Bangkok - Day 3

We wake up and have our breakfast at the hostel. It was our first breakfast since we have to skip the breakfast on the second day due to urgency of time.


After a simple dinner, we depart to BTS Nana and take the train to BTS Saphan Takhsin where the pier for Chao Phraya River cruise is located. Our mission is to visit the landmark along the river. At the pier, Mighty complaint he have stomach upset. Well mighty doesn’t seem mighty to me….


We depart to the 5th Pier name Ratchawang where the Chinatown is located. We have an hour walk around Yaorawat, the Chinatown area and Mighty was just too sick to continue the day. We bid farewell to him as he is heading back to hotel to have a nice sleep while we all cruising around to Grand Palace at Pier Maharaj.


Grand Palace was huge and grand. The entrance fees of 350 bath per person sound expensive in deed but one can easily spent 3-4 hours inside it. The Grand Palace include Emerald Buddha Temple.









Our next stop is Wat Pho, the reclining Buddha at Pier N8. As we have enough of temple, we decided not to enter the temple and headed to Wat Arun instead. Wat Arun is a must to visit landmark. It was situated in front of the Choa Praya river bank and one can climb up the very steep stair to arrive at the middle part of the Wat. Spectacular view of the river and life along the river can be seen from the Wat. The Rama Bridge that almost similar to Penang Bridge could be sighted at the top of the Wat as well. As the weather is terrible hot, we decided to change our clothing before climbing up. Basically we are sweating the whole day.


We headed back to BTS so we can continue shopping at Child Lom area. At this moment, we have yet another casualty down. This time it was Nicholas. He was way too tired to walk anymore.


3 of us continue our shopping journey venturing into Amarin, Erawan, ZEN, CentralWorld, Platinum, Pratunam market and Gayshorn. It took us 2 hours only to walk all the place as we have nothing in mind. We were hoping to find a good spa instead.


We went back hotel at 6pm and the 2 sick victim look in deed very sick. 7pm we decided to go to Cabbage and Condom to have dinner. This restaurant serves western and also thai food with the concept of educating people on the importance of using condom and safe sex. At the end of the dinner, we were given a condom each.


Then we went for Thai Massage call ‘King and I’. After a bad experience that we have, we are hoping for a good massage this round. In deed it was good but painful too…


We ended our day with chit chating in hotel room and packing for check out tomorrow.


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Bangkok Day 2

We wake up extremely early on 2nd day to catch up with out planned tour to 'Old Bangkok', the ancient city of Ayutthaya, 50km away from Bangkok town.

We missed our hotel breakfast but we buy some express food from 7-11 while shooting photo around our hotel compound. The chartered van arrive at 6.20am and we are set to Ayutthaya.

Story cut short,

our first destination is Bang Pa Inn, the summer palace. It was built by the king of Thailand many years ago and was kinda villa for them to stay over. Each king built its own structure here. There is building ranging from Roman, Chinese and even Thai style. We shoot a lot of photo and even feed the huge tortoise and fish. I had never see such a huge tortoise in my whole life!!!Green Elephant attack!!

Drink this to cure sickness??
cute Nicholas, no wonder someone call him pinky bear


Our next stop is Wat Yai Chaimongkol, a very nice wat with Cambodian style. There is stupa, hundred of Buddha statue and one huge stupa tower that tourist can climb in. There is also a sleeping Buddha whereby the building that suppose to house the Buddha have been destroyed by the Burmese during the Thai and Burmese War. The Wat was actually built by the King as a celebration of winning the first war between Thai and Burmese. It was said that if you make a wish in front of the Buddha, you should also put a coin at the Buddha foot. If the coin can stick to the foot, it would mean that the wish is granted. Well, it took 2 attempts for me to stick the coin though...




Then our next stop is Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit, the largest Bronze Buddha in the Thailand.

Our next stop was just beside Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit. The wat was name Wat Phra Si Sanphet which resemble the current Emerald Buddha Temple in grand palace. It was the royal temple during Ayutthaya period. It was totally destroy during the war with Burmese and there is also image of headless Buddha. As mark of respect and to obey the law there, we are not snapping any photos of Buddha without the head. It was so sad that how disrespect human are when come to war!

