The streets are lined with buildings that look as though they ought to be condemned.
Street traders fry fish, chicken, insects and frogs as the many delapidated vehicles that pass spew out their noxous fumes.
Stray dogs and feral cats roam the streets, considering whether or not to beg for food, or perhaps attack, whilst tuk tuk drivers conspire to take you for All you've got.
Don't be distracted though, or you'll trip down a sewer, be electricuted by a live wire dangling at head height from a pylon, or skewered on a jagged piece of metal protruding from the ground. An architect's long forgotten unfinished project, no doubt.
This place is dangerous.
But I love it!
At first it was scary, but I faced it. The reward was the enjoyment of seeing a forty metre tall Budha. Loads of shrines and temples of all kinds. Crazy architecture, and hectic bustling markets.
I rode a crowded river bus in the foul smelling waters, and saw the same fish which are fried at the roadside in their natural habitat...Nasty. I also saw a Muay Thai fight.
The sights, the smells, the noise, the heat and the emotions. It's sensory overload like I've never experienced before.
This is travelling as it should be!
