Well folks, due to a number of reasons, I have unfortunately decided to return to Canada. Well, that decision was made last week, I'm actually back in Whitby now, and will be back in classes at Trent tomorrow. With that being said, after this post, I shall be bringing this blog to a close until my next adventure.
Thursday was my last night in Chiang Mai. I nearly got myself arrested for jaywalking that day. Apparently the Royal Family's motorcade was coming down the street, so I became a scurity risk. Needless to say, the cops weren't too happy with me... Later that night I went out for a couple drinks with the one friend I made in Thailand, and then returned to my apartment around 1am, still having to pack up all my stuff. I had to be at the airport by 6:30...
So after pulling an all-nighter and sleeping only in the plane, I found myself in Bangkok. I had 17 hours to kill until my flight left for London, so I stowed my bags at the airport and went exploring. After an hour busride into the city, over a distance that should only have taken about 20 minutes, I began to walk around. The first thing I came across was the National Museum - a museum of Thai history, with thousands of various artifacts. It was a really impressive museum, I could have spent all day there. There were rooms of masks, rooms of weapons, rooms of textiles, sculptures, jewellery, everything. My favorite part was the building dedicated to the royal chariots. Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to take pictures, because these are just undescribable. I can start to understand why the Royal Family was considered divine at one time.
After the National Museum, I walked down to the Grand Palace and the Temle of the Emerald Buddha. There isn't much to say about this, other than that it was very impressive. I'll let the pictures do the talking.
After that, I wandered through some markets and the tourist ghettos. I really wasn't too impressed. So then I decided to walk across town to see the largests Buddha image in Thailand...one 4o feet tall. So I walked for about 45 minutes, only to be not very impressed. You'd think it would look nice, but no, it was this:
Finally, the day came to an end, and at 12:30 I flew out of Bangkok. I had been gone for exactly one month. Its unfortunate that it didn't work out, but despite that, despite having my room broken into, depsite almost not going because the airport was occupied by protesters, I did manage to see a lot of cool things and do some things I couldn't here.
For a full photo documentation of my trip, check facebook. I posted all my pictures there. For those of you who don't have facebook, you should be able to see them all through these links:
There should be one last album being posted soon with more photos from the Tiger Kingdom, I will post that link here once I have uploaded those pictures.
So that brings this blog to an end for now. Thank you to all who have been following it. I shall hopefully see all of you soon!
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