ï»¿{"id":238,"date":"2001-07-07T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2001-07-07T09:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/?p=238"},"modified":"2011-01-29T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T16:57:48","slug":"arriving-in-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/2001\/07\/07\/arriving-in-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image ngg-left\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\n\t\t        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/bangkok.jpg\"\n           title=\"Bangkok\"\n           data-src=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/bangkok.jpg\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/thumbs\/thumbs_bangkok.jpg\"\n           data-image-id=\"1818\"\n           data-title=\"Bangkok\"\n           data-description=\"Bangkok\"\n           target='_self'\n\t\t\tclass=\"shutterset_2edede875fb02c88c38bd699f0a64f55\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n                 src=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-content\/gallery\/thailand\/cache\/bangkok.jpg-nggid041818-ngg0dyn-320x240x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n                 alt=\"Bangkok\"\n                 title=\"Bangkok\"\n\t\t\t\t                    width=\"320\" \t\t\t\t            \/>\n        <\/a>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\tI just arrived at the Bangkok International Youth hostel. Wow &#8211; this is going to be my first report to all of you &#8211; so what can I tell you?<\/p>\n<p>I spent my last evening in Austria in Vienna, together with my Cousin. We went to a &#8220;Biergarten&#8221; named Fischer Braeu. For me the last chance to eat a original &#8220;Wiener Schnitzel&#8221; and a cold beer (or two&#8230;)<br \/>\nMy last night in Austria was quit strange, four different dreams and every time I missed that dam plane! Thank god those dreams didn&#8217;t come true, I went to the airport early, got my tickets and had my first take-off to Zurich. I left Zurich at 3:00 p.m. and went straight to Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was quiet comfortable, I was sitting next to two young Swiss girls so time passed by pretty fast. A very funny short-story: Whenever I asked the stewardess for a &#8220;Coke&#8221; she smiled at me, and handed me an &#8220;Orange Juice&#8221;. But beside that little misunderstanding, it was a very enjoyable flight.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving in Bangkok, after 11 hours on the plane went along with an unfortunate surprise. My luggage didn&#8217;t make it to Bangkok, it decided to stay in Zurich. Fortunately it will arrive later today. I&#8217;m a very optimistic person and I look at this in a very positive way: I didn&#8217;t have to carry &#8220;the BIG bag&#8221; trough the whole city. He He. Well, on my way to the hostel I already met a local &#8211; Rudi &#8211; I&#8217;m going to meet him again in the afternoon to talk about Austria (right &#8211; I&#8217;m a very trusting person).<\/p>\n<p>5th of July, My first day in Bangkok<br \/>\nI spent my first afternoon waiting at the hostel for my luggage, talking to other travellers. At 3:00 pm I met Rudi again who invited me to his home. We talked about this and that, but mostly about Austria and his work. He is a &#8220;croupier&#8221; at a cruise ship, and married to an Malaysian woman. I was also invited to eat at their house, but after more then 28 hours without sleep my stomach just said NO. \u00a0I spent about three hours at Rudji&#8217;s house before I went back to the hostel.<\/p>\n<p>I was still without my luggage, so I had to wait until 9:00 pm. Not being tired at all at this time, I decided to join a few other backpackers (two guys and three girls) to go to Patpong, which is one of the most famous &#8220;sex-districts&#8221; of Bangkok. We went there by Tuk Tuk (70 Bhat) which took us about half an hour. For me, Thailand and Bangkok was always known as a place for sex-tourists, walking around at Patpong, I found out that it&#8217;s not soo bad at all. You get invited to see sex shows quite frequently, but if you say &#8220;No thanks&#8221;, they leave you alone.<\/p>\n<p>After about 1,5 hour we decided to go back to the hostel by taxi (120 Bhat). So, after about 36 hours without sleep, I went to bed for the very first time in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>6th of July, Train Station Bangkok<br \/>\nA very relaxing day, we first went to the train station to get a train-ticket for Surat Thani, and then we took the Bus Nr. 29 to go \u2013 well where ever it would take us&#8230; It took as through the whole city. To explore Bangkok by bus is really recommendable, it\u2019s only 3.5 Baht a ride, and you can see the whole city.<\/p>\n<p>7th of July<br \/>\nWe went to the \u201cGrand Palace\u201d, a very impressive place, but since I\u2019m coming back to Bangkok later this month, I did not spend much time there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just arrived at the Bangkok International Youth hostel. Wow &#8211; this is going to be my first report to all of you &#8211; so what can I tell you? I spent my last evening in Austria in Vienna, together with my Cousin. We went to a &#8220;Biergarten&#8221; named Fischer Braeu. For me the last &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/2001\/07\/07\/arriving-in-bangkok\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arriving in Bangkok&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-backpacking","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}