Victory Monument Bangsai
're off the bus across from Bangkok Rangsit after Bangsai. We are at the Victory Monument, a bus junction in the middle of Bangkok.
Here comes our bus with the number 59 can already be roars from the Thanon Thai Phaja with screeching brakes and holds a piece of us away an.Knallrot, loud, open all windows and doors and provide new crowd to run aufzunehmen.Wir start of the bus and take part in the competition''who First is in there.''They all want the same one-and , Get big-city bustle, very exciting.
quite a crowd there for the best places and with a little elbow operation we find seats directly above the Radkasten.Wir sit, but with his knees almost under the chin. Well, probably too slow gewesen.Na matter, the ride will take time and we hope to exchange our seats können.Nun starts the journey, the bus winds through the Verkehrscaos Kreisverkehresum of the Victory monument and shoots determined with a high noise level at the exit to Phahon Yothin to, in other buses, the first bus in the street to kommen.Sieg at any price, Busfahrerehre.Da jump the traffic light rot.de bus driver is in full on the brakes and is just now still Stehen.Die for standing passengers to be pulled forward, almost in the horizontal and then to stop the bus thrown back to werden.Fester maintenance is important to keep the legs umauf . Suddenly, if I may, a German bus to mind, totally different world away, light years.
bus number 59 with photo of passengers http://thaitransit.blogspot.com/ continuing to the Saphan Khwai on Thanon Phahon Yothin that runs 30 km north-south direction across Bangkok, one of the main roads. It is a poem to the driver to watch in his work as he takes the course with the extra long levers with wider terms arm movement or purely throws better and parallel nervous spielt.Dann with the gas pedal we go, the course is purely bangs at full throttle, the bus fires forward, into the roaring traffic of every other shift is re-exported from a flying switch arm and then I will really found the image of a German bus driver in the sense that one of zurechtkäme.Ich think probably nicht.Dieses drama takes place at each stop at intersections or stops statt.Na that I will be a fun ride, exciting, and in any case.
bus driver at work photo by http://thaitransit.blogspot.com/
is now also the housekeeper, who has in the overcrowded bus does not, incredibly, lost the overview, We angelangt.Mit its oblong tin can, which serves as the fare and ticket container, it clatters to the cover and calls for payment of the fare paid auf.Wir the price of 8Baht per person for the entire route, that is 17Eurocent converted, it is hard to have glauben.Ich there deep in the back of the head Fares from another Welt.So little we have never bezahlt.Wir for cinema's received a number of Paper tickets dieauf inscrutable manner has been perforated with the metal lid of the can and only vonSchaffnerin and hopefully by the inspector detected werden.Endlich we could change our seats after our legs just before falling asleep and the back are not negligible schmerzt.Toll, we have some get right next to the driver and front directly on to large durchdie Panoramascheibe.Es is almost as if we were sitting right in Verkehr.Besser it is hard to beat, the Driver is observed excellent, the road goes full imBlick and through the open side window is life on the road verfolgen.Nun it below the Skytrain to the Thanon Phahon Yothin past the StadteilenSanam Pao, Ari, Sena chat room, Saphan Kwai to Mochit , there is the famous Chatuchak Weekend Market.
Thanon Saphan Kwai Phahon Yothin photo of http://thaitransit.blogspot.com/
The bus roars with breathtaking speed through the suburbs, one has to bother to type sights add to können.Interessant are the incoming and outgoing passengers, a Cross-section of the Thai Gesellschaft.Es found students, students, workers, soldiers, traders, civil servants and even bankers ein.Oft dealers get their goods into the bus, as it is already 'the times before the goods are carried in one's legs pecks, namely chickens in wicker Körben.Selbst the bus can not the Thais from their''Sucht''dem or loud Telefonieren.Egal how full it is to make phone calls and calls to the mobile phone glüht.Sehr amusing to watch how the passengers in find all possible positions of sleep, the head of a passenger's funny when on the shoulder of another passenger's ruht.Chatuchak a great transportation hub, there are underground, skytrain Chatuchak undunzählige bus zusammen.Von's go to the big shopping mall Central Lad Prao, in the same district, past the university Kasetsat.Am Laksi monument on Thanon Chaeng Watthana in the borough of Bang Khen dieThanon on Vibhavadi Rangsit airport Don Muang Then back to the past ThanonPhahon Yothin stoßen.Kurz then is already the hub Rangsit erreicht.Der bus stops and we get out and are immediately surrounded by hawkers offering alleerdenklichen goods.
