Sunday, November 23, 2008

Bangkok - day 80

Our first stop this morning was the Hua Lamphong train station to book our train to Chiang Mai for the 25th of November. We got the train we wanted to book for the way there, but the return train didn't correspond, so I guess we'll see about that later... From there we took the metro and then the skytrain to Mo-Chit, which is where the world's biggest market is held every weekend. It is pretty damn big and sells everything from clothes to pets (they have hundreds of underage puppies and some very weird turtles and snakes and birds) to furniture to food and antiques! The only thing they don't sell is electronics... Anyway, we spent quite some time walking around and got fed up with the heat and the people pretty fast. Also, we were disappointed cause we didn't find any christmas presents at all... the only thing we ended up buying were 3 polos. Late in the afternoon we took the skytrain back to our hostel and relaxed there for a bit. For dinner we went to an Indian restaurant called Akbar and had some good chicken korma. We're planning a day trip to Kanchanburi tomorrow so we're going to bed early tonight!

Weather: very hot

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

vs pouvez aller voir le marché flottant ( une demi-journée)et on se ballade sur des canaux.
pour le curry le "green" est plus parfumé.
avez vous vu le boudha d'emeraude pres du couché ?
bisou
maman

Anonymous said...

Dear Nat and Pierre,
What are you having a great time there... I do like especially all your fantastic photos. Wishing you still a great time and lot's of love from all of us from a snowy and cold down south of Holland.
Big kiss, aunt coco.

Anonymous said...

oui, on a vu le buddha d'emeraude. Le marche flottant n'est plus ce qu'il etait et on nous a deconseille d'y aller...