Night 1: Bangkok

Upon landing, we spent our first night in Bangkok. Kicking it off with our departure from the airport, we hired a van to haul us and our things to our hotel, Best Western Sukhumvit 20.

The first thing I noticed was that Thai driving is INSANE. I can't make sense of any of the traffic laws, people are driving motorbikes with women sitting side saddle on the back, tuk tuks race to and fro, it is MAYHEM. We arrive at our hotel and get a much needed shower after almost 24 hours of straight travel. 

Next we headed down to 7-11, yes the convenience stores, which is extremely popular out here and VERY different. You can get almost anything you need at 7-11s, including hot food. After picking up some snacks and water and storing it in our room, we took off for appetizers at the 64th floor of the Marriott in Bangkok, called the Yao Skybar. The view was spectacular:

After the sky bar we grabbed tuk tuks and headed out to a seven story mall - the MBK center. Now, tuk tuks are the traditional taxi here, this is obviously not a picture of us, but I wasn't able.to get one:

Image credit: ForeverVacation

That looks nice and unassuming, but these things absolutely rip down the street narrowly dodging cars, scooters, pedestrians, etc. If they were to make a Fast & Furious Thailand movie, I'm pretty sure they'd drive tuk tuks instead of fancy cars. We caught one of these to MBK Center and I loved it, it was so much fun. You pass by the food stalls and hustle and bustle of the city at night, which was so much fun to see.

We didn't do much at the mall besides eat Burger King honestly, which, by the way, the Whoppers are enormous.

Finally we went back to the hotel and settled in for the night because our next task was waking up early to catch a flight to Krabi province in the south, our last flight for 10 days. More on that later though!

Love you guys ❤️


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