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Bangkok is an international hub with a big focus on the commercial. Street food is on sale on every corner and although this can produce a lot of rubbish, it was fascinating to see the binmen sorting through it for recycling on the street. As we briefly wandered around there were far more tourists visible than locals. The heat in the middle of the day was pretty intense, up to 35 degrees so we didn't really explore much. Instead we did some organisation of both onward travel and our lives (which mainly consists of laundry). We did manage to attend a church service, where the congregation were saying goodbye to four families, all of whom were refugees moving to different cities in Canada.
We are still accustomising to the Buddhist culture, practised by 94% of the population here. Shrines to Buddha are common accompanied by symbolic statues (buddhas, dogs, serpents, elephants) as many believe in good and bad spirits. The amount of gold and iconography reminded us of both Russian Orthodox and Catholic traditions, and sure enough we also found a number of shops selling sculptures.
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