Friday, August 8, 2008

曼谷的第六天


曼谷的第六天


Last day in Bangkok, kinda miss this place yet wanted back to my sweet home in KT. A sweet, short but satisfying trip. Saw many things, ppl, different look of Bangkok city over the pass few days.
The last day, we gave ourselves a nice sleep, no more 5.45am, this time we slept till 8 something. And finally, we had a chance again to have our relaxing breakfast at Suk 11. While having breakfast, we discussed where to go after that, 4 of us from Senai need to take a flight around 4.40pm, so by 2pm we need move from Suk 11. For the limited few hrs time, we planned to visit Thailand well known university, Chulalongkorn University located around Siam. Then, Shirlin, Cp and i ll back to Pratunam to continue our shopping spree. =) hehe...


Chulalongkorn Uni was very near to the town centre, after a few rounds of asking ppl with 'Sawadeeka and Krupkrunka', we finally found the place. Hey, the university was quite big and well organized lor, somehow, undergraduates there are required to wear uniform, surprisingly. But, for gals, the uniform is vy beautiful, i dun mind wearing it everyday to uni=).







( pretty le)
We took photos with handsome guy and pretty gal at the uni.. Haha, i think they might be thinking who r this bunch of weird ppl from... cox when met any handsome guys, I was like rushing to take photo with him, end up called by the guys ‘老女人’.


Going around the uni abt half n hr, we 3 proceed to Pratunam. Hey hey, we r back again! And i added 3 more t-shirts and 1 more pants to my wardrobe.


We back Suk 11 around 1pm plus, then settle our luggage and use the time left to explore Suk 11.. 6 days down and we not even ve time to truly exploring this unique guesthouse. If there's a chance, there's must be a chance, I ll back to Suk 11 again...


--> at Suk 11




( thanks wg n wk for helping us to leave our footprint on Suk 11)


Right at airport, after taking a simple meal... I had no more strength to move around, my energy had been used up in the pass few days... Even the attractive duty free zone could not make me awake. On that moment, just wanna find a place to sleep properly.

(Left: real and fake burberry)

At Msia time, 8pm, we reached Senai airport.. there's end of my sweet and memorable Bangkok trip. I ll definitely back to the Land of Smiles again, i tell myself. Bangkok is special to me, it was my first trip aboard ( excluded Singapore), it was my first planned trip. I wanna share my experience with others:
Do not overlook Bangkok, it is a special city with contrast style of life, it is a place where you can find ur own stepping stone, it is a place of freedom and it is a place full of surprise and mystery that u need to discover urself.


&, Do not lookdown of Bangkok, it is much safer than KL Malaysia, at least from my eyes.
So, total up, i spent around RM1280 for the trip including airport tic n tax, accomodation, food, transport and shopping. Abt Rm200 was used in Shopping. =) I regret not buying more t-shirt. =(

曼谷的第五天

曼谷的第五天

Today ll be a full day tour at Pattaya. Beach, Sky, Coconut tree =) yeah, we need some fresh nature air during the tour. You see, the day before was our shopping day n exploring Bkk city town, yesterday was our cultural day where we had visited the rural side of Bangkok, encountered wild animals . So, today ll be our beach day.

Never nevertheless, we did not realise the journey to Pattaya was torturing. Morning, becox of some misunderstanding in arrangement, almost 8.30am only we started our journey from Bangkok to Pattaya, so the 2 hrs was basically wasted to fetch other tourists from Khaosan road. ( that's becos we ordered for private tour where the tour guide would only bring 6 of us) and end up ours was the join tour which had dragged our percious 2 hrs time in Pattaya. $%&&*, we nearly need to squeeze 4 person in 3-ppl seat. Luckily at last not.



Forget about all the unhappy things which we need to take a slow cruise over to coral island. When u ve nothing to do on the 'big boat', the only thing that come to our mind is ' photo sessioning'. Hehe, see how well we 6 person be the model; u can find happy pose, sad n depress pose, fierce n solemn n of course our handsome n pretty look.







( Wk looked vy man n serious in this photo)

Shirlin, JJ and Wk tried the chute, as for me... cox of phobia of Height n Sea 惧高海诊.. esp deep sea... i didn't try =). Then i was entrusted to take photos for them who were up on the sky.



So, after almost 5 hrs travelling by van+boat means, finally reached Coral Island...Yes, it's definitely worth to come this place, the water was crystal clear, the sand was so white and smooth like a carpet. U feel like jumping in the water immediately.

At coral island, u can try many types of water activities, we took the banana boat for RM20 perperson.. I finally tasted wat's called Banana boat, not like in Redang trip which we need to fall in the water ourselves, this time, the Banana boat uncle was vy nice and friendly guy who tried every means to drag us down the boat. ( imagine, we had wkuan n wgeng on the boat, haha) so, i really appreciate the uncle's effort.



