one night in Bangkok

Well our second night in Bangkok really, but hey I could not resist !
Its busy busy busy here a city full of tuk tuk s motorcycles, a driver's fercund mass of humanity mixed with plants and animals of all kinds. We arrived late last night to the dodgyest guest house in priority ! Walk up far too early - those who know me well will think this an impossibility- but no one gets up until 10 am on a Sunday - so I had difficulty finding a coffee this morning - finally convincing some street seller to give me his ice coffee mix (hot) in a pure form with some sugar ! (strong but sweet !)
Any how walked down to the green Buddha temple but Sunday is sacred day - all the monks are praying so -no go , We got hussled into going on a tuk tuk tour - which was at first fun , like a big roller coaster ride around the city, we got taken to several buddas , the black Buddha the standing Buddha -etc . The standing Buddha was pretty amazing - huge. We got some flowers and placed them at a pretty statue of kwan yin . Bear bought some birds in a cage which we let go to "bring luck" The temple is full of tiny stray cats - they are everywhere.
Then we got taken to a tailor, several touristy shops with big price jewelry , silk etc ...............
we kept asking the driver to take us to the sky train , but he was pretty smooth , ust one more head say , ok but then the sky train..... But always just one more , around 2 ish we were feeling like were were being railroaded, another silk shop and no thanks we just left by the back exit and payed the tuk tuk driver and said no more - we are walking.
So we are in the middle of Bangkok on foot , tired we go in a mall buy a map and some food, a towel (we didn't bring one) and work out how to get back to the hostel.
we got back in one piece - we really were not that far away I'm pretty sure the tuk tuk driver had been going round in circles!
The area we are in is china town / little India so we headed into the fabric market, the Indian section - bellydancer heaven .

I found a karli shop !!!! Some great statues -we bought a cd , I want the whole shop but hey - this is the first day so I limited myself to a CD and a big batik of her - she will be traveling with me in more than just my heart!
Word to the wise when staying in budjet accommodation in Bangkok bring your own loo paper (I'm glad we did )