Shopping...Thailand's favorite activity. It seems as if every second person is selling something; food, clothes, gadgets, lottery tickets, you name it. Even in the halls of the hospitals vendors set up booths. Busy Silom Road, a major downtown street with three lanes each direction becomes a shopping mall every Sunday evening with motorized traffic banned (except for the motorcycles that weave through the pedestrians. Walking the length...many blocks...was my version of window shopping.
Bangkok is a few degrees cooler that Ayutthaya. Funny the difference between 98 and 95. After that thunder shower some days ago I noticed that the puddles did not evaporate very fast...a feature of humidity in the upper 90s. No one here says "but it's a dry heat." Thai people complain a lot about heat and when I answer "This is Thailand" they laugh.
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| Bananas on the tree by the house |
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| Market on Silom Rd. |
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| Market on Silom Rd. with my Skytrain stop in the background |
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| Papaya tree by the house...fruit has more than doubled in size since I came |
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