16/11/2015

Early in the morning after we had our breakfast buffet at the same hotel, we went to the hospital to fetch the aunty in our tour group. She was admitted to the hospital last night, most probably due to gastritis. She was sent to the ICU room straightaway right after admittance the night before and eventhough she felt completely okay after a while, the nurses wouldn't "let her off" and told that she had to stay overnight. It wasn't that her case was so severe that she had to be admitted to the ICU, but rather because she was non-Thailandese and whenever tourists get admitted to hospitals, that person will be, without a doubt, sent to the ICU, provided if the hospital has enough rooms. It took almost one and a half hours for her to check out of the hospital. Luckily we all bought insurance before going to Thailand, it just prove how important it is to buy insurance before hand, anything could happen.

We departed to this temple which I forgot the name again. According to our tour guide, there was this hunter who lost his prey while chasing after it in the woods. He noticed something weird about a humongous tree and went for a closer look, only to notice that it was actually a temple "swallowed up" by the tree. The tour guide also told us that the fenced area just a few steps beside the temple used to be the military base camp.

We had our lunch nearby the floating market and it was the first time being served food without spicy elements and without their signature dish -- Tomyam. My parents along with the uncles and aunties requested our food to be chilli-free after the aunty got admitted to the hospital and even though it wasn't the spicy food that caused her to suffer gastritis but they are afraid of consuming spicy stuffs lol.

We went to another train station after lunch. It was a shame that the train station was under construction so there weren't any trains to see. From what our tour guide said, I think the concept of the train station market place thingy is somehow like the floating market, except instead of boats, you are on a train and you can buy stuffs from the vendors on the road side once the train comes to a halt. I'm not very sure though.


We also went to some boring places like the shop that sells bags and wallets made from alligator skin, stingray skin, etc. It was included in our tour and for the sake of it, we just went in and simply glance around and dash out from the shop. We didn't even bother buying. The same goes to the Diamond shop. It's really nice and all, but how authentic is it, you wouldn't know. There are some jewels that they claimed are mined from Malaysia. And I don't know whether it's me and my lack of knowledge in Geography or Sejarah but since went Malaysia had jewelry mines and produce jewels?

We headed to the Baiyoke Sky Hotel for the all-you-can-eat dinner buffet. There was a time limit for one and a half hours only lol. The variety of food aren't as much as there was in Taiwan. Plus, the workers that were responsible for cooking soup mee told us off in an extremely rude manner when we wanted to add just one piece of fried wantan. Thankfully, the view from where we had our dinner buffet which was on the 77th floor was nice. If the view was equally shitty I believe many of the tourists would've bashed the hotel management.

A short list of stuffs that I ate:
Fried popiah, french fries, nuggets, fried rice, curry, sushi, more fried rice, mee, fried wantan (my daddy got it for me after being scolded by that brainless staff), seafood and 4 full scoops of 4 different flavoured ice cream. I think running for 50 km wouldn't even be enough to burn the calories I consumed that night.



We went up to the observatory on  the 84th floor. The observatory platform was spinning 360 degrees for us to have a full view of Bangkok at night time.

 


You'd probably be able to find better photos on Google but oh well.

We went to the night market near Baiyoke Sky Hotel to finally start shopping for clothes. I think Bangkok is crowned as the shopping heaven for women. The night market looked very similar to the ones at Malaysia, just that most of the stalls were selling clothings instead of food so I didn't take any photo.

That was roughly about it for day 3.

xoxo