Jasmine, Sophia, and I took a weekend trip to Bangkok, Thailand, and it was absolutely fantastic. I love Bangkok. We spent 4 days there and fit in a lot of sight-seeing and a LOT of shopping. The Thailand Baht is about 35 to 1 usd, so everything was ridiculously cheap.
We stayed in a nice little hostel that was pretty close to everything, although we had trouble getting a room for 3 people, so we ended up getting a 2 person room and all 3 of us ladies slept sideways on the bed with our feet dangling off!
Some of the sights we saw were the giant reclining budda.. which was ENORMOUS. It took up a whole length of a building.
They made me wear this shirt in the building because we weren't allow to have bare shoulders.. gross.The coolest part of our weekend was going to the Floating Market! We got to hire a little motor boat that takes you down this narrow channel of water, and all along the route there are little vendors on the banks and in boats floating around too trying to sell you trinkets and fruit and coconut drinks! SO incredible. This video is a little sample of what it was like!
Here are some pictures from the floating market. Sophia and I were drinking our coconut water! Mmm.
From the Floating Market, our boat driver took us to this remote area where we got off the boat and walked into this jungle-esque area. It was pretty shady. But we were going to see elephants! Another huge highlight of the trip. We got to ride elephants for only 600 Baht and they took us around this trail ... just like a horseback riding trail where all the elephants just walk and follow each other along the loop. So neat. We even went through water, which was scary cause I almost slipped out of the seat!
