Bangkok! - Blogabond

Hello!

So we are now in India, our last destination! (snif snif)
But that will be for the next blog...

After having spend some time on that paradise Island, and having seen beautiful under-water creatures..., we went back to Bangkok, to visit a few more tourists sights and to say bye to Thailand!

First, we went to see a tall Golden Tower, from which you can get a pretty good view at the whole town... but the actual site itself is not too interesting...

Close to there, we visited a temple with 5 or 6 levels that you can climb up... the place is

very quiet and each level has corridors with buddhas inside... it was pretty cool. Once up there, we could see from closer the roof of another building made of very detailed spikes ... (sorry it is hard to describe!!) and you could also get a very good view

of the town. Back down, we had the chance to talk to a monk who was trying to improve his english... he was very nice and very keen to know about us ... it was a very nice experience!

We also walked along the presidential palace which is very beautiful and very white! But Unfortunately we were not dressed to the standards to enter and anjoy the park around... so we just looked at it from behind the barriers!

One of the most important attraction of Bangkok, is the Grand Palace. It is the Royal palace, but you can not actually visit the interior, you can just walk outside, but it is also

the Royal temple called Wat Phra Kaew. It is one of the biggest temples in Bangkok, and one of the most beautiful...

It is made of a lot of different buildings, all rivalising with beauties, gold and colored decorations. Along the side walls, you can admire paintings which explain the history and legends of the buddhism.

Around the different buildings, you can find some very tall statues of soldiers and some much smaller of old angry looking fighters!!

Other figurines can be found all around the temple... full of colour and gold as well.

The main attraction of the temple is the Emerald buddha, one of the most venerated Buddha in Thailand... It is made of Jade, and it is not very big, but it is placed on a massive golden throne which makes it grand. It is quite an impressive religious thing, even for non believers like us!
(just so you know i wasn't allowed to take a picture of the emerald buddha... but I did it anyway... so sorry for the bad quality but I had to be dicreet and the lights were bad!)

Once finished with the tourists sights, we walked around town, enjoying the flowers displays, which can be quite impressive of technique, in the streets.

At night, we went to see a night market in one of the red district of Bangkok... It is a pretty soft red district and most of the people here come to see the market and have a drink... but you can't avoid to see that a lot of them are here for the girls, and in some cases the boys...

It made us quite sad at the end of the night to see how many girls do that to survive... and we also had the bad luck to see quite clearly two pedophiles...

I know it kills a bit the light touch of the blog, but you can not go to Bangkok and not see those things... Unfortunately there is little to do in such a short time, but it is crazy to see how open and accepted it is there... and how many europeans or other westerners think that it is allowed for them too...

Well anyway! Lets not let it get to us!!
We are now in India, and here it is another story as most of the women are very covered when dressed! But we already like very much the country...

All in the next blog!!

Agnes and Ola

written by

agnesola on February 22, 2008 from Bangkok, Thailand

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