Welcome to Thailand!

It was the Shortest Bangkok Trip – ever!

Yes - I was sad to leave India. However I was much more excited to finally get to see Thailand. I arrived here 4 days ago on a Monday morning. Having almost no sleep on the flight from Calcutta, I went to bed for a good day time sleep right after arriving to our luxurious Saphai Pae hostel. 

 On the way to Bangkok & The view from my "luxurious" hostel room 

The plan was to meet up Utku (who would be in BKK only for 2-3 days) and my next travel buddy Secil, coming from the UK. Confused with the time difference I woke up around 2pm thinking it was 11.30pm and 1 hr later I had my call with the Electrolux office in Belgium about the changes in the company and possible jobs for me. It wasn’t really fitting into the schedule of my ordinary days in the trip, however I was happy to get it done and see a clear picture ahead of me once I come from SEA.

 Having our first Thai food with Utku & Pad Thai Utku

I met with Utku, we walked around Bangkok streets, had my first Thai Thai dinner, passed by a night market and met with Secil who arrived around 8 pm. At night the plan was to have some drinks in the city and with the suggestion of a tuktuk driver we ended up in a place called Insomnia – which seemed to be quite central location – with a lot of locals & international. Wasn’t a bad place already. We finished our first night around 3-4 in the morning, but I could have stayed longer as the music was really cool at the place however I was way too tired.

We are meeting just for dinner in Bangkok! 

Second day was super short and inefficient apart from buying our tickets to Sukhothai for the night bus and meeting up with Perasa for a super short but really nice talk. She was an AIESEC intern in Belgium a couple of years ago and I am pretty sure I haven’t seen her for more than 2 years.

On the way to the Bus station discovering the parks & Meeting up with Perasa years later

This trip was short as I slept most of the time, and eventually I haven’t seen much in Bangkok. – In fact not at all- However I was happy to meet up with Utku and Perasa instead, as I know that I would be back to Bangkok. I still don’t know when / how though but the intention is to come back to this crazy city.

Insomnia 

I didn’t spend more than 20 hrs on the streets of Bangkok I guess but one could easily grasp the craziness of the city. It is alive 24/7, full of people all the time, side street shops or booze booths contribute to this craziness.

 Bangkok Streets by night

OK it was nice to meet with Bangkok but I want to get to know her much better as soon as possible!