Our second, and our last full day in Bangkok before a day of travelling to our next destination tomorrow. The day began in typical holiday fashion, stuffing our faces at breakfast. The full English and an omelette for me, nothing better.
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| The family in the less crowded part of the market. |
Once our hunger was satisfied we were on the taxi ferries to Bangkok china town and the markets. One of the most notable things about walking around Chinatown and the markets are the smells, although this applies to Bangkok in general. As you shuffle down thin congested streets with hundreds of stalls selling everything from fake nails to vibrating dildos (I wish I had taken a photo), you get blasted with tonnes of different smells every inch of the way. Small Thai women push past down the alley with a trolley in front of them full of hot coals and what you hope is skewered chicken balancing precariously on top. They stop at stalls to sell food to the merchants, yelling the whole time at anyone who glances their way. My sister managed to buy a dozen packs of fake nails for the tenth of the price of one back in Britain, as well as buying a look a like Louis Vuitton bag and a blackberry case. We then found a small temple where it seemed like the people were preparing for a wedding, we watched as they rehearsed their dragon dancing. The men in the costume must of been boiling, they were leaping around perched on thin 5 ft high columns dressed in a heavy and hot looking dragon outfit. As we were about to leave the temple we noticed a small pond, on closer inspection we observed a massive crocodile, lying docilely in the shallow water.
Once we had left the temple we tried to find somewhere to sit down, drink and eat. This proved very time consuming and frustrating. We were so worn out from the heat and walking around that when we saw a McDonald's we were ecstatic. Once we were satisfied with our Thailand McDonald's we carried on walking around. My parents and my sister needed passport photos for their visas for the next part of our holiday, for some reason I was the only one with a photo for my visa. So while we were walking around I noticed a photography shop which seemed to advertise doing passport sized photos, so I suggested for my family to go in and try and get their photos done.
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| My sister trying not to laugh during a very weird experience. |
It was a very bizarre experience watching my family trying to have visa photos done by people they couldn't understand and who couldn't understand them in turn. Once this was all done we started heading back to the ferry and hotel. Just before we got to the ferry we saw an absolutely massive lizard wandering on the road.
Once we were back we chilled by the pool for a little bit, had dinner and started packing our stuff for an early start tomorrow morning.
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