Bangkok, The city of Angels

My family and I decided to go to Bangkok in the summer time from Sydney. A small background about Bangkok is that its the capital, largest urban area and primary city of Thailand. Known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon meaning "city of angels" for short. We went from the airport to Majestic hotel in Nana district to manage our tour in Bangkok and place our baggage’s. At night, we went out in Nana road, which they had many restaurants covering the area as well as many booths along the road selling various objects such as t-shirts, DVDs, handcrafts, fruits and many other amazing things. Some of the exotic fruits that they had where Durian, Dragon Fruit, Jackfruit, Coconut, Starfruit and Mangosteen, the fruit that I actually loved the most was durian, which everyone should try when going there ;) . They also have various kinds of cuisines that could just amaze your taste.

After exploring the surrounding of the area we lived in, we went back to our hotel to rest for a while and the next day we started our tour to head to the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, which we woke up quite early to reach the market before it gets busy and crowded. It was quite an interesting market as most of the market is dealt within boats on the river, which we needed to rent a boat as well to go and buy some of the goods they have to sell like exotic fruits and traditional Thai crafts. 

After that we went back to the hotel to go to another tour that includes cycling. We went on a cycling tour to Chinatown and got to know Bangkok’s vibrant Chinatown and its communities of Chinese descents, whose ancestors migrated from southern China in the early 19th Century. Then we explored the other side of the Chao Phraya River, where we learned about the history of Thonburi, the first capital of the Rattanakosin Period, before King Rama I moved the capital across the river to The Grand Palace. We also saw some of the most popular Bangkok landmarks such as Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn), which has many Buddha statues, gardens and a temple at the top of the structure with long staircase, and Royal Barges Museum. To know more about the cultural view and the beliefs of the Thai people, I would recommend the Siam Niramit show in Bangkok, as we went to it and it was a dazzling experience there. The first act describes how Siam became a crossroads where civilizations met, the second how karma binds Thai people; the last how religious ceremony earns Thais merit in this life. Another good thing to do is to go to elephant shows and also ride them, which you can go to Kwai river and ride an elephant through the jungle and even take control as the mahout as well as taking the elephant to the river and bath them. 

After all this excitement, we all went to the MBK shopping centre and Central World on Sukhumvit Road for shopping, which are two shopping centre’s that cannot be missed when going to Bangkok. It is an amazing to go to and a place where the memories will stay forever, and its true when they say that it's the city of angels.