Thailand (my thoughts)

I promise that I would post a much more extensive review of my time in Thailand and although it's taken me a week or so, here it is!

Unfortunately, our time in Thailand was super short and the three of us who went are already discussing what we would see if we go back ever. We had only 6 full days to experience a huge culture and country so of course it was not enough. We figured that since we only had 6 days to travel, we only would hit two cities: Bangkok and Pattaya.

Bangkok is a huge Asian city and sort of feels like all of the other Asian megacities I have seen lately (odd statement to make, but I have seen a few in the past couple of months). I thought it would be much dirtier and grimier because of it's reputation; Bangkok is said to be the City of Sin for Southeast Asia. I didn't get that vibe at all when we were there. We spent most of our time in Thailand in Bangkok, almost four full days, and I liked almost all of it. We saw the Grand Palace and Wat of the Emerald Buddha like every other tourist:

We also got to see Wat Pho which has a HUGE reclining Buddha inside:

And what was nice, is that since we had so much time in Bangkok, we got to see some less traveled sites like the weekend market and Park Lampini which had GIANT native lizards just hanging out there!

After Bangkok, we took a break from the city to lay on a beach for a few days which was amazing. Thailand has a reputation of having great beaches and it did NOT disappoint! We would have liked to make it down to Phuket (where "The Island" with Leonardo Dicaprio was filmed, supposed to be beautiful) but with only having a week and $200 a ticket to fly down there, we decided a two hour bus ride to Pattaya was more realistic.

Pattaya was beautiful anyway and the ocean is warm off of any coast in Thailand so we definitely enjoyed our time there.

And the nice thing about Pattaya was that they had an elephant rehabilitation center there so we even got to ride an elephant one day!

All in all, we definitely like Thailand. I personally loved the feel of Thailand- it is quite possibly the best Asian country to vacation in because the feeling is so relaxed but there is still a strong and interesting culture to experience. After only a week, I would definitely say I would go back and for much longer next time!