city life
Chatuchak Market & The Grand Palace
Consulting a map, our guidebook, and our desire to see each corner of Bangkok’s local and tourist scene we hopped on borrowed single speeds and left from the Shanti Lodge destine for Chatuchak Market. The ride was the usual wrestling with cars for space while ourselves and the motorcycles weave through traffic. Accidentally turning down closed roads […]
Market Hopping & The Reclining Buddha
Out the front door of our accommodations, Shanti Lodge, we wandered a few hundred meters to the neighborhood talad (or market). Unlike the famed night markets, the morning market features fresh (wet) goods for residents and merchants. Far from the forced “health measures” practiced under the USDA; this market featured on site butchering and still […]
Wandering In Bangkok & Khao San Road
Over breakfast at Suk 11 Hostel we decided we would move closer to the sights of downtown Bangkok. Shuffling the bikes and bags down the narrow halls from the third floor was a process but soon we were loaded and riding west. Never ones to take the direct route we weaved through the city stopping at […]