Sunday, 6 March 2016

Going thailand - part 7

Day 11 - BKK d3

We were woken up at 6am
The train was supposed to arrive at 0710
But was late and only arrived at 0740
We wanted to get a meter taxi to hotel
But there was a long queue
And we gave in to take a tuktuk for 150bahts to our hotel
Which was near platinum mall and quite far from the train station




We ate the leftover food we bought for the train ride for breakfast
And took a meter taxi to the grand palace
While the taxi illegally turn out from our hotel
He got stopped by the traffic police and received a fine
He told us that it will costs him about 400bahts!!
He didn't asked us to pay or give him extra
But we paid him a little extra when we arrived and hoped it will help.
The ride was about 80bahts (yes we paid double for tuktuk) and we gave him 120bahts

The grand palace was very crowded with tourists
And I was shocked to hear a tour guide saying that it was Considered not too crowded!
It's like taking Mrt during peak hours
And we were shocked that it costs 500baht each for entrance fees!
They are very strict with dress code
That I'm glad we prepared a pants for husband
I guess the highlight was the temple that has an emerald Buddha
Because the other areas were relatively empty










We saw a lady wearing sleeveless dress and went to ask the guard for directions
Probably she took off her shawl because is too hot
I was shocked that the guard kept slapping her arms
And told her to cover up (in Chinese)
And not answered her questions
I think the physical contact was uncalled for
Then we saw a woman being dragged out aggressively from a temple
Oh well, people get cranky under the hot weather I guess
With the weather and crowd, I had to tell husband to leave after 1hr+

Since the famous sleeping Buddha was near,
We took a walk over
And it was much further than we expected
But we got to see the river on the way
And that made the husband happy




The sleeping Buddha entrance fees was 100baht which includes a bottle of water
Husband think it was a much pleasant visit
Than the grand palace but we didn't stayed long
Because im too hot and sweaty!!
Husband was getting tired too despite it was his goal to stay outside till 3pm, haha






We tried to find a metered taxi back
But they quoted us like 400bahts!
And insist they dont turn on meter at tourist areas
We walked like 5mins away
Stopped a metered taxi and he was fine with turning on the meter
And we reached hotel for 90bahts.

Lunch was a small local eatery near hotel
That served hainanese chicken rice and hor fun
I dont know was the hor fun that good or we were hungry or potion was small
We even ordered extra plate of hor fun!
We finally checked into our hotel,
again due to late booking, we didnt have much choice
and i wanted to be near the pratunam market
So we got a suite again! 
But this time we are located on the 20th floor
with a scary open balcony that always scare us to be standing there, haha
I find it too unsafe with just a short wall till a little above our waist







After our precious shower,
Husband wanted to rest but with platinum mall nearby like 5min walk
I know that time is precious!
I wanted to leave husband in the hotel and go shopping
But he decided to tag along
As I had very specific things that Im looking for
The shopping felt like a game for husband
To spot the certain fake brands that I wanted
Phew...lucky for me.

We finally returned to our room to rest in the evening
but end up watching a documentry on Channel news asia for 1hour
and it was time for us to go for dinner 
We have no idea what to eat 
even though there was a outdoor seafood stuff near hotel
I wanted to try the street beef noodles
but husband finally chose a thai/western bistro 
Food was so-so but we werent very hungry to begin with

Since most shopping malls were closed
I wanted to walked to the pratunam market to know how far is it from hotel
and how to go incase im the only one to be awake in the next morning
To our surprise, the pratunam market has a night market!
Apparently is a 24hours market, just that different parts are opened at different timing of the day
In addition, there was a special valentine's day night market in front of platinum mall
so we just spent some time window shopping.

Oh why are we window shopping?
Because we have no cash left haha
We didnt know that the hotel requires a 1000baht deposit
Since our cards are not credit cards, we only know it now,
we had to put the deposit in cash and till check out.
As its was our last night of trip, we really had only limited amount left.
Especially after the expensive grand palace visit in the day...
With another 1000bahts gone, i had to exchange my last 100sgd into baht
Which dont leave us much esp for shopping!
So; i would say we end up being quite tight shoppers, haha
luckily, we still managed to survive till the next day....

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