Today is the beginning of the Thai new year, Songkran, otherwise known as a countrywide water fight. This is a 3 day event and is a government holiday. I'm sure by the end of the holiday we will have been drenched many times. Yesterday, Friday, we did several modes of local transportation. We wanted to go out to a large shopping center called the Paragon Center which required using the Sky Train. Bangkok has a good mass transit system and we had fun trying to learn our way around. The shopping center was huge and connected to other centers as well. We rode to the end of one of the lines which took us to the river. We rented a long tail boat for an hour so we could explore the canals (klongs). While going through
... read more