17/08/2026
๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ธ๐ผ๐ธ ๐น๐ญ
Whenever I visit a city, I love finding ways to get beyond the main tourist spots and see a little more of local life - and Bangkok was no exception.
We spent an afternoon exploring by bike with a local guide, cycling through tiny alleyways, alongside canals, under highways and over bridges, saying โSawasdee Khaโ to locals as we went. I love seeing cities by bike, especially somewhere as hot and humid as Bangkok โ the breeze definitely beats walking around in the sun!
Of course, there was plenty of food involved too. We stopped at small local restaurants and food stalls along the way, trying everything from chicken soup, curries and noodles to Thai omelettes, mango sticky rice and coconut ice cream. We were told to arrive hungry and they weren't joking!
The next morning brought a completely different experience. We met our guide at a local market at 6am to choose food to offer to the monks, before boarding a small wooden boat and travelling along the canals. We passed local homes, spotted monitor lizards in the water and eventually met monks travelling along the canal in their own boat to offer them the food we'd bought.
Two very different experiences, but both gave us the chance to see a side of Bangkok we might otherwise have missed.
Having a local guide there to share the history, food, traditions and everyday life made it even more memorable.
If you'd like to experience more of the local side of Bangkok on your Thailand trip, I can arrange experiences like these as part of your itinerary. Just get in touch and we can start planning. โ๏ธ
