{"id":4146,"date":"2010-01-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2010-01-01T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T23:11:52","slug":"road-back-to-the-holiday-inn-silom-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/road-back-to-the-holiday-inn-silom-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"Road back to the Holiday Inn Silom Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21174703trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21174703trim-553x800.jpg\" alt=\"thai food street market thailand bangkok\" title=\"thai food street market thailand bangkok\" width=\"553\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21174703trim-553x800.jpg 553w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21174703trim-173x250.jpg 173w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21174703trim.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Street food, like the above, was available all over the place. Ellie had a coconut, but we avoided meat that wasn&#8217;t cooked right in front of us. Amazingly enough, none of us got even a little bit sick during the nine days we were in Thailand. We didn&#8217;t drink the water, but we had plenty of ice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181057trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181057trim-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"wat arun temple of dawn\" title=\"wat arun temple of dawn\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181057trim-800x502.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181057trim-250x156.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181057trim.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boat ride back down the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/chao-phraya-river\/>Chao Phraya River<\/a> had better views than the way up as the clouds and sun did a little dance behind Wat Arun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181506trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181506trim-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"chao phraya river bangkok thailand\" title=\"chao phraya river bangkok thailand\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181506trim-800x562.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181506trim-250x175.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21181506trim.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183518trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183518trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"mandarin oriental hotel bangkok thailand\" title=\"mandarin oriental hotel bangkok thailand\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183518trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183518trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183518trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right on the river, near our pier, was the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The place is incredible. The above photo doesn&#8217;t do it justice. It probably didn&#8217;t hurt that we were hot, Bangkok was humid, and the inside was nicely air conditioned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183924trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183924trim-674x800.jpg\" alt=\"thai girls buying soda from street vendor\" title=\"thai girls buying soda from street vendor\" width=\"674\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183924trim-674x800.jpg 674w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183924trim-210x250.jpg 210w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/21183924trim.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further up the street we saw a street vendor making a killing thanks to the nearby school which had just let out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street food, like the above, was available all over the place. Ellie had a coconut, but we avoided meat that wasn&#8217;t cooked right in front of us. Amazingly enough, none of us got even a little bit sick during the nine days we were in Thailand. We didn&#8217;t drink the water, but we had plenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243],"tags":[245,130,102,176,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}