After that, we had left only half n hr time to soak in that crystal clear water, we played ' monkey snatches slipper' game. A bunch of 23 yrs old ppl played monkey snatch slipper game...-_-" , that's my idea anyway...

So the short and percious 1 hr plus time at coral island beach ended... Even though the whole journey looked tiring cox of the travelling time, i did enjoy the moment at the beach... recall my memories in Redang =). The person who suffered most was cping, he had seasickness.


( this 2 guys: jj n wk can sleep from the start of journey to the end. fantastic)

We back to Suk 11 around 7.30pm. After a bath n rest, we decided to go to a restaurant ' Cabbages and Condom' located near Nana. I found this restaurant in the forum, ppl recommended it for its special decorations. And the restaurant was opened by the former Health minister of Thailand, to promote the use of condom n prevent spreading of AIDS.

( the table was full of condoms deco)

The moment we stepped into the restaurant, we all had a 'wow' expression. The whole restaurant was decorated by condoms and poster abt safe sex. After dinner, we were even given free condom (instead of mint). =P. We even tried our luck on 'sex'? for the day, haha... 'Wheel of Sex' i called that.





( I got +20: safe sex. use 1 condom) =D


Cp and i tried the half n hour massage at the restaurant too while the other 4 went to Suan Lum Night Market. The massage session: emm, i'm very sensitive to ppl touching n rumbing my legs... i think she got mine 笑穴 perhaps.

For the next day, no more 5.45am... but tmr ll be the last day for us in Bangkok. Oh, i seemed to start miss the place.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

曼谷的第四天



曼谷的第四天


Forth day. Today we were going to visit Kancanaburi, a small province outside Bangkok, abt 2 1/2 hr journey to reach the place. The focus of the day is Tiger Temple, but we were told that the tour included a visit to River Kwai, Elephant riding, waterfall n bamboo riffing n lunch, and is only RM90 including transport. That's one of the reason i highly recommend Mama tour if u r visiting Bangkok.

So another day to wake up at 5.45am, felt a bit moody during the day. Maybe of the constipation problem and the tiredness accumulated these few days.
Again, we took our rush breakfast at Suk 11 reception area, actually, we were only supposed to take breakfast at 7am, luckily they allowed us to pack some food.
Along the journey to kancanaburi, after some reallocation of seating arrangement, we 6 person were put together with 3 friendly angmoh. They r actually exchange student to Shanghai studying Chinese, and now b4 gg back to their home country, they head down to south east Asia. According to them, they have been visiting Malaysia, Bali, Singapore n now Bangkok.
Our first station was Elephant Riding, which at first i thought was not that interesting but end up elephant riding could be the most exciting destination for this tour. The elephant that Shirlin n i took ride on was called Pham Phong, 30yrs old, male. From the trip too, i learnt that elephant ve a pregnancy period of 2 yrs 8 month, izit true? so long!.. Human 9 mths ald bui tahan, not to say 2 yrs. The weather was not hot too, it's quite enjoying to ride on elephant.




(on the left, the small monkey called Toto at elephant riding place)







After elephant riding, we went to Bamboo riffing, an additional item for the tour. So it is basically just sitting on the bamboo looking out at the scenery and walking across the hanging bridge as well. Then, our tour guide+ driver brought us to a small food stall for lunch, that was the first meal we had without Tomyam n curry, simple dishes with most made up of vegetables, it's actually tasted vy good. and that's the first meal i think the guys can eat without considering the portion of rice cox can add more if not enuf.. Hehe. To the end of the trip , we have come with a conclusion that Thai ppl eat less rice, their meal portion is vy small.


( our 3 angmoh friends)


great lunch=)

So after lunch, we went to a small Waterfall along the journey, nothing much to mention cox we had only half n hour there n the waterfall, emm... Kota Tinggi one is much better, bigger.

Next is the focus of the day, Tiger Temple, here the tigers are keeping wild, not only tiger, the temple was some how like a natural conserve zoo. Wild boars, horse, peacock, goat n so on, all without fences blocking them , u can even go near them, just that u dare or not. That was the first time i was near tigers at less than 0.001mm... n touched them with my hands, take photos with them =)











The last place is River Kwai and the Death Railway, maybe we did not know abt the history behind this railway bridge, i think somehow related to 2nd world war where many ppl had died during the war while building this bridge. something like that... so, apparently we went there just to ve a look, but end up we were attracted by a jade selling stall opposite the bridge.. Haha.


We back Bangkok Khao san road at around 7pm plus, after settled next day Pattaya trip, we decided to have our dinner tonite at the hawker stalls along Khao San road, hey, the popiah, patai goreng, n something like roti canai tasted really nice le... wat's make the dinner more interesting was we were sitting besides the road , with no chairs n tables. Photos proved everything, just look down =)





And that is, day four ended with a nice memories, I look forward to the next trip bringing my family here, revisit this tiger temple n Pham Phong..

Tomorrow, argh, another 5.45am... =(