36 Hours in Bangkok, Thailand | The New York Times

How to spend 36 hours in Bangkok, a modern city with no shortage of tradition and graceful beauty.


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36 Hours in Bangkok, Thailand

[TheRowdyTiger]

I'm really going to miss this place when I go back to america to study.
Maybe I'll come back one day. I really hope I do.

[slabsides]

Can't wait to visit. The food and women look delicious:)

[catecc]

From my two trips to Bangkok, I learned and found that the street food is quite clean and safe. The hot peppers help keep the bacteria at bay, I would guess. And, yes, it is excellent. You'll experience sights, sounds and tastes you'll never forget! Don't drink any tap water, however.

[tGwCucumber]

yeahh let's come to bkk, it's summer here!

[bicround]

I believe you!! Lucky I was born in America!!!

[ckywoo]

Song from 0:01 - 0:25 and 0:33 - 0:55 is from Back-On - Flower

[olefella]

36 hrs will be a bit hash-hash for big dynamic city like Bangkok, if not impossible.
I stayed there for a week, but next time it will be two weeks!

[dentqueencmu]

you can get clean water bottle in shops, it's clean and inexpensive. just do not drink water from tap but you can use tap water showering bathing or brushing your body just dont drink it. have fun if you come to Thailand :)

[Gilgamesh]

You do realize that most of the country still lives in poverty, right? It's on the up and up but be glad that you weren't born there. Visiting is great and I'd love to visit.

[Gilgamesh]

okay. that sentence made no sense. but, regardless, thailand is considered a developing country for a reason - it has a growing middle class and a robust economy, bolstered primarily by tech investment (it is home to manufacturing plants for many electronics giants). never the less, most of the country are still pretty poor. i'm from china and it's amazing to see beautiful skyrise parks next to a sprawling shantytown home to workers from the country.

[TheRowdyTiger]

Have you been here to thailand before? Lived here? Ive lived and studied here for three years.
Your comments seem very snobby and maybe even detached. It seems like you're implying China ISN'T a developing country with its own social inequality problems?
I've never been to china (one day!) and I don't know if there are shanty towns in Beijing or Shanghai BUT I do know that many fabulous high rises in those cities are built by rural workers from poor areas. Whats your point? Its very common.

[thaimedicalvacation]

36 hours may not be long enough =( we always suggest atleast 48 to 72 hours in the city of Angels =)

[Gilgamesh]

Huh, you may have studied there but you didn't get any reading comprehension did you? My illustration with China was contrasting the extreme wealth with extreme poverty and that the two live side by side. While this wealth gap is present in all countries (China is no exception which, if you had only read carefully instead of reacted), it's more present in developing countries due to their rapid economic development.

[bicround]

I can't see eating anything cooked in the streets....I did China and could only eat in the nice restaurants...i still got sick one night in Bejing...Thailand is way down the list to

[TheRowdyTiger]

You never said that directly and as I said before your words aren't clear. It seemed like you were saying that china isn't a developing country (it is). Don't get mad at me for your bad phrasing.

[bicround]

I have been to China and the pollution is bad...But the history was could not pay me to go to the swamp land of