I'll cut straight to the point - Bangkok is too full of travellers and tourists. But before you think it, we also know that we are part of these travellers and problem. Everything is set up for the westerner abroad - food, entertainment, 'tat'; women! It doesn't have the mystique that many of the remote Asian towns we've visited have had. The experience of Khao San road is OK, but the road is smaller than we imagined - and never having seen 'The Beach' we had no great ideas of its importance. The city is cleaner than we thought, and has more grandeur, in parts, than we expected. The royal palace and temple (Wat Phra Kaew - temple of the emerald Buddha) is a really grand affair. In the grounds there are buildings hugely decorated, with
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