Sunday 16 February 2014

Bangkok

After arriving to Bangkok and a 20 minutes' train ride (Airport Link) to the Phyathai station the adventured started. We decided to use the public transport as much as possible during the entire trip and therefore we went to a bus stop, where we expected to find bus no 503. Nope... Plenty of other numbers, but not 503. Ok, I said, no worries, I know another stop where the bus should stop (I checked the bus lines earlier), just 10 minutes walking from here. While walking the we were asked about 20 times by the TukTuk drivers if we needed a ride. And the number 503 was not on the other bus stop as well... 
I got really confused... and than I saw drTBBE waving his hand at the bus approaching the bus stop. It was 503, and it stopped right where it was when drTBBE had started hand-waving: in the middle of a 4 lane street :-) Anyway, we took the bus and asked the lady collecting money for tickets that we wanted to go to Phra Nakhon. After about 20 minutes she said that we should get out at the next stop, as we did. I still have no clue where we left the bus but it was not Phra Nakhon :-) But it was pretty close to Phra Nakhon. After about half an hour we found our guesthouse, Amarin Inn :-)
We spent the evening in the Khao San road area that is full of tourist, food, loud music and booths with everything you need and do not need.
Sunday passed on visiting the old town with many temples and the Grand Palace:















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2 comments:

  1. Hey there !

    Looks like you had a nice and colorful trips !

    I'd really like to get to Thailand one day !

    Hugs

    Anne-Claire

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  2. Hi AC,
    Indeed this trip was the most colorful so far! And we are definitely going back to Asia as soon as possible :-)

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