Street food near the hotel
A Working Trip to Bangkok, Thailand - 2nd October 2004
Another work trip to the Far East commences with a stopover in Bangkok for a couple of days. There's a day of work-related stuff, but it leaves an evening and a whole day to roam around the heaving, smelly and very hot city. This features an entertaining run around the city in a Tuk-tuk, visiting various temples until the inevitable 'my cousin's shop where tourists get government subsidy' diversion at which point the Tuk-tuk is ditched in favour of Shanks's Pony. There's also a trip on the needle boats that ply the rivers, which took a few goes to get the hang of: they stop for just a few seconds, so there's no time to discuss destinations or anything and then they're off. You have to hope for the best that they're even going the right way.
next album: A Couple of Days in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - 5th October 2004
previous album: Mark Joseph at Revs, and the BSCC at Hoxne and Wortham - 30th September 2004
Down on the hot street
Chillies and mystery bags of vegetables
Bangkok street scene
A cheerful woman sells meat on a stick
A pop-up café
Under the bridge
Evening market stalls
A stroll down a side street
Mobile scooter-driven food stalls
The Erawan Shrine, dedicated to Phra Phrom
A scene of incense and candles
Some traditional Thai dancing occurs
An offering of fruit and flowers to the god
The Erawan Shrine
The Thai instantiation of a Hindi god
More smoky scenes
Thai dancers
Wooden elephants with gold foil on their heads
Nosher's dinner
The river taxis only stop for a few seconds
The needle-boat churns up a big wake
Crowded riverside houses
A hard-hatted river pilot keeps an eye out
Riverside houses
A woman with baskets of fruit roams around
The temple of the standing Buddha
Statues covered with squares of gold foil
A massive standing Buddha
A back-street scene
Over the rooftops
Palm trees in a garden
An incredibly-ornate temple building
Another gold-leafed statue
A woman and a wheelbarrow
Nosher's tuk-tuk driver makes some running repairs
Some crazy wiring
Wat Benchamabophit - the Marble Temple
Massive lilly pads
Another western tourist looks at statues
Old dudes play chequers outside a cafe
Every car is a taxi
Views from Phukhao Thong Wat Saket
Bangkok City
The view down to the river and the needle boats
Fake plastic Buddhas
Pinnacles at the top of the Golden Mount
Nosher in the required bare feet
Another self-portrait in the Filipino Barong shirt
This is where the world's mahogony is going
More wheel-based shops
A woman with a sack-barrow
Down by the riverside
One of a million tuk-tuks heads off up the street
Plastic-wrapped Buddhas
Back on the river in a packed river taxi
The needle boats of Bangkok
Another taxi steams up the river
The oddly-deserted foyer of the hotel
The traditional 'view out of the hotel' photo
There's a trip to a huge night market with music
More Thai-pop randomness with an umbrella
Back-stage fruit sellers at San Luam Night Bazaar
Bright lights, hot city
The hotel window view, by day
Nosher's hotel room
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Street food near the hotel
Street food near the hotel
Down on the hot street
Chillies and mystery bags of vegetables
Bangkok street scene
A cheerful woman sells meat on a stick
A pop-up café
Under the bridge
Evening market stalls
A stroll down a side street
Mobile scooter-driven food stalls
The Erawan Shrine, dedicated to Phra Phrom
A scene of incense and candles
Some traditional Thai dancing occurs
An offering of fruit and flowers to the god
The Erawan Shrine
The Thai instantiation of a Hindi god
More smoky scenes
Thai dancers
Wooden elephants with gold foil on their heads
Nosher's dinner
The river taxis only stop for a few seconds
The needle-boat churns up a big wake
Crowded riverside houses
A hard-hatted river pilot keeps an eye out
Riverside houses
A woman with baskets of fruit roams around
The temple of the standing Buddha
Statues covered with squares of gold foil
A massive standing Buddha
A back-street scene
Over the rooftops
Palm trees in a garden
An incredibly-ornate temple building
Another gold-leafed statue
A woman and a wheelbarrow
Nosher's tuk-tuk driver makes some running repairs
Some crazy wiring
Wat Benchamabophit - the Marble Temple
Massive lilly pads
Another western tourist looks at statues
Old dudes play chequers outside a cafe
Every car is a taxi
Views from Phukhao Thong Wat Saket
Bangkok City
The view down to the river and the needle boats
Fake plastic Buddhas
Pinnacles at the top of the Golden Mount
Nosher in the required bare feet
Another self-portrait in the Filipino Barong shirt
This is where the world's mahogony is going
More wheel-based shops
A woman with a sack-barrow
Down by the riverside
One of a million tuk-tuks heads off up the street
Plastic-wrapped Buddhas
Back on the river in a packed river taxi
The needle boats of Bangkok
Another taxi steams up the river
The oddly-deserted foyer of the hotel
The traditional 'view out of the hotel' photo
There's a trip to a huge night market with music
More Thai-pop randomness with an umbrella
Back-stage fruit sellers at San Luam Night Bazaar
Bright lights, hot city
The hotel window view, by day
Nosher's hotel room