This is more culture, init?

"George" has complained about too much beach stuff and not enough culture in the blog, so here goes.....

Having been to Bangkok before, I can't say its my favorite city in the world, but it does do two things very well, namely food and temples.

The Thai food we have eaten has been some of the very best on the trip, and even within Bangkok its possible to eat both cheaply and well. Surprisingly, there is even good food available in the shopping centres, where unlike most countries, the independent outlets haven't completely lost out to the chain restaurants. There is also a huge range of other food available, including English theme pubs (one of which we shamefully visited when in need of some UK comfort food).

Being a predominantly Buddhist country, Thailand is full of temples, and nowhere is this more true than Bangkok. Using the canal (very smelly) based ferry system, we travelled from our hotel in the Sukumvit area to the main temple area, where we visited Wat Rajnadda, and Wat Traimit.

Wat Rajnadda

Wat Traimat temple houses the largest gold Buddha in the world. Remarkably, despite being three metres tall, weighing five and a half tonnes and thought to be worth in excess of 140Million US, it was actually lost for several hundred years.

Wat Traimat