BANGKOK, THAILAND We finally made it to Bangkok, Thailand mid November and what a relief it was! The journey from Siem Reap to Bangkok was a torturous 12+ hour day on tiny, packed, unairconditioned buses on unmaintained, unpaved roads....moral of the story, don't go out drinking before a trip like this. When we got to the Thai border, the bus dropped us off and we had to walk in the blistering heat with all of our bags about a kilometer over the border and through customs. Delay after delay, we finally pulled into the capital! Bangkok is an amazing city- when we arrived at night you could see skyscrapers, billboards, bright lights and all of the streets were lined with restaurants, bars and amazing shopping. We stayed just off of the famous Kao San road in
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