Signing off from Thailand

Our last day in Thailand was spent in absolute comfort. We spent the day relaxing in our great hotel, watching Transformers 2 at the mall, and having lunch and dinner at the Mall's wonderful food courts.

Bangkok was a far friendlier experience than Chiang Mai. Taxis are plentiful and dirt cheap ($1-$3 a ride), and the food is more accessible as well. If you are going souvenir shopping in Thailand, we would also recommend you save your shopping for Bangkok. The standard tourist trinkets can be had for far cheaper in the non-bargaining stores in the mall; you really get taken for a ride at Chiang Mai's Night Market.

And so our trip comes to a close. Our visit was documented mostly through pictures of food and random landscape shots, but we hope you got a feel for how it is to travel through SE Asia. We had a great time roughing it through cheap hotels, cheap eats, and cheap travel. We played with tigers, elephants, parrots, and tropical fish. We consistently marveled at how cheap it is to live in SE Asia. And most of all, we had a great time.

From now on, Michael will be documenting his experiences in Korea.

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