{"id":1283,"date":"2010-07-29T22:38:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2010-07-29T22:38:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:08:24","slug":"amazing-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2010\/07\/amazing-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Thailand!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of visiting Thailand on four earlier occassions, some work and some vacation.\u00a0 And, it was for a business partner meet that I visited the cities of Bangkok and Pattaya, this July.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what happened next&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Checked in at a lovely sea-side hotel in Pattaya<br \/>\nHeaded for the Pattaya Tower observatory<br \/>\nShopped till I dropped!<br \/>\nFish Spa pedicure in the mall<br \/>\nMuch-needed foot massage<br \/>\nMore shopping!<br \/>\nAn awesome traditional Thai massage experience<br \/>\nBusiness conference and Gala night dinner<br \/>\nWon an award for excellent business support provided!!!<br \/>\nWalked on Walking Street till 2.30 am<br \/>\nHeaded to Bangkok, stopping at the giant Gems Gallery enroute<br \/>\nVisited the magnificent Temple of the Golden Buddha (<em>Wat Traimit<\/em>)<br \/>\nDinner cruise on the Chaophraya river<br \/>\nShot all the glorious temples on both sides of the river, from the boat!<br \/>\nQuick trip to another Thai temple before breakfast<br \/>\n4 hours in the shopping maze of MBK<br \/>\nAnd finally, took the evening flight back to Bombay<\/p>\n<p>What a ride!!!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Photos will be posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/photography\/index.php?x=browse&amp;tag=thailand\" target=\"_blank\">photoblog<\/a>, through July-Aug 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Thailand!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of visiting Thailand on four earlier occassions, some work and some vacation.\u00a0 And, it was for a business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}