Today I went for a stroll around the moat. Each side is roughly a kilometer so with checking out wats, street vendors, and some stuff on Groovy Maps I figured it would take me about two or three hours. Also I had zero cash on me so I needed to pull money out of an ATM too. (For the record though if you have a VISA card you can go to a Kasikorn Bank and take out money for a $5 fee as opposed to $6.50 from an ATM).
The outside of the city was really beautiful and there are plenty of wats to check out on both sides of the moat. The opposite side of where I'm staying is far less tourist-y. Peddlers, mechanics, and boarded up store fronts dominate the scene. Once I got to the North side of the city it started to fill up with more clothing stores, restaurants, trip advisers and motorbikes jammed side by side along the curb. It's a very unique and beautiful city and isn't intimidating despite the illegible serif font all over the place. The pace is very good, I could totally live here, eating 40 Baht lunches and dinners along the side of the road is something you don't get in Korea.
Here are my favorite pictures from the walk.
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| One shot of the moat. |
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| Part of the old city wall |
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| Fire station |
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| More of the city wall. |
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| Why isn't this in America? |
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| One of the many wats along the way. |
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| Some statues marking a gate to a wat. |
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| Thais love elephants. |
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