Back in Bangkok
After life in Oz, I must admit its nice to be back in Bangkok. The weather is glorious, sunny and 32C every day and food is so good and cheap!!
Met up with Anita and her family who were all amazingly friendly and helpful. We stayed at her youngest Auntie's place for two nights along a street which seems to be almost entirely owned by her family! So sweet how they all live together!
First day we started how we would end up doing for the next few days.... eating! On getting to the house around 1pm, Anita's mum brought out all this Thai food she insisted we try.... all good all good, but after stuffing ourselves silly, Anita's Auntie came over and brought some more food! Some really nice green, black and white beany dessert type things!
Feeling the need to walk it off we went to a shopping centre for some exercise.... exercising that credit card! We bought a few bits and peices and decided to go watch a film.... OMG.... if you ever think about watching a film called "The Grudge" think carefully. This has to be the scariest movie ever! I am not ashamed to admit that me, Ellen and Anita all held hands over our eyes throughout the film and probably only saw 70% of the movie. Film stars Sarah Michelle Geller and is based on a Japanese movie ("Ju-On"), no doubt Victor, Ho Lam etc, the "been tai" horror fanatics have probably already seen the Jap version and got the new one on fan ban VCD already.
After a surprisingly easy night's sleep, we spent the next morning at a tourist attraction called "The Ancient City". Anita's mum had told us that it was based on the map of Thailand and had reproductions of all the landmarks from around the country. Thinking it would be some bunch of models we could not have been more wrong... this place was massive! The best bit was actually hiring bikes to ride around this enormous park. It must have been at least 10 years since any of us had ridden a bike and we were all weaving all over the place! Actually I lie. Ellen and I were fine, lets just say that Anita was the only one to fall off... and the bike wasn't even moving then!
After this park, we headed down the road to a Crocodile farm and Zoo. After failing to look like locals and getting charged the tourist rate (3 times more expensive!) we went in and wandered over to see the Elephant show. The three of us sat in an empty stadium and after 10 mins thought something wasn't quite right. Apparrently it wasn't busy enough for them to hold a show, but after we asked they put on the show especially for us! So nice these Thai people. The elephants did a few tricks like riding a trike, dancing and tight rope walking, but mainly wandered over to where we sat so we could feed them bananas. Really cool getting so close to these amazing creatures and later Ellen got to walk under one and I rode one bare back!
Next was a crocodile show which went further in crazy acts than the ones we saw in Oz. The Thais will first pray to the Croc and then stick their head in their mouths. Even more shocking was when they stuck their arms down the croc's throat! More shocking still was that at the end they asked if anyone wanted to go into the croc pit (along with 15 crocs) and take a photo with one. Needless to say everyone laughed and walked out.... except for us. Must have been that ghost movie the night before, it must have overloaded our sense of fear as the three of us climbed down into the pit! Creeping slowly towards the croc Ellen and I got a photo done and then backed off quickly. When it came to Anita, she posed and.... nothing. The camera battery was dead. Waiting a few minutes the guy played with the batteries a bit and tried again, but no good. Eyeing the swimming crocs around us, the temperature seemed to go up a few degrees. Finally someone came over and passed the guy some new batteries, the photo was taken and the three of us could climb out.
The next day was filled with shopping at Chatuchat market (the one where Vicki went shopping crazy). The extra suitcase we bought the day before was now completely full.
Today we went to a really nice massage spa for a aromatherapy massage. For the guys this is basically lying naked will some woman rubs oil all over you for one and a half hours. Easy life.
We have booked our train tickets and hotel for going up to Chiang Mai in the north for some trekking in the countryside, elephant training and cooking courses. Will be interesting travelling overnight on the train, we leave at 6pm and arrrive 7am, the next morning. Better get my Gameboy fully charged up.
Met up with Anita and her family who were all amazingly friendly and helpful. We stayed at her youngest Auntie's place for two nights along a street which seems to be almost entirely owned by her family! So sweet how they all live together!
First day we started how we would end up doing for the next few days.... eating! On getting to the house around 1pm, Anita's mum brought out all this Thai food she insisted we try.... all good all good, but after stuffing ourselves silly, Anita's Auntie came over and brought some more food! Some really nice green, black and white beany dessert type things!
Feeling the need to walk it off we went to a shopping centre for some exercise.... exercising that credit card! We bought a few bits and peices and decided to go watch a film.... OMG.... if you ever think about watching a film called "The Grudge" think carefully. This has to be the scariest movie ever! I am not ashamed to admit that me, Ellen and Anita all held hands over our eyes throughout the film and probably only saw 70% of the movie. Film stars Sarah Michelle Geller and is based on a Japanese movie ("Ju-On"), no doubt Victor, Ho Lam etc, the "been tai" horror fanatics have probably already seen the Jap version and got the new one on fan ban VCD already.
After a surprisingly easy night's sleep, we spent the next morning at a tourist attraction called "The Ancient City". Anita's mum had told us that it was based on the map of Thailand and had reproductions of all the landmarks from around the country. Thinking it would be some bunch of models we could not have been more wrong... this place was massive! The best bit was actually hiring bikes to ride around this enormous park. It must have been at least 10 years since any of us had ridden a bike and we were all weaving all over the place! Actually I lie. Ellen and I were fine, lets just say that Anita was the only one to fall off... and the bike wasn't even moving then!
After this park, we headed down the road to a Crocodile farm and Zoo. After failing to look like locals and getting charged the tourist rate (3 times more expensive!) we went in and wandered over to see the Elephant show. The three of us sat in an empty stadium and after 10 mins thought something wasn't quite right. Apparrently it wasn't busy enough for them to hold a show, but after we asked they put on the show especially for us! So nice these Thai people. The elephants did a few tricks like riding a trike, dancing and tight rope walking, but mainly wandered over to where we sat so we could feed them bananas. Really cool getting so close to these amazing creatures and later Ellen got to walk under one and I rode one bare back!
Next was a crocodile show which went further in crazy acts than the ones we saw in Oz. The Thais will first pray to the Croc and then stick their head in their mouths. Even more shocking was when they stuck their arms down the croc's throat! More shocking still was that at the end they asked if anyone wanted to go into the croc pit (along with 15 crocs) and take a photo with one. Needless to say everyone laughed and walked out.... except for us. Must have been that ghost movie the night before, it must have overloaded our sense of fear as the three of us climbed down into the pit! Creeping slowly towards the croc Ellen and I got a photo done and then backed off quickly. When it came to Anita, she posed and.... nothing. The camera battery was dead. Waiting a few minutes the guy played with the batteries a bit and tried again, but no good. Eyeing the swimming crocs around us, the temperature seemed to go up a few degrees. Finally someone came over and passed the guy some new batteries, the photo was taken and the three of us could climb out.
The next day was filled with shopping at Chatuchat market (the one where Vicki went shopping crazy). The extra suitcase we bought the day before was now completely full.
Today we went to a really nice massage spa for a aromatherapy massage. For the guys this is basically lying naked will some woman rubs oil all over you for one and a half hours. Easy life.
We have booked our train tickets and hotel for going up to Chiang Mai in the north for some trekking in the countryside, elephant training and cooking courses. Will be interesting travelling overnight on the train, we leave at 6pm and arrrive 7am, the next morning. Better get my Gameboy fully charged up.
posted by Kee at 09:30
1 Comments:
ooi, it requires lots of stamina to be looking after u two....... it's a tough job but someone's gotta do it, even if that means having to fall off a bike while it is stationary.. ;)
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