Copyright (C) 2007 by F. Scott Sinclair. All Rights Reserved. To enlarge the photo, click your mouse on the picture.
Thailand, especially Bangkok (the Venice of the East), has so many treasures just sitting outside the front door of your hotel. Visitors are urged to linger around the canals that permeate Bangkok's residential area, just off the main roads. Watching children dive into the narrow canals seeking shelter from the hot weather, is entertaining. To the right of the lovely Buddhist shrine is where at nighttime, vendors hawk their goods and produce to the local residents. In the morning, banana shaped boats with long propeller shafts and high powered engines pick up passengers and deliver them within walking distance to their places of work. The sound of engines can be heard over the normal traffic congestion of Bangkok proper. But no matter how modern Bangkok has become, the back streets and alleyways of Bangkok are where the smiling and caring folks of the Venice of the East reside. And if you want to know what it's like to live in a big city in Thailand, just turn right or left off a main road, and you'll likely run into a residential area: off the beaten path. That's where you'll really see how the Thais live. So, if you're in the mood to see Thailand from the inside out, dump the tour guide, and/or sightseeing bus, and see Thailand firsthand via the back streets during the daytime (never at night--safety first). You might get a glimpse of the Unseen Thailand everyone talks about, fostering some fond memories (and pictures) in the process. Always travel with friends or acquaintances when traveling in Bangkok, or anywhere else in the world. That's just common sense. I took the above picture with a Pentax K10D.
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