Thailand - Day 5 Bangkok

The flight out of Phuket was in the morning. Did not have time for breakfast also. The scenery out of the plane was beautiful. And then came Bangkok – oh what a huge city! Really good view from the plane.

 After a bit of walking around the airport, Prachi figured out the bus to take to the metro. Once at the metro, we had to change the train once to get on the airport line on which our Baiyoke hotel was. In retrospect, I should have just taken a cab from there.  Some of the metro stations did not have elevators and carrying one large suitcase was not really fun! The metro is really good though.

The hotel was just about a block from the station from the back side, but we learned later that at night we would have to take the longer route which would be about 3 blocks.  Oh well, you cannot tell all things at one time. The check in at the hotel was delayed because they were quite busy. So we left our luggage there and had lunch at their café. Oh wow, most awesome lunch!! Have never had such flavors in foods before. Really enjoyed it.

Decided to go to the big market, Chatuchak, since the check in was not available yet and it was the weekend! We took the metro again to the market. Thanks to Prachi, I had a very good guide in her. The market was not as busy as I was expecting. There were a lot of shops that were closed. And then there were a lot of shops that opened up at 8 pm. We were there from around 5 pm to 11 pm.  Really enjoyed walking around and shopping. I could not buy a lot of stuff for myself since I could not be sure if dresses would fit me. But I bought for everyone I needed to.  Had coconut ice cream on the way. All was great.

Bangkok really looks great at night also.  Its amazing that it is such a hugely populated city but it is so clean and has no crime. We were walking back to our hotel at 11 pm but had no fear. We had to take the long way, but all was good. I decided to take the buffet breakfast for the two days we were there.

Was really tired that night and tomorrow will be another long day!