Bangkok - Day 2

I woke up from my beautiful Bangkok dream, had breakfast in the hotel and left to Chatuchak Weekend market around 9.30am. This is a famous open flea market in Bangkok and it is only opened during the weekends. It is such a massive market that legend has it that if you spend 2 minutes at each of its stalls, it will take you at least 2 months to finish them all. Breath stopping right!

We had a floor plan of the entire market but once there, you just had to walk in one direction or another, it was just too vast to start at one end and finish at the other. Chatuchak was indeed a feast for the eyes and stomach, he he he. There was everything possible sold in it - pets (fish, squirells, bees, fighter cocks, reptiles etc), food, clothes, undies, handicrafts, ceramics, gardenings plants and pots, food of every kind- it can go on and on.

We spent close to 3 hours wondering around. We shopped a bit. I bought some fantastics pictures of Buddha (I even captured a picture here). When our legs could not walk anymore, we found a shady eatery and had some aunthentic Thai cuisine.

We returned to the hotel in the afternoon and had a much deserving Thai oil massage. I wanted to capture some pictures of us having the massage but Sam forbade me. She was shocked that I will even think about it. She absolutely don't want any of our semi-naked massage pictures appearing anywhere.

We napped a bit after that and headed to Riverside Bangkok Hotel for our dinner cruise. We arrived around 7.30pm and headed towards the pier at the back of the hotel and boarded our ferry. It was already bustling with people and as we headed towards the upper deck and was shown to our place, I had a view of the various food on the menu. I ordered steamed white rice and chicken fried with cashew nut and had sticky mango rice for desert. It was quite something to have a dinner on top of a ferry with the wind blowing gently and a merry crowd around you.

Just after 8.30pm, the ferry slowly started its cruise down the great Chao Phraya River. The sceneries on both sides of the river was breath taking. The sight of the Grand Palace and Wat Arun, majestically lit was beautiful indeed. The cruise lasted 2 hours and we were ready for bed and dream when we arrived back at our hotel, just after midnight.