat dog eat dog!

The thais seem to goto bed early as in bangkok the

city is much quieter than the other capitals I have been to,

but that didn't last.

The koh san road area of Bangkok is probably the most famous

place for the backpacker in south east asia.  This place has been

won out by the flash, flush westerner seeking the cheap and the

easy in life.  Strange that just a century ago it was rare to see another

westerner on the streets of bk.  other than the odd sailor who walked the

streets on leave good old Bkk was a more reserved buddhist capital. 

It has never been a democracy as the king rules it all, yet the folk here

worship the king and compared to many countries destroyed

by the american war it has boomed with its mad brand of

capitalism and monarchic rule.

Now bangkok is a bunch of neon and westernised speed.  the place is so fast

in so many ways that the land of yesteryear, represented quite commonly

around the city in the form of temples, seems like oasis after oasis away

from what has been brought by the 'developed' world.

Time to sweat and adapt, observe and see what will be.

more soon…….