Chrissy Renae

The first stop on the magical vacation of Chrissy and Beenish was BANGKOK, THAILAND. Thailand is a place I’ve wanted to go for at least the past decade (I was a weird 12 year old), so living in Korea and having it be soo cheap to get there is like dream come true. Bangkok is a busy, bustling city with crazy traffic yet a weird lack of stress. Everyone just mozies around and does their thing, and nobody ever seems to be in a huge rush. Our main form of transportation was via Tuk Tuks, which are little carts attached to motorbikes that can take you all around the city for cheap. Bangkok was a good combination of cool touristy stuff, and a really fun time. We saw all the important sites like the Grand Palace, Golden Mount, Reclining Buddha, Angkor Wat-Bangkok version, took a couple river taxis for a nice view of the city, ate piles of Pad Thai (for like $1 off the street carts), got sucked into the tailor shops and I bought some work pants (impossible to find my size in Korea), got sucked into the jewelry shops and Beenish bought some nice (maybe fake?) jewelry, and of course we spent some quality time on Khoasan Road. Khoasan is like a famous backpacker road with a bunch of hotels, restaurants, markets, and street food filled with backpackers from all over the world. It was fun to walk around and meet people and hear crazy stories about what people were up to. We stayed at a hostel called the Lub d’ Bangkok, which was in a random empty neighborhood of the city, but suchhh a nice hostel! It was the cleanest hostel I’ve ever stayed at, with an in-house restaurant and bar and free internet! Our roommates there were a couple of Canadian guys who just started a backpacking journey around SE Asia, and we all made friends with a bunch of other people in our hostel (from the US, Japan, Amsterdam, the UK, etc…) who all became our little hostel crew. We had a good time exploring the city together, downing buckets on Khoasan, watching a Muay Thai kickboxing match, and just hanging out at our hostel eating delicccious noodles from across the street and exchanging stories.