We decided to save time and fly north from Phuket to Bangkok. Arrived late the first night so only really had one full day in Thailand's capital. We set out early via the monorail and ferry to the Grand Palace. Amazing detailing and amount of gold on these buildings/statues. We did come across a nice man in a suit who tried to tell us the palace was closed for the morning and to visit all these other locations for basically free. Lucky we had read about similar scams in the lonely planet and were wise enough to keep walking to the main gate where we had no problem walking straight in!
From the Grand Palace we stopped in at Jim Thompson's house (silk guru who was originally an american architect) before window shopping at some of Bangkok's more upmarket shopping centres. The real shopping however was done at the night markets where we made sure our bags were full for the trip to London. After a full day walking around, we were obliged to get our last Thai foot massage at the end of the night.
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