travel light!
Reached airport at 620am. Ade and Jasmine was already queueing up to check-in. So very soon, we were onboard the plane.
Quite liked Jetstar seats, because I felt it is meant more for Asian build. At least my head can rest nicely on the headrest... Had some delay though. So the aircraft didn't get to take off till about half hour later.
waiting to taxi out
Nothing much to see outside the window. Cloudy day, so mostly surrounded by fluffy white.
It's a 2 hour flight from SG to BKK, so we reached Bangkok at approximately near 10am SG time.
land ahoy!
Went to take metered taxi, but was told that 5 pax need to get 2 small cabs or 1 big one. So of course we chose the big one, and hence, we became acquainted with Peter (Pithuk). He's quite a nice chap and speaks quite good English (plus he's cute too! Waahahaa!). Our cab fare costs 700 baht from airport to hotel. He took one highway toll less ('coz it's Sunday, so no traffic), so our total fare was 655 baht. Then he offered to take us from hotel to airport on our day of departure for 500 baht. He said, "No deposit required. Just based on trust." Haha!
Reached Amari Watergate Hotel, and we managed to check-in to 1 room first, as the other 2 rooms were not ready yet. As we waited for our rooms, our bags were myteriously taken away and we were not given any tag to identify our bags. I've been wondering how they'll know which room to take it to later on... and haven't been able to figure that out yet. But yes, our bags were indeed taken to our room #1 thereafter. Cool! So gave the bell-boy a tip for bringing our bags up.
After that, it's off to find food! Platinum Fashion Mall is just opposite the hotel, so we went there.
yummy food for early lunch
flattened chicken satay
raw salad doused in sugary vinegar
Platinum Mall Food Center
Too bad didn't take any picture of the tom yum and beef noodles... After lunch, we went to Chatuchak market to walk walk. Took a cab from hotel.
Sunday traffic, overhead bridge towards Chatuchak
First impression of Chatuchak was that it looked quite cramped. No offence but it feels almost like squatters area. Many many stalls inside.
inside one of the lanes
from outer 'main' street
food and drinks vendors
interesting vehicle with i think tourist on it? not sure...
At some point in time, we decided to split into 2 groups to look at different things. So we made the clock tower as the landmark to come back to.
clock tower
However, we still managed to lose our way... Hahaha!
scenaries when we were lost...
passing by more than 1 time...
public toilet
Luckily the public toilet was not as bad as I thought it will be. Better than some public toilet in Malaysia la... cost about 2 baht per entry I think.
found a secret world! Which in fact, was a shop selling nice smelling stuffs.. but more importantly, we borrowed their seats to sit for a while haha
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