02.28.10
And Now for Thailand
Today I thought I would continue with my travelogue and share some of our pics from Thailand. I thought they had an interesting looking airport. It was rather large and sci-fi looking. Dad said it was a bit freaky looking, which I can see, heheh. Here’s a small sample of the building as we approached.
Imagine this same structure stretching out for a couple miles or more. Not sure why, but it kinda reminded me of a big insect or insect dwelling or something. Maybe I’ve watched too many Alien movies. . .
The hotel we stayed it was called the Baiyoke Sky, and is the tallest building in Bangkok. Here’s what the building looked like as we approached it.
Our room was on the 40th floor. Aaron and I shared one room even though there were three beds in the room. For a fancy hotel with large rooms, I found the interior design surprisingly a bit plain. Here’s what part of the room looked like.
On the opposite side of the beds there was a small lounge, bar and TV.
Hmmm. Not very exciting decor, no? But the room was clean and very spacious including the bathroom, which was probably more than twice the size of my bathroom at home.
After doing a little snooping around the room I found a Bible written in both English and Thai. Very interesting writing. . .
I found the Thai language difficult to repeat, and being that their written language is so different than English, I found it doubly challenging to figure out what things were. For instance we’d pass a lot of building with Thai writing and I’d have absolutely “no” idea what was inside.
Here’s a picture of some Thai currency.
It looks to me to be the picture of their king on their money. The exchange rate at the time we were there was about 31 or 32 bhat to 1 US dollar depending upon where you exchanged money. Speaking of their king, it seemed like they really loved their king and often spoke highly of him. His pictures were in so many places throughout the city.
Here are a couple views of Bangkok from our hotel room window.
Apparently, the shadow to the right is our hotel. Here’s another angle from the same window.
Large city, huh? I didn’t know what to expect from Bangkok, but somehow I didn’t expect it to look like this. It was pretty crowded and had a little similarities in the way to the Philippines. However, I admit that it’s a bit cleaner than the Philippines and their roads seem more orderly even if it’s still a bit crazy. One difference is they drive on the left side of the road like the Brits. The Filipinos drive on the right side like us Americans. They did have little tricycle-like taxis called “tuk-tuks.” The name comes from imitating the sound of their engines. Here’s a pic of one.
Breakfast was served between 7 to 10AM on the 79th or 82nd floor depending upon the day. This was part of one of my breakfasts.
Along with this.
Yum, I really do miss that kind of breakfast. It really hit the spot for me. They actually had a very large buffet, which included many types of breakfasts including the regular ham and eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, french toast, yada yada, but there was no way I was going to eat like that when I had all this other stuff to try.
Okay, so after breakfast we headed down to meet the tour guide. I’ll post some of those pictures on the next Thai post.
Marlakins
