There are so many faces of Bangkok. For us, the first one we saw, it was the busy, crowded, crazy one. I was literally going insane because of the traffic. It took us up to one week to get along with it and understand how it works.

But the transit infrastructure is unbelievable. Maybe Los Angeles has the widest freeways. Maybe Berlin has the most efficient rail system. And maybe Amsterdam has the best canal system in the world. But none of them combines them together like Bangkok does it.

First picture: mototaxi; second and third: auto rickshaw (note clutch is left peddal and gear shifter is in between the driver’s legs). Third and fourth: the canals.

Note in the sixth picture how people are lined up for boarding. There are marks on the ground showing directions, so that people disembarking won’t bump into people waiting to get in.

[Subway pictures yet to come]