Greetings from Bangkok

[Circuits]

Didn't go too hog wild on the food, since I've got diabetes, so have to take it easy on noodles and bread. A real pity, since I dig me some spicy pad thai.

For those of you who know the city, we hung out and toured mostly in the old city around chinatown (mostly rattanakosin), and avoided the tourist and shopping areas being occupied by the protesters. By doing so, we had no trouble, other than being some of the few tourists around in a large city, which tended to concentrate the scam artists and tuk-tuk drivers all around us.

I was changing clothes and showering three times a day, and drinking water bottles as fast as we could clean out 7-11 for more. It's SERIOUSLY HOT and very humid there. If I'd had more time on the ground, my body would probably have adjusted and not sweat so profusely any longer, but there wasn't enough time for that to happen.

Bangkok has to have more temples per square mile than any other city in the world - mostly buddhist.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Did ya get scammed on the free the birds thing in any of the temples?

[Circuits]

Did ya get scammed on the free the birds thing in any of the temples?

No, but all the temples were closed when we went by (Buddhist holiday, special ceremony, etc), according to the tuk tuk drivers and their shills outside. But we were so special they opened up just for us by the time we walked to the main entrance(s).