It's me: Bangkok Trip

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Bangkok Trip

The ticket was booked in January
It seems that I have to wait so long for the trip as it was in May
but the day has come
Day 1 (21/5)

Arrived at Bangkok City's Khao San Road at about 1pm
walking round and round to look for the guest house that we found on net
couldn't find it...
So at last we have decided to put up a night at a hotel along the road
which is “sightable" to us ( to get rid of the heavy luggage)
before continuing our search for the guest house

Hawker selling some noodle in front of our hotel...cant remember what's the name in Thai... It's not bad

Khao San Road during the night

Breakfast at the hotel

Day 2 (22/5)

We are able to wake up a bit late as it was on our own...
A "tuk tuk" was hired for 200 bhat after our breakfast to take 3 of us round the town for about 6 hours ( the "tuk tuk" do actually waited for us after dropping us at a point) ...
It sounds cheap... as it's only RM20 for 3 for 6 hours yet waiting for you at every spot...
you can take your own sweet time
But later we found out that it cost only about 50 or 60 bhat which is about RM5 or RM6 for the same service

Damn kena con!!!

The first point that the "tuk tuk" driver brought us to was the so called Floating Market
We need to hire a boat in order to get there which cost 3 of us 1800 bhat (RM180)
and to our disappointment it's not the floating market that we normally see in photo or TV
The one that we normally saw was located at a place which took us 2 hours drive to reach there
Damn kena con again!!!

The rest of the spot were OK but the enterence fees is on our own expenses of course...

At the end of the trip ( anyhow he did not finish the journey as promised earlier on), yet we gave him 100 bhat for tips .
Damn, how stupid are we....

Oh ya, and the "tuk tuk" driver loves to bring tourist to the jewellery export centre in order to get some free gasoline for their "tuk tuk"...
It's tiring whenever they say that we need to go to that place...

At the long tail boat

taken this photo in the long tail boat

condition of the river

Wat Arun reachable by long tail boat

Wat Arun

Stairway to Heaven (Wat Arun)

Marble Temple

Some ceremony at the Marble Temple

Day 3 (23/5/08)

After being conned earlier on, we decided to walk to the temples that were left out during the "tuk tuk" ride as it is within walking distance
Depending solely on the tourist map we went to the National Museum which is the largest in South East Asia and Wat Mahathat

Met with a friendly lady from Chiang Mai who claim herself to be a doctor who came for conference over here...
That's when she recommended us to go to the silk centre and the jewellery export centre(again!!!)

Then to the TAT company to ask for the price to the floating market....( actually kena con again ) the only thing that we are smart enough was we decided not to buy the Calypso ticket at the TAT company....
they wanted to sell 800 bhat while we can get it for 450 bhat at place near our guest house

Wanted to go to the Grand Palace but it was closed at 3.30pm.. Damn...

so we went to the Wat Po instead ( sleeping buddha)