Our flight to Bangkok was right between Ho Chi Minh city and Taipei on this Narita Airport departure screen. (If I'm taking a photo of it, it's still a thrill to live here.)
And Thailand: we loved it! I found Bangkok a bit overwhelming with children, but we had a nice work/life decompression at Sheraton's beach resort in Krabi province (southeast of Phuket island) and especially enjoyed Chiang Mai, a mid-sized city in the north. I'll write several posts about it.
The flight to Bangkok: 7 hours, arriving at midnight. Here we are, headed to a Mercedes that took us to Le Meridien hotel. (Posh 5-star hotel at the "bargain" rate of $160/night deal on Expedia!)
The morning view from our 16th-floor room:
We took the very clean Bangkok subway to the Chatuchak weekend market to see some neat stuff. First stop: Coconut ice cream, scooped into a coconut shell, with raw-coconut scrapings underneath.
A Buddha shop.
Frosted cupcakes!
Gigantic prawns, gray, alive and wiggling (at left) or pink and boiled.
Feather duster salesmen.
And a shop full of baskets.
After a few hours in the heat (December is the mildest month to visit Bangkok but we are wimps), we returned to the hotel to swim in the swanky 6th floor pool.
More on the way...
1 comment:
Yay! I've been looking forward to the Thailand report. Hotel looks great! A pool in Bangkok must have been so lovely.
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