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Published: June 25th 2017
Our sweet balcony
After twenty seven hours in transit, we finally arrived at our destination in Bangkok. The first thing we did was grab a beer and raise a toast to the beginning of the adventure, while breathing in the warm humid air of a Bangkok night and listening to the live music from the street below. We made it!After being in transit for twenty seven hours, it was a nice surprise to find that the hotel we had booked, while being in the heart of old Bangkok with its very lively night scene, also provided quiet refuge so that we could spend the first few days of our trip recouping from jet lag and getting used to the warm, humid, plus 27 degree temperature - a welcome change, after our Sask / Arctic send off. The first thing we did when we got to our hotel room was had a beer on our deck and enjoyed listening to the live music from the street below, before closing the door to indulge in a long inviting rest in a real bed. Highly appreciated after being condensed in airplane seats, trying vainly to sleep, for so many hours.
When we did eventually get out and begin to explore Bangkok the following evening, we were reminded of all the reasons we loved Bangkok the last time we visited. Bangkok is vibrant; it's energy evident in so many forms. The city wakes up at dawn, with vendors opening their shops and setting up on the sidewalks for another day of sales that
Street music
We listened to the music from this bar every night. don't shut down until late evening. The smells of food cooking, the constant sales pitches of merchandise vendors, the cacophony of tuk tuks honking horns and overall traffic madness, all provide a perfect backdrop for Bangkok's best pastime - that being people watching. Diversity abounds; anything goes. And running throughout all of this, like an underlying theme, is the love of live music that the Thai people have, in particular American classic seventies folk / soft rock, and jazz. It is everywhere, and it is always live. How can you not love this?
When the vendors finally close up their shops in the late evening, and the music ends around midnight, the city becomes quiet. Then the street cleaners come around and clean up the rubble from the day, getting everything set to start again in a few short hours. That is Bangkok: vibrant and full of life.
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Susan
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Okay, that looks just plain tickley!