People are constantly coming up to you in the streets to offer advice. I am currently sitting in a cafe downtown because it was actually the only way to escape a man begging for money. Everyone is trying to get you onto a boat or a tuk tuk or a taxi or their buddy's taxi.
We attempted to do the Lonely Planet walking tour of Old Bangkok today which promptly resulted in getting so, so lost immediately and having to pee so bad with no toilet insight. I cried like a little girl will Bryce frantically flipped through our phrase book for "toilet". My finest moment in Thailand thus far.
It is absolutely striking to see the palace, the military base, a shrine and two temples, absolutely spotless covered in gold and jewels, and white washed all to hell right next to what I would call a slum.
Everyone here has very little money. I guess what else do you do to survive when there's a constantly fresh pool of tourists to make money off of one way or another?
We attempted to do the Lonely Planet walking tour of Old Bangkok today which promptly resulted in getting so, so lost immediately and having to pee so bad with no toilet insight. I cried like a little girl will Bryce frantically flipped through our phrase book for "toilet". My finest moment in Thailand thus far.
It is absolutely striking to see the palace, the military base, a shrine and two temples, absolutely spotless covered in gold and jewels, and white washed all to hell right next to what I would call a slum.
Everyone here has very little money. I guess what else do you do to survive when there's a constantly fresh pool of tourists to make money off of one way or another?
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