Day 1002 – Bangkok, Thailand
Day 1002 – 5th March 2008 +7:00 GMT
Got the now usual pastries and fruit from the hotel bakery and then made our way to the end of the sky train line and caught a boat up the river to The GrandPalace.
Shrine At Our Hotel
Wiring ?
No Safety Harness
Riverside Apartments
Outside is full of people who say they are volunteers for the palace and tell you it is closed due to a service and to come back after 2:30pm. Then try and get you to take a tuk tuk for 20 baht to allt he temples, which ends up costing several hundred baht and they take you to Gem warehouses etc and try to get you to buy stuff you don’t want. Anyway since reading about these guys we turned them down and headed into the palace. You have to wear long trousers and you should have upto your elbows covered. The palace cost 250 baht each and is amazing to see it a massive area filled with various buildings mostly painted or covered in gold with many mosaic patterns on the walls. In the centre is a temple where you must take off your shoes and when you enter there is an altar and it is full of gold with a Buddha sitting on the top.
Me Outside The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
Flowers At The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
We spent a couple of hours wandering around the palace and just as we were leaving a load of guards marched in.
Guards At The Grand Palace
Guards At The Grand Palace
We then went back to the docks and had some food then headed back to the hotel for a siesta. We headed out again around 6:30pm and went to the night market. This is an area which from around 7pm has hundreds of market stalls selling clothes, Pirated DVD’s and Thai crafts. The area is famous for the Thai Ladyboys which line the streets and had many popular bars. We had a few drinks and wandered the market for a few hours and then returned to the hotel to watch a movie.
Jill At The Mango Tree
Night In Bangkok
Got the now usual pastries and fruit from the hotel bakery and then made our way to the end of the sky train line and caught a boat up the river to The GrandPalace.
Shrine At Our Hotel
Wiring ?
No Safety Harness
Riverside Apartments
Outside is full of people who say they are volunteers for the palace and tell you it is closed due to a service and to come back after 2:30pm. Then try and get you to take a tuk tuk for 20 baht to allt he temples, which ends up costing several hundred baht and they take you to Gem warehouses etc and try to get you to buy stuff you don’t want. Anyway since reading about these guys we turned them down and headed into the palace. You have to wear long trousers and you should have upto your elbows covered. The palace cost 250 baht each and is amazing to see it a massive area filled with various buildings mostly painted or covered in gold with many mosaic patterns on the walls. In the centre is a temple where you must take off your shoes and when you enter there is an altar and it is full of gold with a Buddha sitting on the top.
Me Outside The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
Flowers At The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
We spent a couple of hours wandering around the palace and just as we were leaving a load of guards marched in.
Guards At The Grand Palace
Guards At The Grand Palace
We then went back to the docks and had some food then headed back to the hotel for a siesta. We headed out again around 6:30pm and went to the night market. This is an area which from around 7pm has hundreds of market stalls selling clothes, Pirated DVD’s and Thai crafts. The area is famous for the Thai Ladyboys which line the streets and had many popular bars. We had a few drinks and wandered the market for a few hours and then returned to the hotel to watch a movie.
Jill At The Mango Tree
Night In Bangkok
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