Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Thailand...

...Part II
ราชอาณาจักรไทย*

Thailand: 65 millions people, 514,000 km2 (or 198,000 sq mi), about the size of France or larger than the State of California. Capital: Bangkok. Driving on the wrong side of the road and another “weird” way of writing!! And by the way isn’t it terrible when you go to another country and start missing Chinese characters, well when they are not using roman letters at least.

So paradise looks like paradise anywhere. And with an airport as cute as this one, we've probably landed not far from it!


But here we got a little closer to paradise with our private bungalow right on the beach. And that’s pretty much all we did:

We did take a break one day and explore a little bit of the island:

On our way back home (Beijing!) we stopped in Bangkok (so we can cross it off of our list: “Been There, Done That!”) and visited some temples…Isn’t it what tourists are supposed to do?:

And because it’s Thailand… the traditional chocolate on the pillow in our room had a different flavor:


*Thailand in Thai