Goodbye City of Angels The Big Mango

At the Chern hostel the night before I left I booked a taxi ride to the airport. It was 400 baht. My flight was leaving around 8am so I was ready to leave at 4am. It was dark and cold and a bit confusing to explain that I was going to Seoul rather than back [...]

Wat Saket The Temple of the Golden Mountวัดสระเกศราชวรมหาวิหาร

344 shuffling steps, monks, a stupa and a history of vultures eating the dead is the Golden Mount. Since the weather was cool and along my way back to the Chern Hostel I stopped by the Golden Mount. I was expecting it to be a long hike to the top, but it was more of gentle ascent [...]

Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market

Bankok has a market for everything it feels like. Flower markets, night markets, flashlight markets, weekend markets and even floating markets. On the morning of my first day in Thailand I tried to sit and plan things I wanted to do. I wanted to do day tours and little trips but I was worried about [...]

Brown Sugar Jazz Boutique

I visited Brown Sugar because I was drawn to the idea of live jazz and missing the wonderful jazz bars I went to in Prague. So I mentioned it to one of my hostel mates and we headed out, early, in the hopes of getting good seats and being able to get dinner before it got packed [...]

Rancha Tearoom ร้านชา

In Bangkok I used a couple different apps to get around, where to eat and what to do. Google maps on my phone worked wonderfully. As long as when I was in wifi I had typed in the destination all I had to do was follow the route offline with my little blue dot, or [...]