Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Second day in Bangkok



Our first breakfast in Bangkok, is just a normal toast bread with butter or jam and they also have fruits likes pineapple,papaya and also dragon fruits. Looks like not bad for a backpackers place right. After our breakfast, we walk to the BTS skytrain station which is 5mins away from our guesthouse to Chit Lom Station.

At Chit Lom, where the Erawan Shrine (Four Face Buddha) located. Is just right next to the Erawan Bangkok shopping malls. The area has many shopping malls nearby, including Gaysorn, Central World and Amarin Plaza. This Erawan Shrine was once vandalized before by a Thai man believed to be mentally ill on 21 March 2006. After the incident, a white cloth was put up to conceal the absence of a statue. The shrine was closed to the public for time, but officials later reopened the site, displaying photographs of the statue so that worshippers could continue t0 pay their respects. In the same year on 21 May 2006 at 1139am, the new Brahma statue was completed and placed in the shrine. That time the sun was shining directly above the shrine.
After our visit to Erawan Shrine, we continue walk to Siam Paragon and take a skytrain to Mah Boon Krang (MBK). This is the place where it looks like our Malaysia Sg.Wang. A place where the youngster like to go. Just opposite the MBK shopping mall, there is a Art and Culture centre. There is a lot of nice painting outside the building. If you all are arts lovers should pay a visit.
Is lunch time. This round I would like to recommend fried Oyster with egg and Pad thai from Platinum Mall Food Court. Once you reach the food court remember to buy your coupon before you start make any orders. If you have extra coupon please remember to refund back before u leave the malls. In Platinum Malls you can find a lot of cheap stuff like tops, shorts, dress, shoes and etc. You can bargain the price they offer to you OR ask them for a wholesale price which you need to purchase minimum 3pcs, but u can mix with any colors and design. The best if you can go shop with 3 or 4 friends together. All the shop in Platinum Malls start closing at 8pm. Because of heavy rains. We waited in the malls for almost 45minutes for the rain to stop, but it didn't.
Few minutes later, we decided to take a cab to the nearest skytrain station to Sala Deng to have our dinner. I have been once to this place. We ordered tomyum soup, minced pork salad with glass noodle, steam fish, grill sotong and fried egg with crab-meat. All together is 5 dish with 4 rice and drinks. but it only cost us 780Bath for 4person. When we finish our dinner, we take a walk around Sala Deng area before heading back to our guesthouse. After one long day walking around, all of us went to a foot massage which only 250Bath for 1hour (",).

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