Footpath taken over by vendors

This problem is so bad in some areas that a government official proposed building an elevated footpath 50km all the way around Bangkok! Then visitors and locals could walk in ease without having to fight their way past all these hawkers. To be called the Sky-Walk. Some people quipped they ought to go the whole hog and build an elevated Bangkok above the existing Bangkok - call it the Sky-Bangkok.

Bangkok

September 2nd 2011
Wednesday 31 Aug ================ I caught a taxi to Phuket airport, then caught plane to Bangkok, arriving at the old airport at Don Meuang (rather than the new airport 'Suvannaphum'😉. Had a look around Sukhumwit rd in Bangkok - had trouble recognising many locations are there are so many new tall buildings there blocking old views. Thursday 1 Sep ============== I caught the & ... read more

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