ESL Blogs

This is the final instalment of my blogs of the same title.

1. My Bangkok Excursion - Day 1

2. My Bangkok Excursion - Day 2

3. My Bangkok Excursion - Day 3

The next day, we went to the famous Chatuchak Weekend Market. The market is only opened on weekends. It's a popular area for tourists and locals alike. It's a bit far from the Bangkok City Centre. We had to take the MRT and then a subway to reach there. The market is really big. If you don't really take note of your surrounding, you will find yourself walking round and round and round.

In the market you can find anything and everything. The kiosks and shops are very small, and the alleys are smaller. You'll bump shoulders to shoulders with strangers, and anyone who is claustrophobic should be very careful. I had to admit that a few times my friend and I got a bit lost and ended up back to the Clock Tower, the landmark of the market. You see, every time we thought we were lost, we will ask any shop owners for direction. And we will always end up being guided back to the Clock Tower.

Anyway, my friend and I bought a few souvenirs for our friends and families back home. We lost track of time to be truthful. After deciding enough is enough, we stopped for a while and enjoyed durian ice creams at one of the kiosks. We tried to have our lunch at one of the kiosks, but unfortunately there were too many people and no empty table.

As usual, we had our lunch back at yesterday's restaurant near our hotel. Then we decided to go back to Platinum Mall to find several items that we couldn't find in the Chatuchak Market. You see, even though it seemed there were anything and everything in the Chatuchak Market, because of the huge crowd, small alleys and big areas, we didn't manage to find certain things that we wanted to buy.

As expected, we were caught in another famous Bangkok jam on our way to Platinum Mall. Our shopping excursion this time was less time consuming because we already know what and where we were looking for, more or less. 

As it was the last day of our stay in Bangkok, I decided to once again take a walk along the Rama Road I in the evening. A funny incident happened when I was just walking a few blocks from my hotel. I was minding my own business when out of the blue, a Thai security guard at one of the commercial buildings called me by gesturing to me with his hand. With him were two foreigners. Apparently the foreigners were a bit lost and asking him for assistance. So I became some sort of translator to the foreigners and basically showed them the place where they wanted to go at the map. In my own country, I'm used to being mistaken as a Chinese lady, or a Filipino lady, now it seemed I may looked like a Thai lady. LOL. 

After my walk, I decided to buy a box of sticky rice with mango and freshly cut papaya at one of the street kiosks as my dinner.

The next day we checked out from the hotel quite early and took a taxi to the airport by 9.00 am because we don't want to be caught in the infamous Bangkok jam. Thankfully the ride was smooth, but we were caught in the long queue of security and immigration clearances. Thank God our flight was on schedule and I reached my home safe and sound.

I didn't visit many interesting places in Bangkok because it was just a short trip. In addition, since it was a big place, you need to take the public transportation to move around. And honestly, the jam really put me off to go to further areas.

Anyway, it was still nice to be back to Bangkok after so many years since I was there. The smell and feels of it were still the same.