One night in Bangkok...

When we arrived in Bangkok we hired a cab to take us to Khao San road..the local backpacker ghetto..this place was overpriced and crowded with tourists...guess we could have expected this..when we circle back through BK I don't think we'll stay here again..


The next day we toured around to see some of the sights around town..including many, many statues of Buddha.




then we hired a boat to see the river side of town...sort of an Asian style Venice..


After this we went to the Grand Palace..quite an amazing place actually..the sheer opulence of it all was awe inspiring. The many monks wandering the aisles gave the place a real sense of history and majesty.









But BK is not all temples and Buddhas..there is the food of course..amazing food everywhere...and then there's the shopping as well..





One night we went to Silom road to look for some bars/clubs. We ended up in the 'boy-town' section. This was weird scene, especially since it was located right next to a 'Family Mart' store. After wandering around for a while and hearing all the propositions for "Boy Show" or "Ping-pong Show" and such we did what any self respecting newly-wed couple would do..we went back to our hotel and watched the Hallmark channel. (seriously, it was the only english channel we got).


After Bangkok we decided to get out of the big city and get into a more rural scene. For this we headed north into Chiangmai, city of a thousand temples..well only about 300 but still a cool place. It was a hot day so Helen made sure all the temple dragons were well hydrated.






From Chiangmai we took a hill-trek up to visit some of the local hill-tribes. This was very cool as we got meet these hill-families and stay in the their hill-houses and eat freshly caught hill-food (as in they killed and skinned one of their chickens for us). We found some wild hill-bananas and even got to wear some funny hill-hats. Trekking in the northern hills of Thailand near the Burmese border was definitely a highlight for us. It was amazing to see how these people lived in nature and make almost everything from bamboo. It was incredibly scenic..here are some pics.






















After the trek we headed south again to the historic city of Sukothai..where we are now..soon to head to the South circa Krabi and Ko Phangan to catch a full moon..unfortunately the forecast says it'll be all rain and thunderstorms. :( we'll see.