One Night in Bangkok

My roommate Charly, my friend Natasha, and I began our 12 day vacation in Thailand with a 3 hour delay of our flight, so instead of sitting on a plane for 5 hours we were on the plane for 8 waiting for a space to open up for us on the runway. But we arrived in Bangkok at 9:30pm and got to our hostel shortly after and sharing a cab with a woman from Spain. Our hostel was conveniently located along a very famous night street in Bangkok called Khaosan Road and we spent no time dropping our backpacks at the hostel and heading to the road!

Khaosan is a street about 3 blocks long completely closed off to cars and lined with carts of street food, vendors selling everything from henna tattoos to shirts to artwork, and bars. An interesting part of the road for me was finding out that, unlike the homogenous society of China which I've been so familiar with, Thailand has a very large population of international tourists so when we went out we were able to hangout and talk with almost everyone we met; a nice change of pace from trying to use the little Chinese I know in order I communicate with everyone. So we ended up hanging out with a girl from Canada (Alex), 2 Australian guys, and a British guy for the rest of the night.

The night was full of exploring the nightlife in Bangkok! We went to a few bars as a group, met lots of fun new people, and overall had a great night. One of the highlights wadecided a few of us decided that we were going to eat bugs! Charly and i had wanted to try them the first time we had seen the art but figured it was weird if we were to just go up and order some, so when we found out that one of the australian boys, Talus, was wanting to try them as well, it gave us the perfect excuse to go order our bizaar snack and bond with a new friend! One of the street vendors sold a wide variety of creepy crawlies and charly and I decided to share a fried giant cockroach and each have a fried silk work and fried grasshopper. The giant cockroach was way to large and the wings were hard to chew so that was quite unpleasant, but the other two were just greedy and crunchy and honestly not as bad as you'd think!

The night was filled with activity and hanging out with our fellow back packing buddies and turned out to be a great "One Night In Bangkok"! And besides one minor ballroom dancing incident in which I may have lost my entire big toe nail... The night was perfect!

<--- The menu cover of the first bar we went to on Koh San Road haha!!!