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Hellooo all,
After such a big day on Monday we decided to have a nice and easy day yesterday. We took a boat ride down the river to the Grand Palace passing the Temple of Dawn on the way. Going down the river was really nice in itself....seeing the completely contrasting sights was just incredible. You have the really beautiful temples such as the grand palace and the Wat Arun and then you have the small dirty shacks on the river where people live. People cook, clean and go to the toilet in the river....right next to the glittering gold of the temples. Took quite a few photos on the river before getting off at the pier to the Grand Palace.
The Grand Palace is really quite impressive. The architecture and detail all over makes it soooo pretty on the eye. Took many many photos and even had our heads tapped with the wet flower (haha no idea why....assuming it brings luck or peace or something like that.) The highlight was probably seeing the emerald buddha....an amazing sight and was very interested to learn that the King himself changes the clothes of the buddha as the seasons progress. We even bumped into two of the skanky korean girls who were on our tour to Kanchanaburi. Luckily they had to wear clothes to get into the palace.
Then we caught the boat back up the river towards the sky train - fiona then accidently made us get off one stop early and we ended up in the middle of a school yard. There we were completely lost in the middle of a school playground and no idea where to go determined not to have to pay 18B again just for one stop. But we eventually hiked to the sky train station and went to the city centre Siam.
We have both decided that Melbourne can take a few lessons from their train systems over here. Everything runs soooo smoothly, freezing cold AC cabins, the tickets get recycled and on the underground they dont let u near the track until the train is there. Its aweosme....Ben marvels the trains every time he sees them haha.
We then found Ben's favourite place in the entire city. The Siam Paragon centre. Again a shopping centre to be copied back home. The food court has more food that we can even be bothered to look at, shops are huge and classy and.....drum roll.....there are CAR SHOPS ON THE 3RD LEVEL. Not just any car shops. Ferrari, Porsche, Lambourghini, Jaguar, Mazarati, Bentley, Aston Martin, BMW and Ducati Motorbikes. Ben was in heaven. After studying each car intensly and wondering how they even got the cars up there we were finally allowed to leave to desperatly try and find an adaptor since we seem to have left ours at home.
NExt stop was the Night Market. Sum something night Bazaar. AWESOMEST PLACE EVER. Quite possibly even beat the shopping centre haha. It is just woah. We have no idea how many market stalls there are but we havent even come close to finishing so must give it another shot tonight. There is also this massive ferris wheel which has the best views of the whole city. Its the equal biggest in the world....same size as the one that used to be in Paris and the Manchester one. Very cool (and scary) but you can see how pretty the city is at night. Bought a couple of souvenirs and tried local beer at the beer garden. Was a pretty cool thai coverband there too.
Ok hope everyone is having a ball back home. If any one from coles is reading this i SWEAR they havent paid me (fiona) enough for my last week there. Sally??????? Meh.....
Catch ya all soooooon.
Xoxoxoxo
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