After lunch at the possibly D’jit Ponchana Restaurant, we set off by coach to the Chatuchak weekend markets. It was a broiling hot day (like always) and I sweat buckets in the open-air market, but it was still probably one the best experiences I had in Bangkok. Although I suppose my spending was much curtailed by not having enough baht, as usual -_-
Anyway the Chatuchak markets, as its name suggests, is only open on the weekend. There are lots of food vendors as well as clothing stalls, furniture and househodl goods stalls, art and carvings, bags, and everything!
Didn’t really take many photos as I was too busy browsing~~
It was also terribly crowded.
The place where I took the photo of the Thai Maccas below is in a shopping centre that was near to our hotel. If I remember correctly, it is the Central World Plaza, aka World Trade Centre. Idon’t think the building itself matches up to the grandeur of its title -_-. It was big but not *that* big.
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There was also a netcafe on the upper levels that I used to check my email -felt like dying without internet access-
Even when we were in China and South Korea, all our accomodation had internet access, or at least internet access for a very reasonable fee. Now here I am staying in a ?4 star hotel and the internet access fee is completely exorbitant!! $%&^$#%&%#^
So yeah, in the end I had to hold off till I got to a netcafe at this shopping centre.
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Later on that night we went on a dinner cruise down the Chao Phraya river. As I mentioned before on one of my earlier posts, actually I was tagging along - it was a corporate tour for insurance agents (I think) who exceeded their target and thus got this trip as a reward. Anyway, the whole bottom level of the boat was booked for us. There was a buffet which was reasonable (nothing too memorable).
The view of the river banks at night was quite nice. It was very peaceful and it’s hard to imagine that we were in the middle of a busy city. I mean there were lots of lights and buildings and stuff, but no visible sign of people. It’s actually surprising how little they use the river side frontage. I didn’t see anyone eating out at restaurants/cafes by the banks ala Clarke Quay, for example. I guess the river actually isn’t that pretty in the daytime anyway -_- Eating by the side of a muddy river probably isn’t very appetizing…
I only brought a small gym bag to Bangkok, so after buying stuff (which wasn’t much, mind you) I had my hands totally full! My suit especially was a HUGE pain to lug around - it was just so bulky!
And it was hot too in Hong Kong - so by the time I got back to my aunt’s house…which was uphill from the bus stop…well I just wanted a shower (unfortunately the humidity makes the spark plug in her heater malfunction, so I had to shower with cold water. Oh well. All good). Anyway, I felt very relieved to get back to HK. Dare I say it…well at that point it really felt like being home. I understood what people were talking about, I was familiar with how to get around, and most importantly, I could withdraw money from the HSBC ATMs!~!
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