Ooh, a new country and culture to explore. We take a back streets bike tour as our first outing, and are ably led by the intrepid Jackie Chan along tiny canal paths and across busy roads where he stops the traffic with a wave and a whistle. We see glimpses of colour amid the concrete jungle, visit temples and a huge golden Buddha, walk through a fragrant flower market and take ferries across the river. All around are gentle smiling people, and our happy hormones kick in so we are grinning too.
Bangkok is remarkably smogless, we're already accustomed to the heat, and the traffic jams don't really affect us - we travel today by bike and a/c local bus so happily people watch when delayed, and laugh along with the bus drivers when ours gets too close and smashes the other's mirror!
These bunches of 10 stems orchids cost 35c!
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