the mode of transit in... BANGKOK

in the middle of september, i made a one-week trip to bangkok for my short summer holidays. the primary aim was to experiment something really energetic and chaotic, and it was super easily achieved. annoying tuktuk driver deceived me, annoying tourist information deceived me, annoying shop keepers deceived me, and i was obviously not ready for that sort of chaos. but besides that, everything was great. even such annoying experience wasnt that bad for me. anyways, there were so many things interested me so i start from the mode of transit (again).

first of all, this city has a great variety of transport modes, such as (annoying) tuktuk, (scary) bike taxi (that i didnt challenge), taxi, boat, bus, metro, and train. it seems that many locals use bus but it was nearly impossible to use if properly for me as i didnt understand the writings. but the system was rather funny. old bus without air-con is cheaper than new bus with air-con. i tried both but the old one was much fun.

tuktuk seemed to be a rather convenient node of transport, but the drivers are just sooooo annoying. the worst thing is that they look actually nice and friendly!!! nways, next time i go to bangkok or any cities with tuktuk culture, i will surely give a hard revenge on them:P

the Chao Phraya river is a big element of the city, and therefore the boat culture seemed well. the boat fair was quite cheap and therefore it seemed to be a daily use of locals. 

and the most modern modes of transport were metro and train network. it seemed that metro was the same package as that in taipei. and the train was really cool. they were like "underground" and "overground" as metro runs underground, and trains run over-ground. both of them were really convenient as the traffic jam is always a headache of bangkok yet it cannot bother them. the biggest problem is, however, its not so convenient to go to either metro or train stations. 

so, in the end, as i was too coward to use bike taxi and hated tuktuk drivers, rivers were not on my way, and either metro/train stations were in walking distance, i had to rely on the use of taxi. i usually dont like taxi, but in this city taxi is the best way to move around. taxi fair is super cheap in this city, and no drivers tried to ripoff from me (the biggest asset)!!! yet it was funny that i had to ask drivers if they could take me to where i wanted to go before i used them, because, according to my friends living there, they dont like traffic jam!!! lol  so probably, many taxi drivers prefer to use trains and metros to their own taxi for their transportation:P  funny contradiction ne!!