Having a long time fascination with elephants and a love of Thai food, I decided to ditch my traditional holiday pattern of visiting relatives overseas, traveling with friends and took advantage of discovering Thailand’s metropolis, Bangkok.
Traditional Thai Massage School was opened in 1955 inside Wat Po.
Bangkok smacks you in the face the second you step outside the airport terminal. The crushing humidity and putrid whiff of Asian city air is one you’ll grow fond of throughout your travels in the region, but upon emerging from the air-conditioned sanctuary of the airport for the first time, it’s like stepping into an oven - an oven in which they’re cooking vomit. Within 5 breaths you’ll become acclimatised though, and from that point on you’ll be riding the rollercoaster that is Thailand.
The land of smiles and scams is a full-on Asian assault of cool, beauty, mentalness, sleaze, and pure uninhibited fun. And despite its growing reputation for offering many of the trappings of the developed world at a fraction of the price, you can still haul ass out to the most rural areas and be the only foreigner in a town with no electricity, although admittedly you perhaps won’t be the novelty an outsider in such areas once was.
Bangkok is all it’s said to be. Bold and daunting from the minute you get off the plane. Perhaps we were lured into a false sense of security by the politeness and the thousands of greetings and smiles you recieve from the Thai people before you have even left the airport. One thing Bangkok knows well is to attract tourists. It has everything they could need, cheap accommodation in the heart of the city next to crazy nightlife, cheap markets and extremely cheap food and drinks.
Reclining Buddha (Wat Lokayasutharam) Thai Wraps.. Mmm! 
More soon. Next up, AMSTERDAM.
