bangkok, 5 things to love

1. the airport is lovely. ive been to dubai and people will probably say that dubai airport is better/ richer looking but i love bangkok airport. the view is awesome and you instantly get a flavour of the city with the strange food places lining up for you when you're exiting.


2. fried chicken bones. i ate a lot fo weird things there but to make even chicken bones an incredible meal by itself takes imagination and a real love for the bizarre. im a sucker for the bizarre :)


3. everyone's smiling. they have a few rules. like you dont touch a thai person on the back of his head, it pisses them off majorly and anyway why would u do that? but most of the time they're all in a good mood. dosent mean they are always being nice. they could give you the broadest smile and cheat you happily out of everything youve got. hehe but its endearing.


4. theme park malls. this is a universal faviriote. five floors of street fashion shops, no fancy showrooms just hundreds of tiny shops selling the best and cheapest clothes you can find anywhere.
intersperse that with bag shops, cheap dvd fellows, bra sellers who have piled up their tiny wares somehwere in the middle, a t shirt guy with some brilliant manga/ anime prints, a huge food court with the MOST BIZARRE looking food, a giant blue chirstmas tree up front , and you have a theme park to explore instead of a mall.


5. Siam niramit - Bangkok's very own variety entertainment show (not like but as big as the moulin rouge- 150 performers, 500 costumes) takes place every evening in a theatre so stunning that its an experience just being there and seeing the awesomeness of it. And i had the pleasure of doing an event inside it! unfortunatley i never saw the show myself which is an absolute shame but the theatre with the crazy ceiling heigh, the stage thats big enough to accomodate elephants , and the built in water bodies was just magnificent


Next trip: see the siam niramit show, go boating in the floating bazaar, explore chinatown more and take an off bangkok trip to kosamui!! anyone wanna come along?