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Bangkok

I spent a fair amount of time in Bangkok, and considered it my “home away from home” in Southeast Asia.  I found it endlessly fascinating–you never know what’s going to turn up around the corner. Elephants, tattoo artists working with a bamboo needle-holder and tiny cups of dye, street vendors selling fried grasshoppers and insects, or a thoroughly modern skyscraper with an embedded 7-11 store.

You can read more about my adventures in Bangkok in the Thailand section of my travel blog.

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Bangkok Market Woman Bangkok market woman with her wares.
Bangkok Reclining Buddha Head of the Reclining Buddha at Wat Po, Bangkok. The Reclining Buddha is enormous--15 meters high and 46 meters long.

Bangkok Street Vendor My favorite food stall in Bangkok. Very yummy pineapple-beef-chili skewers. Notice the bicycle at one end.
Bangkok Woman With Baskets A soup vendor in Bangkok. When business slows, she just picks up the baskets and moves on.

Grand Palace Gargoyle A gargoyle near the Grand Palace.
Grand Palace Monks Buddhist monks in the Grand Palace. Most Thai men become monks for at least a brief period of their lives.

Grand Palace Statues Statue in the Grand Palace. These are so detailed you can make out the embroidery patterns on their robes!
Ploenchit Fair A Scottish-Irish-Canadian-Thai (!) band fiddles away at Ploenchit Fair, an annual charity event sponsored by the British Embassy.

Reclining Buddha Detail Detail from the feet of the Reclining Buddha (Grand Palace, Bangkok). The feet stand at least fifteen feet tall and are covered with 108 detailed mother-of-pearl images like this one.
Siamese Cobras Siamese cobras at the Snake Farm. They breed 6 kinds of deadly snakes there to provide antivenin, supplying most of Southeast Asia.

Snake Farm Blue Kraits Blue kraits. The expression here clearly says, "Why am I holding two of the most venomous snakes in Asia?"
Snake Farm King Cobra King cobra at the Snake Farm in Bangkok. I think king cobras are actually pretty cute. :-)

Snake Farm Milking Cobra Milking a cobra for its venom. The venom itself looks like just a few drops of clear oil.
Snake Farm Tien Burmese Python Me with a very lethargic Burmese python.

Thailand Development A very nice summary of Thailand IMO: beautiful scenery, massive construction, and modernism with smog.

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