Rangsit photo of http://thaitransit.blogspot.com/
We control However, once a soup stand and order a noodle soup, very tasty and proposes to heat necessarily empfehlen.Der price 25Bahtzu book, translated ca.50Eurocent.Noch 'a cola that, and that less than one complete Mittagsmahlliegt Euro.Um us an overview of climb the junction to give us is one of the Fußgängerüberführungen.Es of madness, a spaghetti knots, roads in several floors in between footbridges in various Richtungen.Da is pure living, people everywhere and buses, coaches, and again Busse.Wir have our next bus with the number 383 already discovered, at the corner of Thanon Phahonyothin and Thanon Rangsit Phatum Thani He waits for passengers.
bus number 383 to Bangsai photo of http://thaitransit.blogspot.com/
We walk quickly to the bus 383 and rise quickly and then moves ein.Er gemächlichlos.Wir us all very surprised, no comparison to the bus 59.Kein stress, no Hektik.Man is noticed by a bus fare is 15 land.de Baht.Er runs in a north-westerly direction, and leaves on the Thanon Rangsit Rangsit Phatum Thani . The trip goes through rice fields crisscrossed by drainage channels and sind.Hier dasind even great egrets, kingfishers and water buffalo to sehen.Vorbei to the innumerable Buddhist temples we drive through small villages with quiet markets where goods and people are still transported by bicycle rickshaws.
bicycle rickshaws photo of http://thaitransit.blogspot.com/
There are very many goods are transported on the bus, such as fruits and Gemüse.Da reminds me of a funny story a bus in southern Thailand ein.Wir stopped at a bus stop where a mountain was supported by husked coconuts. Suddenly, several people began the coconuts on the bus to laden.Lose without Behältnisse.Sie came in the middle aisle, under and the seats were stowed on the rear open space at all Einstieg.Nachdem coconuts on the bus, drove the bus and go across the bus Kokosnüssekullerten umher.Dadurch dissolved the brown coir fibers and flew through the wind in the air and stayed on Busdurch our sweaty skin were kleben.Wir of obenbis braun.Gejuckt below has anständig.Danach it was also the first 'shower angesagt.Na times, as the saying of a schön''Wenn a trip doing what he can''erzählen''Weiter it is now a flood plain of the derThailänder by the mother river, the Menam Chao Phraya was pronounced.
Menam Chao Phraja photo of http://pivatana.blogspot.com/
There appeared before us even the Bangsai Arts and Crafts Center with its beautiful Bushaltestelleauf.Sehr, right on the river gelegen.Wir leave the bus with impressions of a very interesting and fun ride that will stick in our memory.
Here's the address:
Bangsai Arts and Crafts Training Centre of HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand.59 Changyai Moo 4, Bangsai, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya 1 3 2 9 0Thailand Tel: 035366252-4, 035 283 246-9Admissionfees: 100 baht adults and children 50 baht Opened Daily: Mon-Sun. 8:30 to 17:00 pm. http://www.bangsaiarts.com/
Route Bus Nummer 59 :Rangsit ,Phahon Yothin Rd., Wiphawadi Rangsit Rd., Don Muang Airport, Lak Si , ChaengWatthana Rd., Bangkhen Monument, Phahon Yothin Rd., KasetsatUni., Central Lat Phrao, Chatuchak Weekend Market ,Sapankuai, Victory Monument , Phaya Thai Rd., Phetcha Buri Rd., Yommarat Intersection ,Larn LuangRd., Phan Fa Bridge, Ratchadamnoen Klang Rd., Democracy Monument , Ratchadamnoen Nai Rd., Rachini Rd., Na Phra Tart Rd., Sanamluang
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