We have landed in Bangkok around midnight (noon back home) after 19 hours in the air and 24 hours of travel time. Our flight was on Korea Air, very comfortable and we were on one of those huge planes with two levels (although I never did find the stairs)! We met an interesting guy on the plane from Chicago who was traveling to Korea to teach english for a year. They pay for your airfare, apartment, car, insurance and also pay you quite a bit on top of that. He doesn't know how to speak the language at all, but somehow it works out. The next day we worked our way through Bangkok (close to 9 million people) and found ourselves at the bus station to wait 8 hours for a night bus to take us
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