Photo: Grand Palace
Day 47: Bangkok
The slowest start we’ve had so far… 11am before everybody
was awake. We headed straight to the Grand Palace. The taxi driver was full of
useful and not so useful information. We found out that the king is very sick
(possibly useful – but I’m not sure to who) and that the driver likes European
cars (not so useful).
The Grand Palace is – Grand. Lauren loved it. It was so much
bigger and grander than she was expecting. Unfortunately the Temple of the
Emerald Buddha was closed today due to an event being set up (we think maybe
the King’s birthday?) but we could still see inside from the outside. After we
had a good look around we headed to the river where we caught a local river
ferry with its extremely brief, jump-on-jump-off stops where it doesn’t even
tie up to the wharf at some stops. Next form of transport was the ‘sky-train’
to get us back near the hotel, then walked the last bit, through the street
stalls and markets. A swim and a poolside drink coled us off, before heading to
the complimentary Thai dinner and Show, put on by the hotel.
The dinner was fantastic. Each person was served a variety
of great Thai food, followed by traditional Thai dancing.
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