Bangkok Voted Best City in the World by Travel Leisure Magazine

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For the first time ever, Bangkok has just been voted the world'sbest city in a travel poll by Travel + Leisure magazine. As someone who haslived in Bangkok for five years and who loves Bangkok, I must say Iam very proud. Many people in Bangkok complain about the trafficand the pollution (both of which are bad) but, overall, the positives in Bangkokfar, far outweigh the negatives and I have to agree with the peoplewho took the Travel + Leisure magazine poll - Bangkok is theworld's best city. It's also unlike any other.

When you first get off the plane in Bangkok, what you notice is theheat. It's hotter than anywhere you've ever been and literallyrises up to meet you and enclose you in it's damp heaviness. Thenext thing you'll experience are the smells. Grime coatedpollution, mixed with jasmine flowers and the scent of food cooking everywhere - the first few days you'll be nauseated by it then, asyour body becomes used to the smell, you'll wonder how you ever livedwithout it.

Bangkok is the city that never sleeps. You can get food at any time of the day or night, street vendors ply their waresfrom early morning till late at night, ladies of the night are outat night (and often in the morning too!), and so are the elephantswho are brought into the city by their owners to beg for money from the tourists. It's all here in Bangkok - mega malls, brandname shops, fake brand name clothes, enormous movie theatres, tiny neighborhood temples, orange robe clad monkswandering the streets for alms, lazy soi dogs sleeping, tuk tuks chugging by, and gorgeous Thai girls manicuredto perfection.