One week in Bangkok

One week in Bangkok was way too much. We stayed in the most touristy street ever – Khao San Road and decided to call it ‘Salou of southeast Asia’. It’s all about partying and it seems like people are drunk 24 hours a day. Mainly English tourists, a lot of Dutch of course – because everywhere you go you’ll meet Dutch people and sometimes I wonder if there’s really only 16 million people in our country. You’ll also see a lot of prostitutes who try to pick up western guys. It works - we’ve seen it with our own eyes.
Out of Khao San Road we went to see the Royal Palace, saw a big Buddha and some temples – and we’re already sick of Buddhas and temples. We probably saw too many of them on our previous trip. Everytime the Lonely Planet named one we followed our travel bible. This time we consider our bible not that holy anymore and stick to our own plan. We also took rides on a tuctuc and got sick of the drivers who try to take you to souvenir shops – they get commission for that. We ate street food – which is delicious – and tried scorpions, caterpillars, dragonflies and cockroaches (I’m trying to picture the look on your faces now).
Now it’s time for some tanning and island hopping. Right now we’re at Koh Pha Ngan, a small island 500 kilometres south of Bangkok. We have our own little wooden bungalow near the beach. Besides beautiful nature the island offers some great partying; we went celebrating Black moon party a few days ago and Half moon party lies ahead of us. We're planning to do a diving course as well and we've already rented a scooter for a few days to discover the island. As you can see we're not planning on coming home anytime soon!