Saturday, February 18, 2012

You want mmaaaaaaasssaaaaaage?


After our time in Ko Phi Phi and Ko Lanta we headed to the big city: Bangkok.  Our hotel was located in a pretty touristy part of town, Rambuttri, which is right near the Khao San Road which is ultimate tourist part of town.  Everyone around us was white tourists with backpacks. Shame.  But that’s okay because touristy part of town equals shopping and that is what we did.  There were lots of shops and stalls selling everything from knockoff polo shirts to $1 pad thai to fried scorpions to pashmina shawls.  We went to the Chatuchak Weekend Market and bought more things that can’t fit into our backpacks.  Then we went to MBK Mall (also known as the best mall ever!) and bought more and more stuff that couldn’t fit into our backpacks.  I was super excited about buying $10 Lacoste shirts which look pretty real.  Every night we spoiled ourselves and got 100 baht foot massages on the street, sitting in the rows of chairs filled with tourists getting massages.  We ate lots of pad thai, curry and tom yam soup and other yummy Thai food.  We made one attempt at being cultured and visited the Wat Phra Kaew and Palace then went back to shopping again. 
We hope to return to Bangkok again soon, with more space in our luggage!  Now we’re back in India, currently traveling around the north with Olivia’s mom and sister.  Yippee! 
Love,
The Wandering Two

Chairs lined with people getting massages

Crickets, scorpions, grubs etc... YUM

Red Bull is from Thailand...did you know this?

MBK food court...no idea what anything was, we just ate it

Tom Yam Soup

$1 pad thai on our street, came in handy when we spent all our baht shopping!

Lots of delicious fresh fruit everywhere

This is me happy

On the crazy Khao San Road

Olivia and Becky at the weekend market

Sweat rag had to make an appearance

The temple and palace

So good

Olivia and Becky getting mani/pedis for $6

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