This is Bangkok
Bangkok is excess in all of its unrestrained glory.
Bigger,better,more:the city is insatiabel and a monster that feeds on concrete,shopping malls and diesel exhaust.
The Bangkok city demands that you be in the present and in the moment'notnecessarily for a religioud sanuk epiphany,but because the city is self-absorbedand superfical. blissfully free of wrinkle-inducing self - reflection. smilles.and sanuk (the Thai word for'fun') are the key passports into Bangkoksociety.A compliment hear ,a joke there-the demands of social lubrication in this megalopolis aremore akin to a small village than an anonymous city and a necessity for survival.As Bangkok for cefully kneads out of you all cemands for order and predictability,you 'll understand the famous thai smile.It is the meta-phorical brakes on the urban overdrive.Packed into these concrete corridors are religious spectacle,unapopogetic consumerism and multi flavoured hedonism-corrupting and purifying souls sithin footste ofeach other . Bangkok a tragicomic confluence of human desires and as pirations best viewed through a detached smile.Of the famous and infamous attractions,Bangkok's best feature is its intermingling of opposites.A modern world of affluen simple acts of kindneddce orbits around a serene traditional core.Step outside the four-star hotels into a typical Siamese village where taxi drivers knock bacj energy drinks andupcountry transplants grill chicken on a streetside barbecue.Hop the sktrain to the glitzy shopping malls where turst-fund babies examine luxury brands as carefully as the housewivesinspect produce at the open-air markets . Or appreciate the attempls at enlightenment at the
Bangkok city's famous temples ,doorstep shrines,or simple acts of kindness amid the urban bustle,You can jump between all of these worlds-wining and hobnobbing at a chic club,eating at a streetside market,geting plucked and pum melled into something more beautiful,or sweatingprotusely on a long unplanned march.Bangkok is an urban connoiddeur 's deram come true. Bangkok
