Adventure continues

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Today we left to explore Bangkok. We took the sky train all the way through downtown to the Chao Praya River where we took express water taxi to Khaosan Road.The whole day was spent walking to locate a room for tomorrow,where AJ and Alison will be staying with us when they arrive.



This street is backpackers heaven .The rooms are $25 a night,nothing fancy but clean with a rooftop pool. The best part is they are in the heart of everything ,so we will not have to go far to see things once they are here.

After this adventure we had to travel all the way back to the other side of the city the same way we came. This is a huge city with a mixture of old and new. Markets everywhere and strong odors of outdoor cooking stalls,traffic,the whole thing can be really overwhelming for a little country girl. Ron missed our stop on the river taxi, so we had to go all around again on our way back.Needless to say we are both putting our feet up now and ordering room service.

A good nights sleep is in order as we have to go back there again tomorrow to take our bags and then go all the way out to the airport to meet them Aj and Alison at 10:15PM so I am sure it will be a busy night ,they say Khaosan Road parties to the wee hours of the morning.

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Photos

Me patiently waiting for a water taxi
This river is as busy as the roads here in Thailand on our way back our boat actually hit another boat coming into pick up the passengers.The boats come in every 20 minutes not sure how many passengers they hold but we had to stand all the way to our stop.

Express River Taxi
This river is as busy as the roads here in Thailand on our way back our boat actually hit another boat coming into pick up the passengers.The boats come in every 20 minutes not sure how many passengers they hold but we had to stand all the way to our stop.

Long Tail boat
You have the option of renting long tail boat instead of taking water taxi not sure about the cost but it was only 18 Baht(60 cents) one trip down the river.We took long tail last time we were in Bangkok for tour of the canals and I am sure we paid significantly more for the personal long tail boat. We also took the Sky train not sure about cost on this as we purchased an all day pass for 120Baht(approx $4 each which gave us unlimited travel on it for the day ). All in all it was quite an experience.

Comments

[Joyce]

Thank you
Am getting your blogs....glad to hear you are enjoying yourselves. Just thinking of AJ...he should be ONLY another 8 hours to Tokyo...I've been tracking his flights and IF he was on them they all seem to have been on time.