I should have started with a picture of a bus. The harbor in Bangkok is shallow and can only allow small ships to dock. Our ship only has 930 passengers but that is way too big. So we docked in Laem Chabang. Love that name! And we took a bus into the city of Bangkok. That took about 3 hours with heavy traffic.
Bangkok is the hottest city in the world. Its record cold temperature is something like 50 degrees and is at least 90 degrees most of the year. And very humid. They have many tropical fruits like dragon fruit and durian. But fruits we know like apples, cherries and pears are nonexistent. It is too hot to grow them.
We actually drove by several famous Buddhist Temples. All were explained. But of course I don’t remember the stories. We did get off the bus at this one so we walked around and took some good photos, saw many Buddhas etc.
But we could only look inside the Temple because there was a young man being questioned to become a monk. That is a very important ceremony for him.
We walked thru the flower market with all sorts of interesting flowers that we don’t know. And they make large braids especially of the yellow flowers.
There is also a section of the market that had vegetables. This photo was the bags of ginger. Can you imagine this amount of ginger.
But what depresses me the most about all of Thailand is the utilities. The wires and cables are everywhere. How they know where they are or where a break in the cable might be I will never know. What a snarled mess. And it is everywhere.
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