We tried to wake up super early to go visit the temples and the Grand Palace. We tried. The girls managed to get up earlier than us boys so good job to them. We ate breakfast at Budacco before heading back up to plan for our day. We have come to a conclusion that taxi rides costs as little, if not lesser than Tuk Tuk rides here in Bangkok, so we will stick to taxi rides all the way.
The girls came up with a solid plan of cabbing to the Grand Palace right away. It was a good plan. So we flagged a taxi and the ride to the Grand Palace costed us 200 baht. When we reached, we were told that the Grand Palace is closed for lunch. We were offered a boat ride around their village instead.
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| Those are fishes by the way |
I don't even know why we accepted and paid 500 baht each for that boat ride. There was nothing much to see and it was over in 30 minutes. Thankfully, we alighted at a jetty nearer to the Grand Palace entrance. We purchased a patterned bottom each to enter the Palace. My "long pants" costed me 100 baht.
And we were right. Those without long pants are not allowed to enter. We went in and realized we need to purchase tickets to go all the way in. 500 baht per ticket. We paid and entered.
The whole place was so freaking crowded and hot that it was a torture to navigate the place. Most of the tourists are Chinese and my, they were pushing hard. It was a huge giant sea of humans.
The temples were architecturally astounding, but otherwise boring to a Christian like me and John. And the place was so confusing that we don't even know which one was the Grand Palace.
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| I think this is the supposed Grand Palace. |
We alighted at the Platinum Mall and decided to settle our lunch there. There was this food court at level 6 which reminds us of Singapore. So we decided to eat there. My goodness, the food was so good. I ate my roasted pork as usual and drank the Thai milk tea. The milk tea was the bomb. Total coast of the meal is around 200 baht.
We went back out and hired another cab to take us to Chinatown. It is a supposed tourist attraction too. But when we got to Chinatown district, the entire place was dead. Like legit dead. All the shops are closed and streets were empty. We tried hopping around a few streets but we eventually concluded that we don't know what we were doing.
And yeah, that was the most legit thing we did today. I bought only 4 packets of chewing gum home. Then I grabbed a few Singha beers and a ready-to-eat chicken. Total spending at Big C for me was 611 baht. Not so sure about the rest. I know Yutong spent around 1k baht. She really took the whole place with her.
Well, the cool thing about supermarkets in Thailand is, they provided cardboard boxes for you to put your items in and check them in at the airport. How cool is that. We grabbed scotch tape for 24 baht at the counter and proceeded to load our items.
It was quite fun stumbling here and there just to make sure everything is in place before taping it up like a Christmas present. Then we just pushed the whole trolley cart back to Budacco. Randomly crossing the heavy traffic like a boss pushing a trolley cart, that itself is memorable. We even almost got knocked down by a trailer. Whew!!!
Then we headed to the Budacco dining area and chilled there. Drank beer and dismantled my chicken. Supper never felt so good. Was a little tipsy when we headed back to our rooms but we still managed to sit down for one hour and play card games. Finally, I got Yutong to game mode on. And I felt first hand her competitive game sense.
Surprisingly, she was quite good at Big 2 and managed to guess my antics. Or maybe it's just the nature of this friend group. Everyone seems to know what's going on in everyone's mind. Yutong was super red on just one cider and the sunburns. It was a great way to spend our last night there!
The girls promptly left our room at 3am and I went to bathe while drinking another bottle of Singha. Got so drunk that I spilled beer on myself. Time to sleep yo!
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