Melissa and Carson's RTW Journey

Our flight from Hanoi was a quick two hours and we landed in the larger and newer of Bangkok's two airports (BKK). We were excited to be back in Thailand and excited to explore Bangkok. Most travelers in Southeast Asia start their journeys here, so it was kind of funny that we had been in the region for over three months and hadn't visited yet. We grabbed our bags and headed to the train station where we purchased a token and boarded the train into the city to find our hostel. As we looked out the window of the train, we had a serious moment of shock seeing how clear and blue the skies were. We knew that there was a lot of air pollution in Vietnam, but we had gotten so accustomed to it that we hadn't realized how long it had been since we had seen a true blue sky. We got off the train and walked the rest of the way to our hostel which was located on the southwestern edge of the Siam neighborhood which made it a short walk to Chinatown and a short train ride to Old Town. We ...