Yoga and fried chicken
This is an ad for KFC — perhaps one of the strangest ads I’ve ever seen.
More Wat Pho photos
Green umbrellas
Who wouldn't like a city with pink taxis?
Bangkok’s bright taxis add a whole lot of color to what would usually be drab, smoke-clogged highways and roads. Florescent green, blue, yellow and orange taxis are everywhere, but my favorite are the nail polish pink taxis.
Space for monks
Monks board the water taxi on the Chao Phraya river. Where other cities may reserve space for the elderly and pregnant women on public transportation, Bangkok’s boats and trains reserve seats for monks.
Bangkok by night
Bangkok’s Wat Arun as seen from the Chao Phraya River.
A day at Chatuchak
Last weekend I wandered around Bangkok’s famous market, the Chatuchak Weekend Market, with Alicia, the other ILO intern. You’ll most likely see lots of photos from this market — I have plans to go often as long as I’m in the city for the weekend. It’s a sprawling maze of everything you can ever imagine. This is the antiques section of the market.
Welcome to the UN
Anti-government protesters with the People’s Alliance for Democracy have been sitting outside the UN building in Bangkok all week. (I think of them as a welcoming committee of sorts.) In 2006, the same group’s protests helped topple Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra. Although newspapers — and UN security — keep warning that the protests could get violent, I can’t imagine this group of people becoming violent. So far the protest has consisted mainly of people hanging out on a grassy area where they’ve pitched tents, eating street food and taking naps.
To Coup or Not to Coup in Thailand, Asia Times, May 31, 2008
A photo a day
During my summer in Thailand, I’m going to try to post a photo a day on this blog. (For the maybe 3 of you who used to read my former blog, I had to switch to wordpress because Blogger was giving me all sorts of problems.)
To start out, here’s a photo of the reclining Buddha at Wat Pho in Bangkok.