back home from my Bangkok trip =D

post-trip report:
Day One
left the country by train around 3pm. definitely regretted the decision to agree to ride a train to Bangkok instead of flying orz

Day Two
reached Bangkok around 11am. rode the underground train to reach where we were gonna stay during our trip, Rembrant Towers Serviced Apartment. it was a 4-star place so it was really nice to stay over =D walked around afterwards, had a late lunch at a Korean BBQ restaurant and walked around some more. forgot what we had for dinner xD went to bed early...

Day Three
Merry Christmas!!
met up with a tour taxi driver (Mr. Noopit) who offered to drive us around to anywhere we wanted to go (^_^)b went to the famous Floating Market first. took us about an hour to get there by car D8 not really worth it coz there really wasn't much to see and the boat was expensive oTL then we went to the Royal Palace. the place was HUGE! took some time walking around but it was worth more than the Floating Market. Lastly we went to the Reclining Buddha's temple. took us a while to actually find the correct temple coz we kept going around in circles XD it was 10 times bigger than the one we have in Penang 8D got back to the apartment later than expected coz of the traffic jam orz went to dinner with a business associate of dad's. as it turned out, we were having dinner at a Christmas function oTL but good thing it was only semi-formal otherwise we would've been severely underdressed xD

Day Four
went to the Safari Zoo today =D there was a huge crowd when we got there and most of them were in tour groups orz but luckily they were more interested in catching the animal shows so after breaking away from them, we had more space to breathe 8D also got on a ride on a bus for a trip around the Safari Park. unfortunately my camera went dead near the end of the ride so i couldn't take that many pics Dx dad was tired from walking around so we just followed wherever Mr. Noopit wanted to take us. he showed us where the snake farm was and also MBK, the biggest shopping mall in Bangkok (with reasonable bargain prices (^_^)b) went back to the apartment and rested a bit before we left for a dinner cruise on the Chao Phraya River. the dinner was worth every baht paid =D

Day Five
spent the whole day at MBK, shopping 8D finally left the mall around 5pm and took the monorail back. spent an hour walking around coz dad wanted to find a pizza place that used the traditional method of baking the pizza using a stone oven oTL

Day Six
checked out of the apartment around 11am and caught a cab to the airport. flew out of Bangkok at 2.15pm and arrived back in Penang around 4pm. reached home around 6pm =D

mum's planning to go to Chiangmai next year orz

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