Bangkok
Trip Start
Jun 14, 2008
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Trip End
Jul 02, 2008
Bangkok,
Thailand
Thursday, July 3, 2008
So after my last blog, we headed out for dinner. Thai food in Bangkok. It was pretty darn good. I got the red curry. Never had it before but i'm a fan. After that nate and I wanted to go and grab a beer somewhere, so we went to the English pub, Duke of Wellington. Not a bad pub, overpriced but what can ya do? They had some live music, two guys trying to cover english songs. Somewhat entertaining.
After that we came back to the hostel and went to bed. Yesterday morning, we wanted to head to the grand palace. On our way there, we were talking to an older man on the way to the train station. He told us that we needed pants and a collared shirt. We knew about the pants and had them in the backpack, but we both just had on T-shirts. So we decided that wasn't in the cards yesterday so we decided to head over to see the US embassy. We got a little lost on the way there, and headed the wrong direction. But we ended up finding it, we wanted to ask if they were doing anything for the 4th of july because we were talking to a canadian that said that the canadian embassy had a little something for their national holiday. So we got there and were going to take a picture in front of the US embassy but the security guards said that we couldn't. We thought it was kind of BS, so we didn't even ask them about the 4th of july. So we figured we'd just celebrate the 4th on our own.
After all of that walking, from 9 30 till 1, we figured since nothing was really going on that we would take a nap. After the nap, we were talking to a couple from New York. They were heading to a Thai Boxing event, but it was all the way across town, so we didn't go. We figured we'd catch one the night we get back to bangkok. We also found out that our hostel we were staying at was booked for the weekend, we were hoping to extend out stay 1 night, but no luck. So we have to plan on seeing the grand palace and reclining buddha the day we come back from Hua Hin. So we booked out stay when we come back at the same hostel and our stay down in Hua Hin(the beach town).
After that we wanted to eat dinner and head to the night market. We tried to find another Thai restaraunt, but it was too busy and we ended up eating at the same place as the night before. I ended up getting a garlic beef in oyster sauce, wanted to try something new, it was pretty good. There was a Tuk Tuk driver that recognized us from the night before. (a Tuk Tuk is a 3 wheeled cab thing. It's kind of cool b/c there is only one back seat and you can't sit upright, it's basically almost laying down. I've got some pictures of it) He was trying to get us to go to a "massage" place just like the night before. We weren't having any of it, so we talked him down from 60 bat to 40 bat to take us to the night market, but we had to go back and get on the internet to book our hostel down in hua hin first.
So the Tuk Tuk ride to the night market was an experience, weaving in and out of traffic on a 3 wheeled taxi. Crazy. The night market was huge and similar to the street stands. We walked through and figured out some things that we wanted to buy when we came back to bangkok before we fly out. Then we went to find a beer garden. We found one that had some live music. The beer garden was huge. I had a Edinger Weissbrau(wheat beer) and we listened to the music. The live music had dancers and everything. At one point they all got in place and played YMCA. I had to get pictures of that. it was funny. We headed back to the hostel around 11. Had to bargin w/ a couple of Tuk Tuk drivers for the way back. The first guy we talked to wanted 200 bat to get us back here. We just laughed and walked away. We ended up talking a guy down to 60 bat(about 2 bucks).
After we got back to the hostel we ended up hanging out w/ a Brit and a Scotsman. We had a few beers with them and then headed to bed around 1/1:30. That's it for now. We are packing up and catching a bus to Hua Hin. Should be an experience. I should be able to update my blog down in hua hin, but if not i'll update everything when i get back to bangkok. We are going to be in hua hin till monday morning. So if i don't update my blog till then, don't be surprised. Talk to you all soon!
