Jackson - My First Week - Bangkok



This is a cake (yum) saying good luck made by Karin at the Plough in Rangiora

This is a cake (yum) saying good luck made by Karin at the

Plough in Rangiora

Jackson - My First Week - Bangkok



I love being next to the river watching the boats going down and seeing all the different buildings. The boats are very different to our boats, the long tail boats have a long thing on the back.



Our first morning in Bangkok



I’m not enjoying the heat because it makes me sweaty and the humidity is making me tired.

The Grand Palace

The Thai people are really nice and always say hello to me.  They even wanted to take a photo of me. I’m not sure why.

The Grand Palace is my favourite thing so far because it’s got lots of gold and lots of Buddha’s which seem very special to the Thai people.

Bangkok has heaps of hotels, most of them are very high and fancy. Like the Sheraton and the Hilton, we stayed in the Sheraton.

Heading to the river market



Millie and I at The Grand Palace



Most of the houses are up on stilts and broken.  I would like to learn more about that some day.

There are two big signs across from our hotel one for Manchester United and one for Chelsea; dad thinks an important game was held here, even though they are European teams.

We haven’t worked out which way the river is flowing, it’s hard to tell. It is next to our hotel, it is very wide and not a braided river, I’m not sure what type of river it is. It is called the Chao Phraya River.

Bangkok has an 8 storey Mall; which is called MBK. MBK stands for Mang Boon Krong. It was boring there but Dad got some suits.

On the first day we were there we went in a pink taxi. It was air conditioned and took a long time.

I got two football jerseys at the Chatuchak market. One Barcelona and one Italy I LOVE them. Mum said I took forever to choose them. Jackson.