Bangkok is a sprawling, bustling metropolis... probably. Fortunately, I've managed to avoid getting stressed out and even more confused than the heat is achieving already by limiting my horizons to Rattanakosin Island (รัตนโกสินทร์), where all the old, interesting stuff is.
Come on then, I haven't got all day.
Rama VIII road bridge, connecting my squat to Rattanakosin city. I feel like I'm in that Tom and Jerry episode where they fight inside a piano
Marble elephants at Sanam Luang (not seen any real ones yet)
Democracy Monument prepares for launch
Decapitated Buddha at Art Gallery Bangkok
Citta Sankhara's Cetasika City. Try saying that with a mouthful of phat thai.
(Art Gallery Bangkok)
(Art Gallery Bangkok)
Loha Prasat
Lethal spires and pleasant garlands at Loha Prasat
The pleasingly monochrome Ordination Hall. Featuring red
Buy your tat here! Just one of many ways Bangkok reminds me of Venice
Wat Saket
(The Golden Mount)
The only section with its own opening credits
It's like something from The Divine Comedy (Alighieri, not Hannon)
Bangkok from the Golden Mount
The Mount's power source. If you destroy this, it explodes
Creepy laughing kid with baguette.
Bread isn't that funny, surely? (Don't call me Shirley etc.)
Wat Suthat and the Giant Swing.
Or big, pointless red thing as it's now known, since they took the swing away (spoilsports)
Wat Phra Kaew
(Temple of the Emerald Buddha)
Temple of
the Emerald Buddha
Spot the lizard
Wat Pho
(Temple of the Reclining Buddha)
The gaping maw of Wat Pho (title of my next adventure film)
Thai temples look so much meaner than Taiwan's
But they're also so gaudy, they wouldn't look out of place in my nana's house
Look, it's me! In Thailand! What am I doing there?
(A: Getting burned)
Just lazy
Buddha's bhuddies
A political protest? In Bangkok?
At least now I know the Thai for 'down with this sort of thing'
