Hello, today I would like to tell you a little bit about the crazy capital of Thailand, Bangkok. Come on, read along , it may be helpful when planning your visit there.
I fall in love with Bangkok from the very first, evening walk. We have stayed in the area called Ratchada, which is located quite far from the main city, and we had the best night market just 40 mins walk away. Ratchada Night Market is essence of night markets. Really, this place is very cool! Loud and colourful. You can do almost everything there. Do you want to do your hair, but you won’t waste a day for it? Not a problem. They have got a hairdressers there, just next to the place where you can eat awesome Thai, street food and drink super cheap, cute looking cocktails. That’s not everything. You can do your nails there and, if you would like to, go straight to the tattoo salon. How crazy is that? We visited a few night markets in Thailand, but Ratchada’s one is definitely my favourite. The only problem is that market is a bit far away from the city centre.
Talking centre, Bangkok is such a multicultural place that you can find a bit of everything there but don’t go too crazy and don’t forget to visit at least a few main temples, for example: Wat Phra Kaew, Wat Arun and Wat Saket (the Golden Mountain)- those are temples we saw and I have been well impressed with them so I can really recommend it to you guys. Just remember to dress appropriate to the place. No short, sleeveless dresses allowed. You need to make sure your shoulders and knees are covered (both female and male), it’s also good to cover your cleavage to show the respect for monks. Exactly the same rules have to be followed when visiting the Grand Palace (must see in Bangkok). I’ll tell you now, the entrance ticket is expensive but this place is worth it. It’s good to have a whole day for this attraction. First of all: it’s huge and you can just walk around for hours. Second: it’s very crowded and you will need a lot of patience if you would like to take a picture without people in it.
When I’m thinking about Bangkok I can’t skip such an important thing as transportation. Most of the main tourists’ attractions is close to each other, but sometimes you may need to grab a grab (something like Uber, just remember they are banned for Grand Palace and airports so better use a traditional taxi then), take a taxi or use a tuc-tuc. From our own experience we know that taxi drivers aren’t using GPS and they seems to not know their own city or they are just riding around to make you pay more. Add crazy traffic on top of it and you are spending more time in the vehicle than sightseeing. In these situations, train maybe a better choice, but we never tried so I haven’t got any information here for you.
I hope this post is helpful for you guys and don’t hesitate to ask, below in comments, if you have got any questions for me, I’ll always try to give you best answer according to my knowledge.
TIP: there is a beautiful unicorn cafe there. You may want to visit this place for your perfect, instagram photos.
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