Weekend in Bangkok

As you all probably know we had a long weekend away in Bangkok to get away from the political demonstrations in Dhaka and to renew our visas.
We managed to get a few things we needed that we can't get here and enjoyed lazing by the pool, eating yummy food and generally doing it tough for the whole weekend.

Just down the road from our hotel was a mall called Terminal 21, absolutely massive and each floor was themed to a particular city of the world, with London, Paris, San Fransisco and Istanbul amongst others. Despite all the photos of food, we didn't just spend the whole weekend eating!!

A Place called BarBQ plaza, pretty self explanatory, you cook your own food on a mini barbecue.

It was a really cheap meal at approximately $12AUD including drinks.

The Paris themed floor of the mall.

A Japanese restaurant in the same mall,

The best cupcakes we have ever had, we had to go back a second time, just to make sure they were still as good two days later!

We went out to the Chatachuk weekend markets which are meant to be one of the biggest in the world. It was certainly easy to get lost in the maze of stalls, and we probably didn't even manage to get through half of it while we were there.

Yummy street food at the market.

Don't look too hard at the kitchen in the background.

 We ventured out to Chinatown, very interesting place, much like china towns in other parts of the world I imagine.

 And just to make you all super duper jealous, a photo of the awful pool we had to force ourselves to swim in!!

As far as weekends away go I'd have to rate it about a 12/10. Only ten days till we go to India (if you didn't know we are quite excited), won't be as nice as Bangkok I'm sure, but it will be a step up from Bangladesh for a while.

Grant