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| 8.50am |
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Take off from Low Cost Courier Terminal
Malaysia |
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| 10.40am |
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Arrived at Bangkok International Airport |
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| 11.45am |
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Taking airport bus A1 route with 100bt |
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| 12noon |
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Visit the Erawan Shrine and then walk to Siam
Paragon. We have lunch at the Siam Paragon's food
court, it is a new and biggest shopping center in
Bangkok.
We have ordered Hot Plate Seafood Sukiyaki (55bt)
- not nice as the squid is not well done, Fried
Noodle with Pork (45bt), Crispy Crab Omelette with
rice (55bt) and a regular Thai Ice Tea (45bt).
There are a lot of universities student having
meal or meeting up at the food court, they have
standard colour of university uniform - white shirt
and black dress/pants. The only way to differeciate
which university are they from are thru a pin label
that they wear on the shirt. |
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| 1pm |
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After the lunch, we walk around the big Siam Paragon.
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| 2pm |
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Take BTS to Thong Lo station for Sawasdee Sukhumit
Inn. Paid 1000bt for two room's deposit. After check
in, we took rest for a while. |
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| 4.50pm |
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Take BTS to Chong Nongsi station in attempt to look
for Surawong road which is "mentioned" has
a lot of food hawkers stall for dinner, but we are
unable to find any road that has a lot of hawker stalls
and was told there's no more such stalls at that particular
road anymore. |
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| 5.30pm |
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We then take BTS to Sala Daeng for dinner. We
walk around Patpong Market, there's nothing much
to see. Most of the stalls selling popular brands'
imitation bags, clothing, watch...almost similar
with Petaling Street here. There's also staff in
the pole dancing clubs stand by the street to look
for customers.
At the end, we took dinner at Novus restaurant
nearby Patpong market. We've ordered Singha beer
(70bt), Thai fried rice (150bt), Fried Thai noodle
with Thai sauce (140bt). |
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| 7.30pm |
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After the dinner, we walk around places near Patpong
market. |
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| 8.30pm |
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From a tourist forum, some recommend to walk around
SUK 11 at night. Hence, we take BTS to Nana station.
There are some nice atmosphere of restaurants and
pubs, but that's all to see. At here, this is the
first time we saw a person riding on an elephant and
the other person looking for people who wants to buy
a pack of food to feed the elephant. It was a young
elephant. |
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| 9pm |
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As we are going to join a tour to Ayuthaya, we went
to 7-11 to buy some food for breakfast tomorrow. 7-11
shops are everywhere in Bangkok. |
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| 10pm |
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Take BTS back to hotel and rest. |
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| 6th Apr. 2006 |
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| 6am |
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Wake up and have breakfast. |
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| 6.30am |
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Depart to Ayuthaya from hotel. The one day tour
cost 1200bt pax. It's usually 10 persons in a group.
But fortunately (to us), there's no one signing
up tour package to Ayuthaya today, hehe...so there's
only three of us going there. We can "occupied"
the tour guide :D.
A van pick us up, we passed by Khao San road to
drop off two tourists for a different trip. Khao
San road has a lot of budget accomodation for backpackers.
But I can't believe there are people already start
drinking in the early morning. May be they never
stop drinking from last night.
Our tour guide, Wasana is a freelance tour guide.
She is very friendly and nice. She told us a lot
about Bangkok and Thailand stories along the way
to Ayuthaya. The journey is about two hours drive. |
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| 8am |
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The first destination we will visit is the Bang
Pa In Summer Palace that was built in the 17th century.
It is a beautiful palace mixture of oriental and
western architecture styles surrounded by the beautiful
royal botanical garden.
There are a lot of mango trees in the garden.
The garden is maintained very well. |
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| 9.30am |
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Arrived at Wat Phrachao Phananchoeng, the temple
of a 19 metres high golden Buddha. |
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| 10am |
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Visit Wat Phra Mahathat, the temple of famous tree
Buddha. You can take picture of the tree Buddha, but
you must not stand and take the picture. You have
to kneel down and take the pictures, this is to show
respect to their religion |
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| 11am |
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We took early lunch today before going to the
last places attraction in this Ayutthaya trip.It's
a restaurant by the river. |
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After the lunch, we go for elephant riding. It
cost about 400bt for about 20 minutes ride.
