Our first few days in Bangkok
December 11th 2008 We have arrived at day four of our Bangkok adventure. Bangkok is a city of contradictions. 5-star hotels next door to ruins. Porsches in shop windows while noisy tuk-tuks hurtle by. Elephants on busy highways; Go-go girls ducking out of work to pay homage to Buddha; Hot chips in red curry (we'll come back to that). The city is fast-paced, noisy, smelly and strangely alluring.
We stayed on Sukhum
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