Heading to Chiang Mai soon
In a few hours I'll be boarding the night train to Chiang Mai, Thailand. I'm not super excited about Chiang Mai since I've been there before, but I'm ready to get out of Bangkok. I've had enough of it for now. Bangkok is where I thought I would be flying out of for home 6+ months ago when I started my trip, so this feels like a second phase of my trip is just beginning. I'm really looking forward to it. Hopefully I'll be able to meet up with Ivo and Helen in northern Thailand.
Yesterday (Sunday, 17 December) I took the passenger ferry boat down the Mae Nam Chao Phraya (river). It was a nice way to see part of Bangkok and the passenger ferry is quite cheap. The last ferry stop happens to coincide with a station of the futuristic (sort of) sky train, an elevated light rail system, albeit with only 2 lines its not very expansive. So I planned to take a ride on the sky train for different views of Bangkok. Its really nice and efficient and my only complaint is that neither line come any where close to the area I'm staying. I got off the sky train at the same station I got on! So with the 'discovery' of the passenger ferry boats and sky train, I figured out a way to take public transport to some other parts of Bangkok, as the bus system is apparently really difficult to figure out. Then I took the ferry back to my 'hood.
Since I'm on such a long trip I've found my days of sight seeing are actually quite short. I take my time in the mornings getting started and get back early in the afternoon or evening. I'm never in any real hurry to see sights and if I don't get to see something in a particular city I'm never too disappointed. I always feel that I've left something to see next time I visit, even if it doesn't seem like I'll be back in a particular city in my life time. Compared to a lot of people I meet I see a lot less in a given period of time. But I've gotten use to that.
My friend, Juliana, from San Fran who I first met in Tibet, was in Bangkok for the last night of her trip so I met up with her and a friend on Sunday night and we went out on the town for a little while. It was good to see her.
Today (Monday, 18 December) I really didn't feel like doing any sight seeing so I went and laid by the roof top pool of a hotel that I stayed at previously (shhhhhhhh.......). It was nice to escape Bangkok for a little bit.
My train leaves at 10 PM tonight but luckily I can hang out at my hotel until then.
Yesterday (Sunday, 17 December) I took the passenger ferry boat down the Mae Nam Chao Phraya (river). It was a nice way to see part of Bangkok and the passenger ferry is quite cheap. The last ferry stop happens to coincide with a station of the futuristic (sort of) sky train, an elevated light rail system, albeit with only 2 lines its not very expansive. So I planned to take a ride on the sky train for different views of Bangkok. Its really nice and efficient and my only complaint is that neither line come any where close to the area I'm staying. I got off the sky train at the same station I got on! So with the 'discovery' of the passenger ferry boats and sky train, I figured out a way to take public transport to some other parts of Bangkok, as the bus system is apparently really difficult to figure out. Then I took the ferry back to my 'hood.
Since I'm on such a long trip I've found my days of sight seeing are actually quite short. I take my time in the mornings getting started and get back early in the afternoon or evening. I'm never in any real hurry to see sights and if I don't get to see something in a particular city I'm never too disappointed. I always feel that I've left something to see next time I visit, even if it doesn't seem like I'll be back in a particular city in my life time. Compared to a lot of people I meet I see a lot less in a given period of time. But I've gotten use to that.
My friend, Juliana, from San Fran who I first met in Tibet, was in Bangkok for the last night of her trip so I met up with her and a friend on Sunday night and we went out on the town for a little while. It was good to see her.
Today (Monday, 18 December) I really didn't feel like doing any sight seeing so I went and laid by the roof top pool of a hotel that I stayed at previously (shhhhhhhh.......). It was nice to escape Bangkok for a little bit.
My train leaves at 10 PM tonight but luckily I can hang out at my hotel until then.
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