The Randoms

Here's just a small collection of photos from Bangkok. I wouldn't call any of them spectacular but if you've never been out to Thailand, they offer up some of the city's different personalities.
Just another night on Khaosan. I don't think this character was looking for anything more than attention. I don't want to ruin it but having been in this country for a while now, I recognized that his mask was actually made from sticky rice baskets.
These monks were just leaving their wat to go out to the streets and walk for their daily alms.
I went out early in the morning to find some good shots while the rising sun provided perfect lighting over the city but found very little to shoot. Besides the monks, the city hardly wakes up before nine o'clock. The streets were quiet outside Wat Phra Keow other than a single tuk tuk whizzing by.
Bangkok has never been known as a beautiful city. This picture is a case in point. I'd say it's a rather ordinary picture of a ordinary part of the city, just on the edge of Chinatown. The details that make this particularly ordinary are the the grimy bus, the mess of electrical wires, the drab architecture, and the huge portrait of the King and Queen residing over all of it.
Wandering around downtown Bangkok I happened upon a garage where three old men spent their days restoring antique cars. They had only finished a couple and the rest of the large garage was full of fixer-uppers. I believe most were Russian and Italian cars but I couldn't be sure. This was all a bit of a surprise to me because in my 2 years here, I've never seen any older cars on the road.
We're all suckers for neon lights. If no bright lights illuminated this stretch of Chinatown, I nor anyone else would walk down the street looking to grab a bite to eat. These lights were a let down though. I didn't have an appetite for shark fin or bird's nest soup and I found out that, for me, the neon lights only advertised overpriced food.
This isn't an ordinary temple to find in Thailand. Its actually one of the few remnants of the ancient city. I believe it's an old port on the river. That's at least what I picked up from talking to locals.
The most well known bridge in Bangkok, this is also some of the best architecture you'll find in the entire city. Dinner boat cruises go up and down the Chao Phraya every night with this bridge as its destination.