We arrived in Bangkok at 8.30 in the morning after a two hour flight with Tiger Air...the budget airline from Singapore. We took a London Taxi to the hotel and were able to check in straight away. We looked out our window and this is the view from the window.

The area we stayed in was a few minutes walk from the skytrain and the area is Sukhimvit.

We took a river cruise up the river to visit the palace and the emerald temple. These buildings were so ornately adorned that they just glittered and sparkled in the sun.

This is a photo of a mural along one of the walls of a temple.

This is the palace. We couldn't go in as there was a state function being held.

This weekend was their New Year celebrations.
This bridge was awesome to see...we could see the wires from way back.

Another day we walked in a shopping mall and Wayne was able to dream about the car he would have liked to have. Just as well dreams are free.

Wayne was given some gorgeous flowers made into a circle by a delightful little boy dressed in national costume.
Overlooking the road we could see travel banked up for ages and then we looked up and we could see where the skytrain goes in the other direction - on top of each other. The pink cars are taxis but I couldn't get Wayne into one of them.

This family travels together but the youngster doesn't have a helmet on. Notice the water pistol in his hand. Used for squirting people during the Songkran New Year Festival.

This guy was sitting and having fun wetting everyone in either the car or on foot...he sent some children over to get Wayne as he saw Wayne taking his photo. The children came over and Wayne chased them and wet them as well. .

As you can see the children were having a great time. We were just amazed during this weekend how many people entered into the spirit of it and if you didn't want to get wet all you had to do was hold your hand up like a stop sign and they didn't wet you. Absolutely incredible...not sure it would be like that back home. It is neat to see that all people of all ages and races could enjoy this festival, where if you get sprinkled with water it is like rubbing away the bad luck.

One night we decided to go to the night market...this was a big mistake...although we had heard that the night market was a good one to go to. We got off the skytrain and heard this loud hum...we looked over the side and this is what we saw...we were gobsmacked...you couldn't see the ground, only peoples heads, there was even a vehicle trying to travel along the road. The sounds were only happy ones and nobody seemed to be disgruntled. We decided we couldn't face all the hoards so we went up a side street close to our hotel for dinner and to watch the people.

After dinner and a couple of drinks we strolled slowly back to our hotel. On the way back we found the coolest little bar we have ever seen...brings a new dimension to the VW. We just had to stop and have another drink on our way...you know how it is.
One of the malls had all these sausage dogs lined up along the walkway...we just had to take my photo with one of them...isn't it quite cute?