Heinz and I are sorting out -well, speeding up the process- of sorting out all the photos from our South East Asia trip.
Even though I shared a little along the way I skipped some places. My goal is to share them before the year ends so I can work on a biiiiiig 2013 year recap.
After Cambodia we flew to Bangkok where we spent one week. While we were there we decided to skip Myanmar, which was in our original plan, and stay in Thailand a little bit longer and then finally head to Bali.
One week in Bangkok was not enough. We could have easily -and I mean EASILY- stayed way longer. It is such a cool city! filled with awesome street food, cute little shops and out-of-this-world patterns and textures.
I have to say my personal highlight was the Royal Palace. Even though it's a very touristy place (tons of people) I couldn't help but feel inspired by every single detail. Every wall, corner, entrance, exit, floor, ceiling...it was all so thoughtfully decorated. The mix of colors and shapes...it made me feel like I was in, well, Thailand.
The admission fee to the Royal Palace also includes the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles. The Museum exhibits the history of Thailand's traditional dress, textile production and a collection of the Queen's most iconic dresses.
This is a story of preserving their unique textile cultural heritage as means of local development.
That's the short story anyways, for the longer version I really encourage anyone to visit it.
Here are some pictures of the Royal Palace, there were no pictures allowed inside the Museum of Textiles.
Heinz was kind enough to put together a very short film of the rest of Bangkok.
Next up...Koh Samui.