Travel Adventures: Beautiful Strange Bangkok!

FLOATING MARKET

We made it to Bangkok last night! It was an easy trip and we're ready to see the city but it means the trips coming to an end soon :(

Since we only have a couple of days here we set out to see it all as fast as we can! Our fist stop was the beautiful floating market and the Tiger Temple. We took a boat along the market waterways. It was a game of bumper cars but allowed us to see how the market has conducted business for centuries. There were slow boats and speedboats along this tiny waterway which made for some interesting maneuvers for everyone!

Men and woman cooked in their boats while paddling along the canals. They carried small hooking sticks to snag your boat and pull you alongside them to sell their goods.

A little snack along the way shared boat to boat. Probably the best spring rolls of the trip.

Tiger Time!!!!!

We visited Tiger Temple, or Wat Pha Luang Ta Buang, in western Thailand. This is a Buddhist Temple that the monks have turned into an animal sanctuary to house all kinds of poached or injured animals. Among them of course are the famous Indochinese Tigers in these pictures. It was pretty scary and exciting to get this close to these amazing huge animals! The littlest move made you jump when you were petting them. I had one roll over onto my foot while kneeling next to him, scary! (Shea).

Baby tiger cub taking a snooze :)

Here's the view from our balcony back in Bangkok! We went out for a night on the town and met some interesting characters :)

Spencer tried some crazy CRAZY foods! Grilled scorpion and toasted crickets, no thank you!

Lady-boys Vegas Style

Waiting for the show to begin....

No trip to Bangkok would be complete without seeing a Ladyboy show! We chose one of the tamer Vegas style shows to check out. Even though we didn't understand what was happening in most of the acts because they were in Thai, we enjoyed the show of dancing and singing.