I arrived in Bangkok last night and spent my first day here going to see the golden palace, only to be told it was "closed for a Buddhist ceremony" (which was a lie) and taken on a wild journey on a tuk-tuk (a 3-wheeled motorbike thing that is equal parts danger and awesome). I'd forgotten that I'd read that the palace never closes and to be weary of a scam but I forgot spur of the moment. Fortunately it worked out for the best. We were supposed to be taken for a trip to 3 other temples with a CONVENIENTLY placed stop in the middle at a suit shop. I've already seen 5+ ads for suit places since I've been here, advertising 4 suits/shirts/ties/pants for $139US. So many shotty suit places, so little time. So anyway, we went to temple #1 which was actually pretty cool. Then as we were waiting for our driver in the Tuk-tuk some guy sparks up a conversation with us and tells us how he just came back from holidays with his family and that the beaches are packed so we should book everything today. So we had our driver take us to a travel agent and now have a solid 2 week trip booked included 12 hour bus rides, riding elephants, rock climbing and beach bumming. We're also off to Ankor Wat. Should be a
great couple weeks....
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