Bangkok

I left Bangalore Friday night through the new airport. My flight happened to be only the second leaving from this airport ever. I was kind of anxious things would go bad with the airport opening but I made it only 2 hours late to Bangkok.
The new airport is far north from the city but it took us only 75 minutes to get there ( we had planned for 2 hours). It seemed all cops of Karnataka had decided they wanted to be there, and obviously too many of them can only create traffic jams which they were successful at. Once arrived at the airport it was like a full battalion of 2000 cops with bellies and wooden sticks roaming around a bit lost with that "Idunowhatamdoinherebutamhere" look in the eyes.

The building itself is gigantic, ultra modern, and looking great, nice duty free shops and cafes in the international area so once the workers will be trained it will be fine. Sree even succeeded at getting me interviewed about what I though about the new airport ! ;)

Once in Bangkok, I checked in my hotel by the river, and as I arrived early my room wasn't ready so I got upgraded to the before last floor, with complimentary business lounge, great view unlimited booze etc... Ok I took advantage of the deal quite a bit ! And I love The View:


During the 3 last days, I took a lot the shuttle boats cruising on the river to go sightseeing around the city. The main temples and the royal palace are really very nice and I was pleasantly surprised. The rest of my time I've been walking in markets and narrow streets enjoying the city and its great spicy food.

What Pho Temple

Who said HOT! ?

Obviously I didn't find enough time to sort out all the pictures from Sri Lanka and here, plus the laptop screen is giving artificially warm color tones and I don't like developing the pictures on it so I'll do all this when I am back home (maybe tomorrow :).