Friday, April 5, 2013
Bangkok Getaway - End of holiday
Actually our tour was for 5 days 4 nights. I've written about our activities and places that we visited from the first day we arrived until the third day. On the fourth day, we went to Four Faces Buddha. This place is a praying place located nearby our hotel ( Baiyoke Sky Hotel). I didn't take a single picture in there because i was praying too =). We only had like 1 hour in there and then we were supposed to be taken to Central World Mall.
Since that day was sunday and we are Indonesian,( I believe that Malls in Indonesia are the best malls compared others countries !) we decided to got to Chatuchak Weekend Market or local called it JJ Market . By reading the name, you already know that this market open only on weekend and this is a traditional market. This market is the largest market in Thailand and the world's largest traditional market (14 HA of course!). Since we planned to go ourselves, the tour guide couldn't took us there because we were not suppose to go there, but she took us to the Phaya Thai BTS. Our route was from Phaya Thai going to Mo Chit (the last stop for BTS). We bought BTS ticket (actually it is in coin form) for 40THB/ person for a single way. FYI, there are 2 BTS' in Bangkok, we took Sumkhuvit Line NOT the Silom Line. Sumkhuvit Line runs from North to East where Silom Line runs from west to south).
The interior inside BTS was clean and well cared. But there were no seats left so we stood until the BTS arrived in Mo Chit Station. From Mo Chit Station, we had to walk around 10 minutes (just follow the road) and we found Chatuchak Weekend market!
All i can say is this is REALLY a HUGE traditional market! Contains of 27 sections and they sell everything here ( foods, clothes, plant, art stuffs,even they sell animal!). Because we went there to shop clothes, we directly went to clothes section (2-6, 10-26). I heard that fashion items here are cheaper compared with other market or mall, actually it is! We shopped for like 6 hours in there! hahahaha
Since we were 8 people , we couldn't go back by taking 1 taxi and we were to tired after shopping all day long. So we went back in separate transportation (same destinantion). 2 people took tuk tuk, it cost around 200THB (from 250 THB), 4people take taxi without meter for 150THB and me & my cousin took taxi with meters only for 108 THB ! See the differences...Even last time we took tuk tuk from MBK Mall to Baiyoke Sky we had to pay 200THB/ tuk tuk ( really close distance). Heyyyyy. this is not funny at all, why would you take expensive tuk tuk without air-cond? I prefer use taxi of course!
On the last day (day 5) we all went back home to Indonesia because out flight is in the morning, so there is no time to go anywhere =(
Soooo, that was great experiences in Bangkok & Pattaya, I hope this blog will help you
( I read a lot of blogs too before arriving in Bangkok and i found that blogs are super helpful ). Thank You for reading my blog, please leave a comment...
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