After the overnight train, we arrived at Bangkok very early in the morning, although got woken up on the train around 5am by women patrolling the carriages selling stuff - very annoying. After dumping all our things at the hotel we had a narrowboat ride around Bangkok's canals. The boats were very narrow as the name implies and we heard that someone had gotten very ill after water from the canals splashed in their mouth, which made us all paranoid the whole journey.
We saw lots of sights from the narrowboat, including the grand place (above), which I'm going to go visit when I get back to Bangkok the second time. After the boat trip we went to Wat Pho, the temple of the reclining Buddha, which was extremely ornate.
The rest of the day and most of the next day was spent perusing the many markets. We went to the weekend market, which is meant to have over 1,500 stalls and was insanely busy. We were also lucky enough to be staying very close to Khao San Road in Chinatown, which is a pretty lively area, especially at night.
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