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Published: April 12th 2009
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Didn't get much sleep about 61/2hrs. Made our way to our buffet breakfast, then the humidity hit us, about 33deg with at least 80-90% humidity.
Anyone that knows me, know that hot weather and I are not a good mix, it is like turning a sweat tap on.
We are off to see the Grand Palace today, our first experience with a taxi driver. We knew we had to catch the ferry to get to the grand palace. We had heard all the doggy stories about the Tuk Tuk and taxies drives so we should know better right......
We thought we were safe catching a taxi in our hotel car park, he was a hotel staff right.... WRONG.....He said he would take us to the Pier...OK..200THB. Little did we know the pier and ferry we 2 different things, so we get out at the pier we walk up the plank and some guy is trying to book us on an hour boat ride, no. no. no. no boat ride, straight to the Palace....He my sponsor free .
Please boss you go boat ride. No, wheres the ferry we will walk. Well any one that has been to Thailand know
that the free maps you get are no judment on how far every thing is as it is so far off in distance, what looks like 5 mins around the corner could be half an hour away.
As you can guess it wasn't just the corner, so I was looking like a drowned rat at this stage from the heat.
Finnaly reached the Grand Palace and Guess what "it is closed today boss, I work here" ARRH.... we knew this one and walked down a little further and found the real entrance and went in to the palace.
Oh my god so beautiful, words can not describe the effort, time, patience and artistic ability that goes in to these places. photos do not do them justice, you really have to see it to believe it. Millions of tiles, hand painted walls 5, 6 stories high.
Then on to the Emerald Buddha, 66cm tall on a pedestal so high that it is almost impossible to see. No cameras allowed inside so we had to tried and take on from the outside.
We were so hot and bothered and tired after a couple of hours that we decided to head
back to the hotel and cool down in the air conditioning. Taxi this time.
Tried to buy sim card for mobile only to realize later we had been sold a card for the local telephone not a mobile.
Later in the evening we decided to go to MBK shopping centre that every one raves about..... Oh my god the biggest shopping centre I have ever seen in my life, imagine 4 x Indooroopilly shopping centre 7 floors high. Each floor specialises in it own product. EG: Mobile phones, watches, clothes, get the picture, Gets a bit boring after a while..... Every ones say's Heellll00000 boss, you come look, please boss...
Bought sim card for mobile... 52 Baht, very cheap about $2.50...That was easy....NOT..... Spent the rest of the night in the hotel room, trying to work out where you get the pin number from for the card....Not buying pre paid phone cards before and being in a foreign country does not help. Went to reception the next day to discover I have to buy credit, hello that is , but why didn't they sell me that also in the first place. Any way got credit and still couldn't get
the damm thing working, hence why no one has heard from us.
Will have to wait until we meet up with friends on Monday to work out how to do it.
We thought we would be organised and write our post cards the first day and get them off, only hitch, Thai new year... Post offices have been closed for holidays so we still have with us.
Last night in Bangkok so we have to go home and pack.
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