Bangkok...again

Kristin and I got back to the city last night. The three day tour was so-so. There were a lot of tourists and we kept getting shuffled around to different groups. The lodging was on floating rafts on the Kwai Noi River. We went on a 30 minute elephant ride in the jungle, spent some time at a tiger temple where monks rescue tigers from people who try to make them pets, swam in a waterfall with water so clear you could see the fish swimming at your feet, and spent a lot of time standing around waiting for the tour guides to shuffle us around to different groups. I'm happy I took a tour because we were able to see more around Bangkok without dealing with traffic logistics. I don't think I'll take any more tours here. There was just too much downtime because of the lack of organization. In all we were in 11 different mini-vans in the course of 3 days.

Tomorrow we are off to Phuket (southern Thailand). We tried to go standby today but their flights were all overbooked.

Hope all's well stateside.