Vibrant Bangkok: A Travel Guide

Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, is a vibrant, exuberant city with an infectious joie de vivre. Cosmopolitan, glitzy and glamorous, Bangkok represents the modern face of Asia with an overhead web of flyovers, bumper to bumper traffic, flashing neon lights & glittering malls packed with shoppers. Bangkok is a city always on the move - but step around the corner and you catch a glimpse of the old Siam with it’s beautiful, ornate palaces and temples, its quiet back streets and residential areas with large sprawling houses in beautifully laid out gardens, it’s Buddhist shrines with white silk scarves billowing in the gentle breeze. And in the midst of all this flows the Chao Phraya River, both a lifeline and a lifestyle teeming with activity in its numerous klongs.  Everything contributes to the distinct personality of Bangkok- very Eastern and yet Western enough to hold its own in a world where `modern’ is equated with `western’. Bangkok epitomises all that is `Thai’- rich, hospitable, beautiful, colourful, noisy- and very interesting.