We've spent our time in Bangkok on or around Khoa San Rd. It's an area famous for attracting backpackers. Everywhere you look there is a bar advertising "very strong cocktails", shops selling anything you can think of, loads of street food, and of course, "Armani" suits. I can see how this scene would get very exhausting after a few days, but we've enjoyed our couple days here. I got to do some much needed shopping and scored loads of $3 tank tops. The pad thai they serve from street carts is delicious, and the cocktail buckets aren't too bad either. Last night we stopped on the street and got $3 foot massages w/reflexology treatment. Today my plan is to find a spa and splurge on the $7 eight step facial before our 14 hour bus trip to Chiang Mai.
The flooding doesn't seem to have impacted this part of Bangkok too much. We noticed it's hard to find bottled water and there are sandbags in front of every store, but aside from that, the streets are all dry. We walked down to the river yesterday and it was obviously more of a problem there. Our plan was to head to Chiang Mai via Ayutthaya to break up the trip some, but they say the flooding is too bad up there, so we'll take the long overnight bus and do it in one go. We were assured the bus will get us ere, so fingers crossed...
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