Homeless and Lost in Bangkok

The ride from Vang Vieng, Laos back to Bangkok was a long one. I left Vang Vieng at about one in the afternoon, we stopped once at Vientiene (the capital) to change buses, then again at the border to deal with immigration, then we finally arrived in Bangkok at five in the morning. I was still in a daze, and had no where to go, so I just wandered around walking between Khao San Road and Rambuttri Road with my packs in tow. My flight wasn't until 1 am the next morning so I had about 18 hours to kill.

Statue at Wat Pho

My backpack was killing me so I found a random place to sit in front a food stand, where I met Jasper, a girl from California, with the biggest book I had ever seen a backpacker carry. It looked like an encyclopedia. We roamed around Rambuttri Road and found ourselves at a river where we watched a very flexible man partake in his own yoga session, and a group of older Thai people doing very cute aerobics. We eventually parted ways and then I was on my own again.

Awkward picture with the reclining Buddha. (You can still see the star on my arm from Vang Vieng)

To quickly summarize the last day of my trip (and because I am quite sick of blogging about it 6 months later) here is a quick recap: checked my bags into a storage, wandered around Rambuttri Road, and Khao San Road, found myself in a local market, wandered more, went to the National Museum, found a park next to a river, fell asleep in the park, security guard woke me up, I exited the park embarrassed, found myself in a wat, wandered more, then I found myself at Wat Pho, full name is Wat Phra Chettuphon Wimon Mangkhlaram Ratchaworamahawihan (try saying that ten times real fast), home of the 43 meter long reclining buddha. I took more awkward pictures alone, wandered more, then I officially found myself lost and alone in Bangkok.

Statues at the fountain

I took out my map, was approached by a Thai man who was trying to help me, then calls over a tuk-tuk and tries to explain to me where I'm going to go, then next thing I know I'm being escorted into a tuk-tuk, then driven away. I had no idea what just happened. I had no idea where I was going and was certain I was going to get robbed and shoved into some sort of sex trade business.

Thirsty cat at the fountain