After a tiring trip, we have a late lunch by the riverside. The food was merely average. The tour guide then bring us to a local food stall to buy some traditional food. But none of us buy!!!

Then we travel back to Bangkok and stop by at the largest gem gallery. Basically it was the same as what we have in Phuket island. On our journey back we were flooded with red shirt protester. But nothing much happen. By the time we arrive hotel, it was already 4.20pm


We have some rest in hotel before departing for dinner.

At 6pm I asked everyone to prepare for dinner. 6pm in Bangkok is actually 7pm in KL, thus the sky start to get darker. We headed to Silom and Patpong using BTS. Ended up in Sala Daeng BTS station, the nearest BTS station to Patpong. We have a walk to search for food and we ended up with Pork Noodle again!

After our dinner, we have some shopping around Patpong. Our Tiger show was cancel since majority of us not interested including me. Well, for some I believe they will be very disappointed. But well, nothing much I can do...because it was nothing much than an old nanny performing some show...Am I right?

We went to massage to pamper ourselves and my pity legs...Have not been walking for so much for ages already....

2 hours of massage ended in a blink of eye and is late already. We headed back using BTS and continue shopping in Nana district. Buy some mango sticky rice, beer and snack for supper. Have a good chat before heading to sleep. That is the end of our day...

Bangkok Day 1

As an imsonia addicted person, I usually unable to sleep during the eve of my trip. However, this time around I feel nothing at all and went to bed at 12 midnight after last minutes packing my luggage. The feeling is so different compare to other trip as there is not much excitement. Maybe as age is catching up, the excitement is no longer as strong as younger time.


Wake up at 6am and have a quick bath and breakfast before departing to KTM station at 7am. I missed the 7am train and have to wait for 7.30 train which lead to me being the last to arrive KL sentral at 8.30am.


We opt for AirAsia bus as it was much reliable and arrive LCCT at 9.30am. We check in just on time and waited for 20 minutes before boarding the plane. To our surprise we have actually booked the ‘FD 3572’ flight which is a AirAsia Thai operated flight. We were greet with ‘Sawadee ka’ by the air stewardess and at that point of time, the ‘suah ku’ me realized that the whole plane will be operating in Thai language. The Airbus depart at 10.42am, a slight delay of 2 minutes which is consider very good to me.


We arrive ‘Suvarnabhumi Airport’ at 11.45am Bangkok time, after a 2 hour flight. Please be reminded that the time in Bangkok is one hour later than KL timing. We have our brunch at the Airbus itself. I took the infamous Nasi Lemak.


We get a metered taxi at the airport which in normal circumstances, the price is fixed and the metered was switch off. It cost us 445 bath. As usual, the driver will not be able to find the hotel that we stay as the driver in Bangkok are not really expert in their own road but with my heavy preparation before departing, I am able to usher the driver to our location.


We check into ‘SUK 11 Hostel’ at the famous Sukhumvit road. It was well located with 7-11 convenience shop in front of it. The hostel is a famous backpacker hostel full with foreigners ranging from European to Asian.


Upon check in, we rest a while and depart to Chatuchak Market at 2pm. From Nana BTS we headed to Mo Cit BTS station. Basically Chatuchak have everything under the sun..Say it and you will find it...





We have our simple lunch at Chatuchak of Spicy Soup Noodle and Pork Tender Soup Noodles. We shop around the Chatuchak Market, which is also the biggest market for 3 hours. It was stuffy, sweaty and tiring adventure. We spent a lot for food!!!




We rest ourselves at Chatuchak public park. To my surprise the park is well maintain and clean. They even provide free picnic mat around the park. The cloudy weather seem to be the best time to rest while waiting for Zhe Quan arrival.



We headed to Siam BTS at 6pm and we have a walk for about 1 hour before Zhe Quan appears. We shop around Siam Paragon, Siam Center, Siam Discovery and shop opposite Siam Paragon. Have our Samurai Pork Burger at McDonalds. It was normal and taste more juicy and tender than our normal McChicken.



We then headed to MBK which was few step away from Siam Discovery. We wonder around until 10.30pm before we headed back to our hotel. Feeling not enough, we end ourselves at night market under Nana BTS station and have supper of ‘Pray Thai’.


That was the end of our very first day in Bangkok.