Sunday, January 24, 2010

Bangkok - Thailand

BANGKOK- The crazy mecca for travelers!
We arrived in Bangkok and had planned to stay for 5 days to really see the city, and we did! Bangkok is a really nice city, once you leave the backpacker area.

Llegamos a la capital de Tailandia, Bangkok, una ciudad que tiene de todo! Recorrimos los templos, fuimos de compras, salimos de noche, vimos el boxeo tailandes y pasamos unos 5 dias muy divertidos.
Ahora vamos a poner en pausa Tailandia para ir a Birmania 2 semanas y despues volver.


A sculpture near the Siam shopping district



Buildings of Bangkok!

State of the art sky train


Shopping, shopping and more shopping......a shoppers paradise.

The biggest market in Bangkok

Khao San Road at night


Agustin in a tuk tuk.....drinking the local brew!


Khao San Road....



The many Wats around Bangkok







The Giant Swing


The Golden Palace

A typical Tuk Tuk, they hound you everywhere you go- "You need tuk tuk? Where you go?"

The golden Palace



A solider guarding the palace


Bangkok by boat!

Some random festival we found ourselves at-




We went to a free concert in a park, put on by the Bangkok Symphony orchestra

Me and Ronald giving the typical greeting in Thailand, "Sa wat Dee Ka"
Muay Thai boxing night!



Muay Thai fighting!


Sunday, January 17, 2010

Chiang Mai - Thailand

THAILAND



We said good-bye to Laos and crossed the river into Northern Thailand. In Chiang Mai we did some shopping, looked at many Wats, and saw the most amazing Elephant park with the most incredible elephants! If we didn't see the tricks with our own eyes we might not have believed what they were capable of!

Chiang Mai!

The Wall around part of the city

Wats, Wats, and more Wats. Wats are equivalent to a church. The monks eat and pray here. People come here and adorne Buddha with gifts such as money, food, candles, incense, and water.

We saw this ad at a Burger restaurant- kind of sick, but kind of a cool picture too.....





Chiang Mai at night, most famous for its street markets selling food and goods.



The Elephant Park!

Agustin feeding the elephants bananas! They would eat the whole bushel if you fed it to them!



Bath time!



The Amazing Elephant Show!




NO JOKE, these elephants painted pictures! They would be handed a brush, witch they held in their trunk, then they would paint!! If we didn't see it, we wouldn't have believed it! After they paint the pictures they sell the paintings......UNBELIEVABLE!
This elephant took the longest time of all the elephants, he opted to blend his colors to make a painting of the surrounding mountains.
All done, carrying away his supplies!

The 5 paintings that the elephants painted in front of the crowd! Aren't they amazing?!?!!!!


Darts!

The elephant park, its a great place to live for these amazing animals.