Thailand: Good Luck for You. - Day 14 (Back to Bangkok - continued)

We went across Bangkok to see Golden Mount temple. Bangkok I think is one of the few capitals where “I live right in the city center” doesn’t sound as such a great thing – once the skyscrapers end, getting back to the parallel world of Bangkok slums can be pretty traumatic.

Golden Mount Temple is a mountain shaped structure with a spiral walkway that brings the visitors to its golden top, the temple itself. On the way up people ring a series of bells suspended on racks and finally strike forcefully a large metal gong with a thick wooden mallet.

Reaching the top one can’t but marvel at arresting 360-degree panorama of the whole old town, an incredible Thai soup of pointed pagoda roofs, shabby huts, trees and faraway skyscraper skyline. I’ll miss this place.

At night a tuk-tuk gave as a refreshing drive through Chinatown and main roads with myriads of shining lights to our favorite bar to crown the day with farewell cocktails and shisha.

It definitely won’t be an ‘adios’, but an ‘HASTA LUEGO’.