Obon holiday Vacation (part 1)

This last week I was lucky enough to be able to go on a 11 day trip to Thailand for Obon holiday because my wife and I had the week off of work. We spent the first two nights in the city of Bangkok at a guest house, located in the middle of a bunch of machine shops, with wild dogs running all around.






My first feeling about Bangkok was that it was polluted and a little smelly but, after spending some time in the city we were able to see that there were many beautiful temples and very nice people to meet. Also, we ate street food everyday and it was so delicious, not to mention cheap! For two people to eat three meals, the cost was about 900 yen! The shopping was also pretty cheap but every price had to be negotiated, which became tiresome after awhile. We stayed on the island of Phuket for the next four nights then came back to Bangkok for our last two.