Destinations we love

Thailand — the country after Vietnam.

Bangkok on a bright January day: the Grand Palace, then Wat Arun. Same winter as the Vietnam trip. Its own page, because it is a different country.

Bangkok, walked

Gold roofs on a European hall, then a temple you look up at until your neck gives in.

We did not try to see the whole kingdom. We did the two places everyone sends you first — and they earned it.

The Grand Palace is the postcard that is also the real building. Wat Arun is the one you feel in your calves. Vietnam is family. This was the next country on the itinerary, and it stays on its own page.

Chakri Maha Prasat at the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thai roofs on a European hall
From the camera roll

Bangkok as we actually saw it.

The palace lawn, the porcelain, a gong, a Buddha in a red hall. The day as it looked from where we stood.

Wat Arun's central prang seen from the courtyard in Bangkok
Wat Arun. The Temple of Dawn, in the middle of the afternoon.
A porcelain-inlaid pavilion and round topiary at Wat Arun
Porcelain on every surface. The topiary is a perfect sphere on purpose.
A large black and gold temple gong in a Bangkok wat
The gong. Black, gold, and bigger than it looks until you stand next to it.
Golden Buddha on an ornate altar in the ordination hall at Wat Arun
Inside. Gold, a yellow sash, and a red ceiling with stars.
Gold temple gable and a golden chedi at the Grand Palace in Bangkok
The Grand Palace, looking up. The sun was not shy.
Two porcelain-covered prangs of Wat Arun against a pale blue sky
The prangs. You feel them in your neck before you feel them in the photo.
Places we went

Not a bucket list. The actual stops.

This page is Bangkok as we shot it. Islands and the north wait until we have the pictures.

The palace

The Grand Palace

Thai roofs on a European hall, topiary like punctuation, and a lawn you are not supposed to cut across. We didn't.

The temple

Wat Arun

Porcelain flowers, a gong, stairs that mean it. The Temple of Dawn, visited in hard daylight, and still the one we talk about.

The city

Bangkok

The frame for those two. Heat, a bright sky, and the feeling that one day is not enough — which is the honest review.

From the trip

The stills, and the clips that live on Instagram.

The photographs sit here. The moving footage is on Instagram, where we posted it first.

Wat Arun prang with yaksha guardian figures on the lower tier Watch Thailand

The prang

Guardians holding up the next storey. Opens the Thailand clips on our Instagram.

The Grand Palace seen through spherical topiary on the lawn Watch Bangkok

The palace lawn

The building through the topiary. Same Instagram set.

Hotels & tourism boards in Thailand — hello.

If your property genuinely welcomes families, we would love to show what that looks like.

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