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This was our second visit to Bangkok in a year, as we had flown in and out of Bangkok from China, well Hong Kong, actually, the previous December on our first visit to Thailand. We visited Bangkok on two occasions. First in August on our way from Chiang Mai to eastern Thailand to see the Khmer temples of Phimai, Phnom Rung, and Muang Tam, and second on our way back from Cambodia.

The second visit was perhaps the most notable as we arrived in our hotel just an hour after the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. We were glued horrified to the TV for the next two hours as we watched first one, then the other tower crumble. Who can forget where they were that day?

But thankfully, there are some good memories too, as Gerry's photographs will attest.

Visiting the Royal Palace

More Royal Palace Scenes

The view from our Bangkok Hotel on a stormy night

Fixing Gerry's computer

Our hotel pool

Taking a water taxi

Remnant of Bangkok's city wall

Buddhist monk

Temple roof and cityscape

Roadside restaurant

When we got back from Cambodia to Bangkok, we stayed ten days before heading back to England, just enough time to meet up with Dave and Jhap again as they returned home to Ban Sang after a visit in southern Thailand where they first met. With them we continued our tour of Bangkok, visiting the lovely temple Wat ?? and the Royal Boat Museum among other places. We also sampled some of Bangkok's food offerings enjoying a great buffet that offered Thai, Japanese, and western food.

Dave and Jhap enjoying a Bangkok Buffet

Temple roofscape

Our hotel room

Old Bangkok Building

Dave, Jhap, and Jan in a Bangkok garden

Boat in the Royal Boat Museum