how much can u spent in bangkok? well, according to my experience, you can almost spent your fortune away, because this is what we, the whole family, left with in the airport...
4 penny+ a sushi = total assets in airport
was actually trying to spend it away as well, but cant find a thing to buyWe went to china town after being recommended by passerby and ended up went into jewelery shop. So obviously the passerby is not really a good Samaritan after all, but since we ended in that place, so i might as well do what tourist do best, take photo~
random house that looks kinda cool
when we tried to go back to hotel, we found out that we kinda caught in the wrong area to pick up taxi. We took almost 20minutes before we got into a taxi that later found out to be unlicensed. Mum was insisting that the driver was keep on looking back through the mirror, checking out our attire when we got down the car, but the rest of us didnt feel anything. So we had arrangement with him, and asked him to bring us to dinner later at night. We were brought to a rather expensive restaurant, so sister decided that be it he had good or bad intention, he is obviously earning commission out of this, so on the next day, while we were suppose to take his taxi to go around city, we hide in the hotel lobby and asked the hotel owner to chase him away. Its kinda cruel, but at least later on my mum was happy.
touristy photo.....
tomb that is looking cool
found the place by chance and 2nd sister love the buddha statue so much that we were talking about how to smuggle it back
the grand project of Thai kings
had this pic on my table for almost a year, just love looking at it
the not so real sea marketwe went around the famous tourism place around Bangkok like the palace that is crazily decorated with gold, sacred temple, and ride the boat across the Mekong river (i think...its been too long.
took a number of good shots and enjoy being tourist that do nothing but snap~snap~snap~ then the rest of the travel time was nothing but shopping, but i actually enjoy it. its kinda hard not to enjoy the market here as it is soooo huge. the best part of all, Thai are just so creative, their home decorative items are just so interesting and refreshing to look at. In fact, many things that i saw here was only able to find in malaysia after a good few years.
I had massage with my dad, and i actually dont really enjoy it. ( and i proved it again in year 2009 when i gotten a coupon to try massage in classy KL massage center). but i am so regret now for not trying the grasshopper, as i was prohibited from doing so by my mum. shouldnt have shown the intention of buying in front of her, sigh...
The problem with traveling with bagpacker is that, we tend to find way to save up money in many ways. Perhaps, this round, we kind of overdid it. We were told that his hotel is famous for having spacious room, and hence we sort of decided to get a 3 bed-room for 5 person, after all, we are all family member, no problem squishing a bit.
As many might aware or might not aware of, hotel actually have a strict policy on the number of people staying in a room due to safety purposes (obviously is bad for business also-lar), and my sister was stupid enough to bring out all our passport during registration (when i said all, i means 12 passports, as we all so happened all renew the passport and decided to bring along the old one). The person over the counter got the shock of his life, and sort of like keep an eye on us since then.
When we going up the room, we kinda feel like we are being watched. Later, upon entering our room, we received a phone call regarding how they charge extra person for this amount and bla bla bla. Then 5 minutes later, we received a call saying that they usually check on the number of people in the room once in the afternoon and once during the night. Then 5 minutes again received another called saying in fact they do rounding and checking throughout the midnight.
My sister was kind of irked by the calls and she stand up and shouted, "i had enough, lets go to another hotel!!" so we went down to the counter to return the room and request for refund. Interestingly everyone in the counter know us and our reimbursement was done in like 10 minutes.
As we are still puzzled over the incident, we seek some clarification from a local friend of our sister. Then only we realize, the hotel staff actually believe that we are doing prostitution business, WTF~~!!!~~
Do i look like someone who need to do this? my sister screamed.
No, i said calmly,then i grinned at my dad and said, perhaps he looks like a pimp to them.
Received nothing but an innocent stared from him. How i not love my dad :)
Traffic, is what you cant missed in Bangkok
heaven~~obviously that's what my sister was screaming...
In PJ,i totally ignore all this. In bangkok, i find it interesting. Pathetic touristWith much anticipation, we as a family, finally gathered around and have our 2nd ever family trip (as a whole) in Bangkok. The last round happened when i was 11 year old, and obviously things has changed so much since then. 4 of us were being guided worrying that one of us will fell into the Lake Toba during that time. This time around, 4 of us are worrying over our clumsy dad that he would actually fall into the Mekong River :)
My parent is actually kinda concern for this trip as its their first time traveling without following a tour package. On the contrary, the evil daughter and son of theirs are extremely excited over this arrangement as we know very well free and easy = lots of element of surprise.
And the surprise really hit us as soon as we step into the relatively renown hotel in Bangkok.