Bike Ride through the Bangkok Jungle

Having both visited Thailand before, Steven and I decided to forgo the traditional Bangkok sights and do a little off-the-beaten path sight-seeing. Our first afternoon, we took a bike trip to the "Bangkok Jungle," a separate province just across the river from Bangkok, where the development is limited to preserve the natural state of the area. The first part of the tour took us through a few neighborhoods and backstreets of Bangkok which looked very similar to the narrow residential alleys of HCMC and was quite an interesting window into lower-income urban living. Unfortunately, I didn't stop to take many pictures of the narrow alleys and tiny markets we rode through, not wanting to offend anyone. After a brief stop at a temple along the river, we crossed the river via a long-tail boat and spent the next hour and a half riding through the peaceful trails of the "Bangkok Jungle."