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Transport, toilets, and taste

Transport, toilets, and taste

Transport    There are over 16 million people living in Bangkok, and all of them have somewhere they need to go. They may take their car (at 360% tax on car purchases, you must be WEALTHY), taxi (slow, but cheap and reliable), motorbike taxi (exhilarating...
Floating Market and Grand Palace

Floating Market and Grand Palace

   Early Saturday morning we hopped in the back of a minivan and went a couple hours west of Bangkok to the Amphawa floating market. We weren’t sure what to expect, but our stomachs were pleased to find a bunch of long-tail canal boats cooking freshly...
Tuk-tuks and Temples

Tuk-tuks and Temples

My first impression of Bangkok was a city packed full of silent well-dressed people in a hot, sticky environment stinking of exhaust fumes. It’s a lot more than that, surely, but that was my first impression as I hopped on the skytrain to meet Lauren and Emilie...
Bangkok-bound

Bangkok-bound

   It’s 4.30am on Friday morning and I’m sitting in Singapore airport ready to board my flight to Bangkok. Even the airports are different over here. Once I was through to my gates, I went to the bathroom…and instead found a gaping hole in...
So this is island life

So this is island life

After a two hour journey past the biggest palm oil farms in the world, and a quick stop off the road at a delicious fruit stand, we finally arrived at the jetty to head off to Sea Gypsy Village at Pulau Sibu. It was a 15 minute boat ride with bewildering views of lush...