Arriving in Bangkok

Flying over. Thai Airways! 7 hours.



Once you arrive, Thai Airway flight attendants give all the ladies lovely purple Orchid corsages. I grew sick of the color purple since the WHOLE flight over (seats, walls, pillows, blankets, flight attendant outfits) were ALL purple, but it was nice to finally arrive.

NOTE how pale we looked then!

Once you get off the plane you begin to see just HOW loyal Thailand is to their king. He's EVERYWHERE! In the buses like this pic above or on millions of billboards along the highway...and we're talking pictures as tall as buildings!

At our first and only hotel of the trip: The Wild Orchid, a few blocks down from Koh San Road in Bangkok. This was also the last place we were able to take hot/warm showers for the REST OF THE TRIP!!!