Bangkok!

So Danielle and I have had a wonderful two days in Bangkok before we head to India (tomorrow will involve doing nothing but swimming in our pool and getting a message to prepare us for our flight). Yesterday we decided that we needed to get back into sight seeing as we have pretty much been lying around on beaches for the last two months (minus Angkor Wat). Anyway, we were looking a bit lost apparently and this wonderful man that I guess worked for some tourist agency came up and set out a whole plan for the afternoon for us and then escorted us to a tuk tuk driver and got him to drive us around for the day for only 59 bhat (less than two dollars). I am pretty much sure that if Danielle and I had asked for the same thing we would have paid like 300. So our super nice driver takes us around to all these amazing temples. It also happened to be a Buddhist holiday so lots of people were visiting temples to pray and give offerings which I really like to watch cause Buddhist people just seem better than everyone else. Anyway, we saw this amazing Standing Buddha which must have been at least 30 meters high and everyone was covering his feet with flowers and gold leaf. We saw a couple other temples and then took a river taxi a couple of stops to see the Royal Palace and Wat Pho where the famous reclining Buddha is. Before those sights we drank some delicious red dragonfruit juice and had a sweet lunch. First we went to see the reclining Buddha which is 46 meters long and 15 meters high. Its made of brick covered in plaster and then coated in gold. His feet are inlaid with mother of pearl showing the 108 characteristics of Buddha. It was absolutely amazing. Pretty much the whole temple complex, which was huge, was covered in gold and sparkling glass. It was actually kind of blinding in the afternoon sun. We ended up spending quite a while at the temple as it was so big and so beautiful so by the time we left the Royal Palace was already closed. Today we went to MBK which is a massive mall. Mostly just wandered around, got pedicures and ate some delicious food. I am currently adding a bunch of pictures to facebook so everyone that is hip head over there and check them out. Those of you who are not on the book I guess your shit out of luck. Or go find someone young.

Anyhoo SEA has been absolutely amazing and I am really sad so be leaving but incredibly excited for our next adventure in India.