Imagine a botanist standing on the outside of a large field. Apparently, in this field, there is a really cool plant that is worth seeing. The botanist, interested in seeing the plant, wanders into the tall grasses of the field. What he cannot see is all of the burrs, stinging nettles, and brambles underfoot that tug and sting and scrape at them every step of the way. It isn't really clear where this amazing plant is, and maybe he finds it, maybe not. Exasperated either way, he leaves the field, and as it turns out all of the burrs and thorny plants stuck on him also sting as they are removed. At this point, he is wondering why he even entered the field in the first place, perhaps even questioning why he wanted to be a botanist at all. This is Bangkok.
The place stressed me out to the max. Seems to me to be a city full of really unhelpful people who want tourist money. I just never felt welcome at all. On top of that, we found out on arrival in Bangkok that the Egyptian economy was collapsing and that people were taking to the streets. Amanda and I had both been looking foward to our time in Egypt, and to find out at the last minute that it would not be possible to visit there was not particularly welcome news.
I'm stll pretty angry and disappointed with our time in Bangkok, and to dwell on it any more is a bit of a waste. Needless to say, I hope to never see that city again.
While we were saddened to lose Egypt as a destination on our trip, our relatively flexible plans allowed us to shuffle things around just a little bit. After spending nearly a day with the mostly worthless Thai employees of Kuwait Airways, we were able to get them to change our tickets from Cairo to Amman and we ended up with more time in Jordan than previously expected.
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