Today we did more of a tourist thing....took a boat trip up the main river called Chao Phraya and saw lots of temples and other religious buildings from the water. Apparently there are 400 temples in Bangkok and 30,000 in Thailand! We alighted at Wat Aroon - the temple of Dawn and 'did' that for a bit. The Temple of Dawn is huge and apparently built even before Bangkok existed. We are in an internet cafe so can't upload a picture of it!
On the other side of the river was the Grand Palace where the king used to live which we walked around in the heat of the sun!
Yesterday, after blogging we headed for IT City to track down a list of software. IT City has to be seen to be believed - it was five floors of computer shops....we reckon about 500 outlets selling computer hardware and software both legal and possibly not so legal. Once the decision is taken to buy the software we were given a slip of not very official looking paper and told to return in 15 mins! Draw your own conclusions!
We left IT City and jumped into a tuk tuk who took us kind of willingly to his 'shop' for a very cheap fare....the deal was we had to go look and hopefully buy, but there was no obligation to buy.....but we did - the shop was a Nepalese tailors shop and we have ordered tailor made trousers for Amanda and silk shirts for David which will apparently be delivered to our apartment this evening! We shall see!
Tonight we are on the hunt for Rolex watches in the red light district of Bangkok called Patpong - the night market is the place to find them and we have just seen the stalls being set up in readiness.
Its really really hot in Bangkok and we are looking forward now to coming home to some February weather! See you soon.
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