Bangkok business & a taste of the Thai countryside

There was a short three-day stint to Bangkok at the end of May for business meetings. It was very nice to meet the colleagues from other offices in the region and get to know them in person. After a long session of topics discussed on a Friday, we had a sightseeing tour organized on Saturday: a morning to Nakhon Pathom in the urban fringe of Bangkok that has quite some rural flair and an afternoon in a local neighborhood at an artist house in a Klong off Chao Praya River. I used the remaining Sunday for shopping and book-hunting and enjoyed Bangkok's convenience with excellent street food, sweet wafers from MBK's food vendors, coffee-to-go from the MRT stations and also some burgers from Mc D and all that one misses in Ho Chi Minh City. A few impressions from the trip below:

boat ride with colleagues on a canal connecting Nakon Pathom and Bangkok

In a lotus pond in Nakon Pathom…

…with one of the framers picking a flower…

…and his colleagues harvesting many more.

visit at an orchid farm

tasting home-made organic crackers

a tractor ride through rice fields

the visit to the artists' house

While posting this I am back from a long vacation in Bali for which impressions will be posted soon…