Day 22: Asiatique and Bangkok Water Market

Our little sleeping beauty, tuckered out after a long day of traveling.

Our first dinner in Thailand...amazing! 

A vegetable vendor at Taling Chang

This lovely Thai woman insisted on buying some bananas and sharing them with Lucy.  Thai people are obsessed with Lucy's blue eyes and blondish hair.  They're always reaching out and touching her and giving her hugs.  Asians tourists have been asking to take pictures with her!

Sam buying some limes out of a boat.

Boat buddies

We had the most incredible dinner our first night in Thailand at Asiatique, a night market where our non-English speaking cab driver dropped us off (Jacob had tried to communicate that we wanted to go to a different night market but luckily this one was great) .  Will and Lucy were exhausted so we were lucky to be seated at a table with comfortable benches.  Lucy slept the entire meal on my lap while we feasted on iced fruit drinks, spring rolls, chicken satay, massaman curry, and duck curry.  After dinner we walked around the market and then floated down the river on a water bus.  We rode the Skyway (above-ground metro) back to our hotel (which took forever because we didn't know what we were doing!) and conked around midnight.

The next morning we had a late start, eating pastries at the hotel, then catching a taxi to Taling Chen, a water market.  This was one of the most incredible experiences I've ever had.  Old Thai women wearing straw hats in their canoes  lined the river, cooking beautiful food in huge woks or on grills.  Delicious smells wafted up from the river as we walked along, feeding ravenous fish, bargaining for Thai trinkets, and tasting a few safe-looking foods.  We found a boat operator and paid 100 baht ($30) to take a ride on a long and skinny motorized, covered boat through the canals of Bangkok. We saw wood plank homes on stilts, a snake, Buddhist temples, old men washing dishes, and boys swimming in the brown, murky water.