Khao San Road, the tourist street, still lively ... Bangkok, Thailand, January 2007.
Khao San Road, the tourist street, still lively ... Bangkok, Thailand, January 2007.

In the frenzy of Bangkok

  Thailand: Southern Islands - January 2007

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Here I am back in Bangkok, and not without pleasure, I must say... Ah! the return to civilization, it's good: no more mosquitoes and long live fast internet connections, restaurants, streets where it lives and shops worthy of the name!!!

Khao San Road, the tourist street, still lively ... Bangkok, Thailand, January 2007.
Khao San Road, the tourist street, still lively ... Bangkok, Thailand, January 2007.

That said, I am quite frustrated in my buying fever : I don't know if it's the dives that have narcotized my neurons, but after three weeks under the coconut trees, I managed to forget the secret code of my credit card...

In short, I screwed up three times trying to type in this damn code to withdraw money, because I thought I would have a well-deserved afternoon of shopping... Unfortunately, the ATM obviously ate my precious card (on the third mistake). Fortunately, I was able to get it back from the bank, which was open, with a kindly attendant behind the counter: phew!

Except that now, the card, even with the code, doesn't work anymore. It's automatically blocked for security reasons... I changed the few euros I was keeping just in case and I have enough to survive until tomorrow. But no futile purchases for the moment. It's infuriating!

Food market, close to Khao San Road. Bangkok, Thailand, January 2007.
Food market, close to Khao San Road. Bangkok, Thailand, January 2007.
Store of bondieuseries ... or rather of "bouddhaseries". Bangkok, Thailand, January 2017.
Store for bondieuseries... or rather "Buddhaseries". Bangkok, Thailand, January 2017.

I consoled myself by walking around. The streets of Bangkok are better than the TV. The show is permanent and free, between the small street restaurants, the street vendors, the strange and more or less unidentified food that passes under your nose, the lost tourists, the tuktuk drivers who rush on, the T-shirt and clothes sellers, the copycat CD dealers, the bondie stores where golden Buddhas are displayed in the window wrapped in plastic, the monotonous chants of the monks in the small temple that separates the street from my guesthouse on Khao San Road...

Weird... I don't feel like taking the plane back tomorrow!

  Thailand: Southern Islands - January 2007

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  1. We loved Bangkok so much that we stayed 6 days to discover it all. The must: get lost in Chinatown ... have you tried?

  2. @Alex: Bangkok est une des rares capitales en Asie du Sud-Est où j’apprécie de passer un peu de temps. Ça fait un moment que je n’y suis pas allée, d’ailleurs. Pas eu l’occasion récemment d’aller me perdre dans le quartier chinois…
    🙄

  3. Hello,

    nous allons prochainement faire un petit périple en famille de 6 semaines en Nouvelle-Zelande/ Thaïlande/Malaisie. je me demandais donc si vous seriez d’accord de me donner une ou deux adresses pour loger à Bangkok et Kuala-Lumpur? En tout cas bravo pour votre site!

    🙄

  4. @Wairua: Bonjour, cet article date de février 2007, donc plus de 4 ans… Tout change très vite, question hébergement en Asie, difficile de vous recommander un lieu en particulier aujourd’hui en 2011, ça fait une éternité que je n’ai pas remis les pieds à Bangkok. Je n’ai pas d’adresse à vous indiquer, désolée. Faites donc comme moi : feuilletez un guide de voyage comme le Routard et le Lonely Planet…
    😉

  5. Au top Bangkok 😉 Je me suis retrouvé tout seul dans ce grand “bordel” mais j’ai adoré, la population, la bouffe, les temples, tout.

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