After the ride, we go to Wat Phra Sri San Phet,
the largest temple in Ayutthaya. It was built in
the 14th century. The main temple hall is rebuilt
nearby and it was called Wat Phra Mongkhon Baphit.
It has the largest bronze Buddha in Thailand. |
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| 2pm |
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The Ayutthaya trip is finished and go back to Bangkok. |
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| 3pm |
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The last places of attraction offered by the tour,
it's to visit the Gems gallery. The red stone gem
is worth to buy, but we did not buy any of them. |
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| 5pm |
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Back to hotel and take a rest. |
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| 6.10pm |
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Take BTS to Siam station and have dinner at Bah
Khun Mae, a nice Thai restaurant. Atmosphere and
food is good. Spent 1122bt for the meal.
It took us some time to look for the restaurant.
This is because the details from brochure/book is
wrong again. |
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After the dinner, we proceed to Asia hotel via
BTS for a superb lady boy show at Calypso Cabaret.
The theather is in the Asia hotel itself. As it
is a good show, the tickets are selling fast. It's
best to ask tour agency to book for you or you may
reserve the ticket online - http://www.calypsocabaret.com.
We got our ticket at 700bt pax. The ticket provided
a free drink too. |
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The shows start. At the end of the show, you may
take pictures with the lady boys. You may give them
tips if you want to. The show is good and superb.
It's a must watch show if you go to Bangkok. |
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| 10pm |
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Go back to hotel and rest. |
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| 7th Apr. 2006 |
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| 7am |
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Wake up and have breakfast. |
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| 8am |
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We need to go to Grand Palace, so we take BTS
to Saphan Taksin. There's a river taxi service at
there.
You may buy tickets when you get on board or you
may buy one day pass ticket at the ticket counter.
I bought a one day pass ticket (100bt) comes with
a free travel guide book and a small bottle of mineral
water. |
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We arrived at the Maharaj Pier. We follow where
other people goes, trying to find the entrance of
Wat Phra Kaew. There are a lot of tuk-tuk driving
around, telling you the palace is closed bla bla bla
and recommend to take you to somewhere interesting.
Better not to believe them. |
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| 10am |
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Finally we have found the entrance. The entrance
ticket for Wat Phra Kaew and Grand Palace cost 250bt
per person. We starts travelling from Wat Phra Kaew.
Their architecture is amazing. The sculpture art
on the building is cool too! Every statue or pieces
on the wall maintains well. There are a lot of tourist
groups. You can listen the stories told by the tour
guide from a certain distance. But better don't
let them discover you are listening. :D
The Grand Palace is just next to the Wat Phra Kaew.
They are connected. The most significant building
in Grand Palace would be the Chakri Maha Prasat
Hall. It was built by King Chulalongkorn. The architecture
presents mixture of European and Thai style. |
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| 12noon |
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As we are not sure which way we should go to
Wat Pho, we ask the staff stand by the door. We
can't believe he actually told us that Wat Pho is
now closed for lunch time and suggested we go to
some other places. How can a tourist attraction
closed for lunch time? We later seek advice from
other staff which are girls. Their information is
correct.
At last we found the place and bought the ticket
cost 50bt for entrance. |
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We also come to Wat Pho to try the Thai traditional
massage. Wat Pho has its massage school. Three of
us try body massage for 1.5 hours (300bt). |
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| 2pm |
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After the massage, we buy fruits and ice-cream
as our lunch. The weather is so hot.
The next destination is China town. We took river
taxi to Ratchawongse Pier. |
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| 3pm |
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Walk around China town. China town is very happening,
there are a lot of wholesale outlets at here, especially
women accessories and toys.
林真香 is very famous in Bangkok China town. Especially
pork floss biscuit. The boss know how to speak Cantonese.
Some people in China town knows how to communicate
little bit of Mandarin, most of them are Cheow Chao. |
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| 5pm |
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Got to try shark fins dishes at China town too.
