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**exschke** · 09-21-2012, 09:46 PM

first impression? the absolute chaos in Bangkok that nothing or nobody can prepare you for.

all the people I have had the chance to accompany on their travels wanted to turn back immediately after leaving the terminal building at Don Muang. the reason? the polluted hot air is stuck under the elevated tollway, and you get a heat stroke / coughing fit / lungs poisoning by the time you get a taxi in the taxi line or your airport bus appears.

my brother asked me about all those Thai flags in the taxi on the way from Don Muang to Mo Chit. (I wanted to get him out of Bangkok immediately.) like, whether it was a national holiday or what. we don't have flags everywhere on normal weekdays back home. that was the first thing he spotted and remarked that people must indeed be very proud to be Thai if they have hundreds of flags everywhere.

09-21-2012, 09:46 PM	#14
exschke Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 546 Senior Member	first impression? the absolute chaos in Bangkok that nothing or nobody can prepare you for. all the people I have had the chance to accompany on their travels wanted to turn back immediately after leaving the terminal building at Don Muang. the reason? the polluted hot air is stuck under the elevated tollway, and you get a heat stroke / coughing fit / lungs poisoning by the time you get a taxi in the taxi line or your airport bus appears. my brother asked me about all those Thai flags in the taxi on the way from Don Muang to Mo Chit. (I wanted to get him out of Bangkok immediately.) like, whether it was a national holiday or what. we don't have flags everywhere on normal weekdays back home. that was the first thing he spotted and remarked that people must indeed be very proud to be Thai if they have hundreds of flags everywhere.
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