Thailand Scrapbook: Day One

I’m back from Bangkok and excited to share with you our experience. The humid temperature didn’t stand in our way to experience Bangkok’s day and night life. Due to time constraints, I’m only able to do a post about our first day in Thailand. I will post succeeding days when time permits… I also miss my daily blog reads. I’ll try to cover as much reading as possible. Please bear with me my blogger friends.

Day 1:

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Left the house around 6:15 a.m. My brother drove me to the airport and we picked up Kim (my hotel roommate) along the way at the nearby gasoline station. We arrived in the airport at 7:30 am. Kimchi, Baet and Riggay are already waiting for us in the entrance. We waited for the others to arrive and finally around 8 a.m., we decided to check in. I presented my tempo miles card that I printed out… ahhh, my first 1,300+ miles :) Anyway, while waiting for boarding, we talked about our itinerary and what we plan to buy there. Oh we are all so excited. Winnie was talking on the phone most of the time... Hehehe, I guess she’s taking advantage of her last few hours in Manila to talk to JR. By 10:15, we aboard PAL Airbus 330 and I was seated beside Kim and Kimchi. Food was ok, movie shown was “Shall We Dance” but I slept through half of the film, I was so sleepy … waking up at 5 a.m. is not my cup of tea.

at Wat Trimitr with the Golden Buddha

It was a 2 hour and 45 minutes flight, and since Bangkok is –1 hour of Manila’s local time, we arrived in Bangkok around 12:30 (BKK local time). BIA is similar to Ninoy Aquino Int’l Airport. But what greeted us was an unexpected, not so pleasant smell something that I can’t describe.. I don’t know where it was coming from.. But anyway, as soon as I’m out of immigration, I’m just filled with excitement! We met our tour guides at the airport and accompanied us to our Hotel, Montien Bangkok. After bringing our luggage to our rooms, we then headed to our city tour. First we visited Wat Trimitr, famous for its world's largest Golden Buddha. The three-meter tall and 5.5 ton Buddha image, made of solid gold during the Ayuthaya period. Next stop was Wat Intharawihan (sometimes spelled Wat Indravihan) is located on Wisut Kasat Road on the northern edge of Banglamphu. This temple is known for a huge standing Buddha image called Luang Pho To. It’s about 4 pm and all of us are so hungry. There were some street food stalls outside the temple so we stopped by there before going to our next destination. My first Thai street food was a grilled chicken butt dipped in chili sauce… yummy but ohhh.. sooo hottttt!! Also tasted a porkball dipped in sweet and spicy sauce… a bottle of ice cold water will come in handy during this time.

Shopping at TOKYU in Ma Boon Krong

Our next stop was the Gems Jewelry Shop, where we saw how their precious emerald gems are collected, cut into shape and designed into jewelries. I bought a pair of earrings and a pendant for my brother’s girlfriend. We were dropped off at MBK for dinner and ate at the Pizza Company. We ordered the seafood pizza (thin crust)- which my fiancé recommended, and an all meat pizza ( thick crust) with some seafood pasta and spinach lasagna. And what a dinner that was! I’ve never tasted a pizza that good (I’m still savoring every bite even as I write this entry). A highly recommended place for you to eat if you’re in Thailand. After dinner, its shopping time! We went around MBK and we ended up in Tokyu where Naturalizer was way cheaper than here in Manila. And guess what, before leaving the airport told myself I’m not gonna buy a pair of shoes, but when I left MBK, I was holding 2 boxes of Naturalizer. Shoppaholics are on a roll!

Kim and Me after our Patpong experience

Went back to the hotel to refresh ourselves and around 11:30pm we went to explore Thailand’s nightlife at the infamous Patpong. We were lured by this guy to enter a bar with showgirls for only 100Baht. But when we got there.. and after giving us sodas and beer.. we were being charged 300Baht! What a modus operandi! We already drank our drinks, so we didn’t bother to argue since we were not in our territory. The girls were on stage and dancing with no cloths on and showing off things that their pussy can do (pardon my words). Of course our male companions were having so much fun who were seated in front of the stage... while we, the girls were giggling in the corner. I don’t say I’m culture shocked but had some realization that this is hard work for these girls. I’m both in awe and pity to those women who can’t get a more decent job other than this. Anyway, after an hour, the boys were still enjoying themselves so we left the bar around 12:30 a.m. while they stayed until 3a.m.

... to be continued.

xoxo,
S