We go to DACO restaurant to have our dinner. We've
ordered abalone rice (500bt), shark fin soup (500bt),
bird nest soup (100bt) and Hong Kong style fried mee
(150bt). |
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| 6pm |
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It's almost night time at China town. We tried to
local food along the food stalls: wantan mee (60bt),
bbq meat ball (10), curly kuey teow soup (20bt) and
dessert. |
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| 9pm |
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Walk to nearest MRT station Hua Lamphong to Lumphini
station, going to Suan Lum Night Bazaar. |
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| 9.30pm |
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Walking around Suan Lum Night Bazaar. If comparing
it with Chatuchak market, Suan Lum's stuff are more
expensive.
The weather doesn't really in good mood, going
to rain. Hence, we have to go back to our hotel. |
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| 10pm |
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When we reached near our hotel, it's does not seem
like going to rain. So we have supper at a restaurant
nearby, tried Tom Yam Gong (85bt) It's nice and spicy. |
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| 10.30pm |
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Go back to the hotel and rest. |
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| 8th Apr. 2006 |
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| 8am |
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Wake up and have breakfast. |
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| 9.30am |
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Depart to Mo Chit station, heading to Chatuchak
market.
A lot of tourist going there, you can see a lot
of foreigners in the BTS Mo Chit line. In fact,
it's a big weekend market that everyone likes. |
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| 10am |
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Arrive at Chatuchak market. A lot of people are
earlier than us. But some stalls are just start
setting up.
There are seriously a lot of stalls in the market,
it would be easier if you obtain a Chatuchak market
map when you arrived. We also tried the local food
there, such as Thailand ice-cream (3bt), Ka Long
Jin (30bt), fried chicken, seafood glass noodle,
Thai noodle (126bt). By the way, Thailand orange
juice is very nice too. |
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The market is so huge, we are tired, can't walk
all the stalls. Furthermore, more stalls are setting
up when we are leaving, those are stalls opening
at night. It's becoming pact and difficult to move.
As we are going to the BTS station, we saw more
people are walking towards the Chatuchak market.
I miss the Thai ice tea at Siam Paragon food court.
So we take BTS to Siam station. |
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| 6pm |
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Dinner at MK restaurant. Their green color mee is
nice. MK restaurant can be found in most shopping
malls. |
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| 8pm |
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Walking around at Siam Square, which is opposite
the Siam Paragon. |
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| 9pm |
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Tired, have not tried foot massage yet. So, we go
for foot massage cost 300bt. |
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| 10pm |
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We bought one day BTS pass this morning. As tonight
it's the last night in this Bangkok trip. So we
decided to enjoy Bangkok night by dropping at some
stations.
First, we go to Saphan Taksin station, the Chao
Phraya River station. We step into Shangrila hotel,
there's no one in there except staff. It is so quiet.
We took some pictures and then go to Asok station.
We saw a happening street not far away from Asok
station. So we go there and explore, but find out
it's a "meat" market. Lots of pubs or
dancing pole clubs and foreigners looking for girls.
We actually wish to walk further, but worried there's
isn't enough time to take BTS back to our hotel.
Next station we are going to is Phrom Phong, nothing
much to see there. So we head to Thong Lo station
and go for supper at the same restaurant again. |
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| 12.30am |
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Back to hotel, pack our stuff nicely and rest. |
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| 9th Apr. 2006 |
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| 9.30am |
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Wake up and take breakfast. Last day of the trip. |
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| 11.30am |
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Check out and go to airport to catch our flight
by taxi.
We passed by Ekkamai station, missed to see things
around at this station last night. |
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| 12.40pm |
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The Air Asia counter is not opened yet, lining up
and wait. |
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Got ourselves check in and then go to take lunch
at Burger King. We was thinking to take KFC, but KFC
there is just a take away counter in the airport.
I think there will be more restaurants in the new
Bangkok airport that is opening soon. |
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| 2pm |
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A lot of stores to shop in the Bangkok airport.
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Get on board. |
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Arrive at Malaysia. End of Bangkok trip. |
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