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| 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. |
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