BANGKOK
(in the BTS on the way to shopping on the second day!)
It's the first time, and probably the last time (sad enough) I get to travel overseas with my friends ON OUR OWN! YES! I mean we're really stuck with each other without any adult supervision (like having teachers-in-charge when we go overseas under school events, or holiday with family. Even thou yuling had stepped into adulthood, but we all know that she doesn't behave like one lah, HAHA. )
We planned everything from scratch. Researching places we want to go, getting all the locations and ways to go there. Reading up on the elections, travelling tips in BKK, and safety. Bought insurance, just in case. For some reason, Yuling was really happy with the package cause it included everything, from the basics like lost of personal items and baggage, cancellation of flight, to those super chao suay and rare circumstance like being kidnapped in the country traveled to. Thou we didn't manage to cover all the places we initially planned, but I feel that this trip is good enough! As expected, there we're some unhappy moments when we took turns to have mood swings, but it's still fine in general lah!
ONE THING I REALLY LOVE ABOUT THIS TRIP: We had a fair share of everything. Be it shopping, adventure, transport or food!
SHOPPING:
We walked thru high end shopping malls, where they sell luxury brands like Marc by Marc Jacobs, Armani, and dont know what brand cars in 1) Siam Paragon. There's mid high end shopping place, 2) Central World. Being just like any one in Singapore, with DC Comics Super Heroes shop, adidas etc. FEP alike malls, 3) Platinum Mall. The place where we spent majority of our time in on the second day, where me and cat couldn't stop screaming "EH! THIS LOOKS FAMILIAR! I SEE THIS ONLINE BEFORE!", and where yuling was crowned the shopping queen of the day, cause she spammed like close to 20 Tshirts, when she's the most quiet, and seemed unexcited one. Old bugis village like 4) Chatuchak, the VERY BIG weekend flea market that everyone raved about. 5) Khao San Road, also known as the backpackers' street, which can be classified under adventure too.
ADVENTURE:
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, the most famous floating market in BKK, located abt 100km away from the hotel we stayed in. It took us an hr on the taxi, can travel to and fro from Joo Koon to Changi Airport already! We had to sit on a boat thru out the entire journey, most of the time we just keep turning out head from the left to the right and back to look at the different stalls at the sides, as well as the small boats that floated by us selling all sorts of things, like food, fruits, clothes, tourist-y souvenirs.
Maeklong Railway Market. The train literally passes thru the market a few times a day! It's really funny to see the hawkers pack and pulls their stuffs inwards before the trains come, and quickly recovered to what it used to be straight after the train passes them! The train was really close to us, probably just 30cm away!
Well, this isnt all our adventure. We had one more long walk cause we alighted on train station earlier than we should. LOL. No pictures for that, cause didn't have the mood for anything. NOT even food when we're feeling hungry.
TRANSPORT:
BTS line, aka MRT in Singapore, our daily transport, where we travelled from Nana Station, to Siam, Chit Lom, Mo Chit, National Stadium. It's exactly the same as MRT! The seats, the advert TV in the middle of the carriage, the broadcast of the name of the next upcoming station. The only difference was the hand grip bar. Maybe they're trying to be friendly to the people standing close to the doors, but didn't realise that it's actually blocking the mrt map with bulbs that shows where the train is going to next.
Taxi in all sorts of colours. Only had pictures with pink vehicles, like bus and taxi, cause cat couldnt stop squeaking that it's cute whenever she sees them. VERY UNLIKELY OF HER TO DO THAT, but it DID happened.
VERY OLD TRAIN. Yes, it's the one that passes thru the market. We took this kind of train from Maeklong, to Ban Laem, then to Wongwian Yai as we traveled by ourselves back to BKK. It's even older than the one we have in Singapore, that goes all the way into Malaysia.
TUKTUK! I like the ride back to our hotel at night right after the rain! It's so cooling, fast, air-clean and congested!
FOOD: I had a hard time trying to find the very local kind of food, and all those that my friends and brother told me about!
We started off with our slightly overpriced but wide spread of korean food on the first night we arrived BKK!
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