On my feet in that town, it was so incredible experience. Flew from Frankfurt to Singapore then continued trip to Bangkok. I came in that city in the middle of night, every place looked so quite. Stayed in the area that called China town, maybe the most crowded place in that city. But it was cool, because you could find lots of things in that area. Street foot or just local snack, hmmm so yummi…
Started tour in the morning, I went to a place called Grand Palace, everybody said you couldn’t say that you were in Bangkok without went to that place, so I went there. That was so huge palace for a king. But what I could say, it was not looked like a palace but for me I thought it was more like a place with lots of temples. Only with 160 Bath or around 40 thousand rupiah you could enjoy huge, nice and luxury castle. People said some of the castle was truly built by gold. But it was only rumors and I didn’t know was that right or not. But one thing that I could say, Grand Palace was incredible place when you could absolutely saw lots of Buddhist cultures that maybe you couldn’t see in another place.
Well there was a thing that I wanna say for you if maybe you interested with that place, Grand Palace was closed only till 4 p.m and no short or tank top allowed. But don’t worry, because you could lend a long traditional dress there. I think it was around 80 Bath or if I convert it to rupiah maybe around 20 thousand rupiah.
Out from Grand Palace, just took a walk around and you could find lots gift shops. I bought nice pink wide hat that time, yah the price was around 60 – 100 bath. Enjoyed the afternoon with new nice hat, I continued my way to the river port. Well surprised actually when suddenly some people came to me and said “Wat Arun tour, nice ship and nice trip only for 700 Bath”. I took 1 ship and pay 600 Bath or around 150 thousand rupiah and went to a place that called Wat Arun. Gosh… I was so afraid that time because the ship was really traditional and old, but it was fun when I could see some people that live in the corner of the river; I even couldn’t imagine how they could take a bath in that river and washing and other activity using that water. Looked at them and I felt really lucky.
In the middle of river suddenly the ship stop, one of local people that own the ship said to me that in here I could see huge fish, its were called Lele fish, well I don’t know how to called it in English. But it was really huge fish.
Finally we arrived in Wat Arun, again it was only castle, but I thought it was older that all castle in Grand Palace. For me it was not too excited. But yah I thought Bangkok it was castle city, when you could find lots old castles.
Night life in Bangkok was much better. Nice bars, nice clubs. They had nice huge mall, but what I didn’t like was, there were lots of unorganized street shops. However, the good thing there, you also could find outdoor bars where you could sit down enjoyed beer or just soft drink and had fun with your friends accompany by nice life music on the stage. It was nice. And also there was a place that hiding and I thought it was very famous in Bangkok. They had a program that called “a Tiger Show”, I had no idea in the first time when my hotel reception asked me to go there watching tiger show. So I went search that place. And hahahaha it’s a striptease place with some big bodyguards. That place openned around 11 pm, but I didn’t know how much the ticket because I cancelled enter that place and went back to my hotel with big laugh.
China town was 24 hours place, don’t worry I think that place was safe. But the important thing didn’t forget to bring your id in anywhere you went because sometimes police came to you suddenly mostly in the midnight and just asking about your id.
In the second day in Thailand, I took one day tour from my hotel going to Pattaya. The tour programs were Thailand-Pattaya-Coral Island- then backed again to Bangkok. The tour price was around 1800 Bath or 450 thousand rupiah. I went from hotel around 7 pm. Goodness, Bangkok had problem with traffic jam as same as Jakarta. In everywhere around the city... not in the morning, not in the night you will find traffic jam all over the city. Hmmm frustrating…. Finally we arrived in Pattaya around 10 am. Hmmm you’d see lots women that sat down in front of each café in there with minim dress and tried to get you to enter their café. For sure it would be fun for men. But be careful, maybe some of them is not real woman. I mean, there were lots men in Thailand that really pretty and they dress were like women.
The tour took me to place called centre of jewelry. There they’d bring you inside the cave and showed you how jewelry made. After that, they’d bring you to the shop that full with jewelry and you can choose which jewelry that fit on you. The price is depend how old the stone, older stone is more expensive. I bought one from medium Safire. ahh so woman.
Pattaya was a beach town; well if you ever went to Kuta in Bali I thought it’s almost the same area. Where you could find lots café near the street with nice beach in front of you. I took one boat and start the trip going to Coral Island with another 25 peoples joined me in that boat. Needed 3 hours with boat from pattaya to reach that island. In the middle way our boat stopped, to let us enjoy the little bit water sport in the port middle of ocean. After 30 minutes we continued our trip. We arrived, and everybody said “Oh my God”. From far we saw heaven. Blue water… white sand and nice green hill. We needed to change from our big boat to a smaller that finally brought us to the land. One of tourist coming from Europe only sat down on the land and just enjoyed that nice view. For me I directly went to the café to enjoy my late lunch and filled my empty stomach.
In Coral Island you could do alots water sports or just only snorkeling. I went more deep to the island and found some local people houses behind the hill. From the high, I saw that island as a heaven, really incredible. Took some pictures of mine with the island background (must be), I felt really lucky to enjoy that beauty. One thing that i should say, you couldn’t find any hotel in that island. So you just needed to come in the morning, enjoyed the sun and the view all day and backed to pattaya again in the afternoon.I could say that that island was really recommended place for you to go when you have little time to come to Thailand.
(IeRn)
