The best $1.50 I have ever spent

Before venturing out for the day, I figured I should take advantage of one of the many barbers in our neighbourhood.  I found this little place with cheesy Thai tunes rockin and it seemed to be quite empty.  Despite the wierdness of the woman wearing a face mask she did a great job.  Lot's of weird powders and stuff, but whatever works.  Deirdre also enjoyed this place as the A/C was cranked. What a great return on my 70baht ($1.50) investment.

Experiencing the Bangkok transit system was great treat.  It is a intricate system of ferry boats, vans, busses, subways and a state of the art skytrain.  We started by taking one of the express boats from one end of the city to another.  The virews of the Royal Palace, chinatown and various wats were amazing.  Needless to say, the water was quite polluted, but it served its purpose.  We transfered at the south pier onto one of the new skytrains. I was amazed at how simple, efficient, and clean the system was.  I think our Canadian cities could learn a lot from the way they do things here. 

After getting off at Siam station (central station) we entered Central World shopping centre.  This super mall looked like it was from the future and was absolutely immaculate.  After passing through metal detectors and taking a quick look around, it became quite obvious the volume of money that is spent in here.  I have never seen so many designer stores, fancy boutique shops and, well let's just say there were Lambroghini and Lotus stores selling their high end cars right in the mall!   This was pretty hard to compute when less that a one hour flight from here, children are dying in Laos due to no money for simple anti-biotics. 

What a strange world we live in.

What a great way to start the day

The infamous Koh San road, a.k.a backpackers heaven

Getting ready for breakfast at the JJ market

Bangkok public works cleaning the main streets

Deirdre was so pumped when we saw these little tacos for sale. Yeah not so much.  Turns out it was filled with marshmallow, with shredded carrot and green onion on top!  goo

View from the blue flag river taxi

Outside of Siam Station

The maze of escalators inside the Central World shopping centre

Me showing my displeasure for the "diver" Renaldo

Just in case you go to the mall with a few extra bucks...

Take care,

CF