If you can't find it, you haven't looked. This weekend market is massive and you can pretty much find anything under the sun; chopsticks, antiques, wannabe-antiques, trendy fashion, fluffy pets, not-so-fluffy animals, and food in any shape and taste. It probably takes more than a single weekend to get trough it all, for there are about 15.000 stalls. Just keep your wallet close.

Most people associate Bangkok with crowded floating markets with boats heavy loaded with fruits in any color of the rainbow along the many canals. Bangkok does still have canals, but the authentic floating markets are something of the past. Today you can instead visit some sad recreation outside Bangkok, where Damnoen Saduak is the most popular one. Here the cargo of the boats have been replaced with tourists in any color of the rainbow and the shore are lined with tacky shops selling the same crappy souvenirs. It is fun to see the Thailand tourist machine in full action, but if you are looking for a trip through some canals, it is better to rent a long-tail boat in Bangkok, markets or not.

Khao San Road is not a place, it is an experience. Previously just a street with dirt cheap hotels to crash while passing through, but now it has morphed itself into something more. A 24/7 backpacker haven covering not just the original street but the whole neighbourhood, offering anything from visas, beers and Indian tailors over fire-dancing equipment, tattoos, and fake designer clothes to Starbucks, teeth bleaching, and cocktail sipping. It is now such a popular party zone that it even attracts the trendy Thai youth. But the toothless old fellow with the hammocks is still walking around. This place is unique.

Somehow Bangkok's strip joints have turn into a tourist attraction for almost everyone, families being the only exception. Skip Patpong (the place for ping-pong-banana shows) and go to the dragon's dent, Nana Plaza. It is the real thing without the sleazy touts and money demanding bouncers and some places actually feature choreographed shows. Some come just for drinking, others want to see what those ladyboys are about (yes they are here too), while others again almost feel obligated to experience Bangkok's nightlife once in their life, and then of course there are also those who consider it their second home. What ever group you belong to, Nana Square will provide in its own calmly chaotic way.

Being 46 meters long and 15 meters tall not only make the reclining Buddha at Wat Pho an impressive sight, but also the biggest Buddha in Thailand. Though only gold plated, and not solid gold, it is still pretty shinny with mother-of-pearl in the eyes and on the soles on his gigantic feet. The Wat Pho itself is the largest wat in Bangkok and is dating back to late 18-century, though the Buddha was first added in the first part of the 19-century. The Wat Pho complex also contains over a thousand other Buddha images, an active monastery and a massage school, for those that are a bit templed-out.