This morning we got up at 6am and got ready for a half day trip out of Bangkok. We were picked up from the hotel lobby and driven to the shop we booked the tour in where we joined some other people. For the next hour we drove around the block, down the same one way street about 4 times, picking up different people each time. I have no idea why they couldn't all be picked up at the same time. At around 7:45 we finally set off with a full minibus. We drove an hour and a half until we reached Dumnoen Saduak floating market.
It was a lot better than the last floating market we went to, but it still wasn't what I expected. The market wasn't floating, the customers were. We got a paddle boat for around half an hour round the stalls. If the stall owner though the boat was going past too fast or that someone on the boat was interested they just grabbed hold of the boat and pulled it back so they could make a sale. After we got off the boat we walked round the stalls in the building at the side of the river. I bought some things but Lauren didn't buy anything. We sat and had a ice cream as we had time to kill before we had to meet the minibus driver at 11.
At 11 we were loaded into a couple of long tail boats which went a lot faster than the paddle boats and rode for about 15 minutes to a random place where we got off. We were the first boat there and we had no idea what to do as there was no one and nothing there. It wasn't long however until the other boats arrived and the minibus pulled in having driven round.
We got back on the bus and headed back to Bangkok, arriving around 1pm, getting dropped off at Khao San Road. We were hungry so we went in search of food. I got a Pad Thai with chicken from a little woman with a stall on the side of the road. She just whacked it all in a pan in front of my eyes and served it up on a little polystyrene tray. It only cost about £1.20 and was quite tasty. Lauren didn't want to try it so got McDonald's instead. Then we walked back to the hostel to relax for a bit.
At around half 5 we dressed up a little bit nicer than normal and got a taxi to a sky bar, one of many in Bangkok, called Zoom. It was quite a long taxi ride and there was a lot of traffic but we made it there eventually. We went up to the 38th floor of the hotel the bar was in and sat looking out over the city. We just caught the last of the light to take some photos before darkness fell. We only had one alcoholic and one soft drink each, and I didn't even drink mine (it was not nice!). Bangkok is so huge and looked so cool all lit up after dark, but as usual the photos do not do it justice. We got a taxi back around half 8 after admiring the view. Again no one seems to know where the hostel is but the taxi driver managed to find it. We drove through Chinatown which actually had stuff going on. It turns out the map we had is useless and the road it told us was Chinatown central was just a little side road.
We got back to the hostel and both Lauren and I skyped home before going to bed.
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