Thailand/Cambodia - first travel - part 2 - Bangkok

We travel around Bangkok using all possible means of transportation. The easiest is to ride the subway and overground rail (skytrain). The hardest is to ride taxis and tuk-tuks. And is impossible for tourist to ride the city bus without knowledge of Thai language. Every taxi driver won't turn meter on and treats you as a walking wallet. When you tell them where you want to ride, they nodding his head in understanding and then the problems begin. Everyone knows where you want to ride but after a few meters of driving they start to inquire "about details "and you realize that they have no idea where to go. English they do not know at all. Geographical names do not tell them anything. Maybe our pronunciation is wrong or they do not know the topography of Bangkok.

The heat is terrible, about 30°C (86°F) and humidity close to 100% (this is the end of January).

Monuments knocks our socks off - all the temples are just beautiful. Even modest temple in the middle of nowhere make impress on us. Everything is so different and refined down to the smallest detail.

We're riding the SkyTrain and subway to the train station Hualamphong. Then we walk along the street Yaowarat (about 500 meters) and reach Wat Traimit (20THB - everytime I give the price of admission for one person - the price may be out of date - the data on this are from 2010).

During crossing the street Yaowarat we realize how much we have to learn here. Trying to pass the road for unfamiliar with this subject european people, is a big challenge. Nobody here cares for pedestrian crossings priority. At first glance, you can see the fresh whites standing on the edge of the road and watching Thai people crossing the road, deftly weaving between vehicles. Over time, however, a man learns this difficult skill. At the beginning I suggest you just go behind a native, and do not to try any sudden movements. Drivers very smoothly omits us on all sides, and no one will be hurt. In the middle of the road going you to feel like in the middle of the river current :-)

In the temple of Wat Traimit we admire the golden statue of the Buddha. We do not see anything special about this statue - also the temple is not exceptionally beautiful.

Then we walk on Chinatown and when we are bored e between the stalls, catch a tuk-tuk and ride to Wat Saket (The Golden Mount) (10THB). From the top of the temple is a nice view of the surroundings.

This is the end of the tour today. We're back in the hotel.

I'm afraid to eat the famous Thai food from stalls on the street.  So we are going to Tesco for dinner and try the local cuisine in one of the restaurants. Prices are higher than on the street (about 100THB dinner per person) but at least it does not feel the smell of old oil. What about the health, you will know when you'll get another journal written in the toilet :-)

After dinner, we bought a prepaid SIM card "One Two Call" (770THB) - the card is cool - make it in the card you got 360 minutes free internet connection via GPRS.

Thailand/Cambodia - first travel - part 1

(Please note! I'm not speaking well in english so please be patient :)

Twenty-two hours journey passed in no time...
Ha ha, and so seriously that this journey was ordeal. To put it mildly.
Paris aerial view looks good, no matter how much the plane swings during turbulence. At this point, we should get thanks from LOT airline for saving his few disposable bags hidden in the seat pocket.
The truth is that it really was not even what to bring up after a modest meal, how our beloved national carrier gave to us :)
Charles de Gaulle Airport is huge - we drove 30 minutes by bus between the terminals before we got out of the terminal 1 to terminal 2A.
Everytime, when the bus stood at the entrance to any of the terminal, the driver behind the wheel rotates and looked at us with hope that we want to leave a bus. And then we call to him: "Deux A". I wonder if he even understood in French.
A little worried about this trip - because I never flew by plane with connecting flights - in this case we had two connecting route, in Paris and in Hong Kong.
After arriving by bus to the terminal 2A, we got to the position of airline and after standing in the queue got all boarding passes.
At this point, once it became clear that our Polish agent did not book our seats on the plane, we got seats in the middle row (sucks!). Around us, as far as you can see, everywhere Asian people. All flight attendants was beautiful and meals on board was great. It was a Cathay Pacific plane.
After several hours of flying and a few meals caught up with us the curse of Pol Pot (popular travel sickness ;) Toilets on Hong Kong airport are awesome - in my opinion.
Airport in Bangkok is the pinnacle of modernity, glass, marble, aluminum ... and there is the forest ... A very much forest. In my country is sentence: "Shall never bring a tree to a forest". My beloved "tree" is sitting by my side in front of computer in local internet cafe and I admire local "trees" strolling down the street.
We flew to the new Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. We did the baht currency exchange (we took American Express traveler's checks). A lot of it was not necessary because in our country we made reservations for most hotels in Thailand (http://www.sawadee.com/) and Cambodia (http://www.directrooms.com/). Also made reservations for local flights (http://www.airasia.com/).
For booking I recommend using prepaid cards (e-cards) - after returning to our country, data of our credit card was leaked and someone bought AirAsia flight ticket from Chiang Mai to Bangkok -
I made "Charge Back" procedure in my bank and cash was returned to me. The only place where our data could leak was: AirAsia, Sawadee.com and directrooms.com. So be carefull.
We come out from the airport and trying to find a taxi stand. At least we see a desk with employees filling receipts for taxi drivers. We give them a voucher to our hotel in Bangkok and they are writing in Thai on the ticket address at which the driver should take us. Quickly they put us to taxi and set off. I am very surprised that it went so smoothly and that there were no any problems - why so naive am I. After driving a few kilometers the driver begins to inquire us about where is our hotel exactly. At this point it makes me a little weak. I'm taking the map of Bangkok and begin to explain to him - but it's hard to get along with because he knows english but rather hearsay.
In case of problems with the taxi driver and finding the hotel I would advise not to wait but immediately turn your mobile phone in a taxi and immediately call the front desk of hotel asking for an explanation route to cabbie.
The fare from the airport to Hotel costs us 400THB (about 13USD) including fees for the highway.
Unpack your luggage, take a shower and we go on tour - is at 1pm local time and in front of us a lot to see. I have jetlag as hell, but we do not know about it yet - we'll find out what it is for just a few hours.