Thailand 2018/2019 - Bangkok
Hooray!!! Its the time of the year where our family can get together and go for a holiday overseas. As we had just came back from Europe 5 months ago, we decided to do a nearby trip to Thailand. Besides the usual shopping and eating in Bangkok, we had included the less travelled and accessible Khao Kho and Khao Yai into our itinerary.
This Thailand blog consist of 3 parts - Bangkok, Khao Kho and Khao Yai. In Bangkok, our mode of transport includes Grab Car, BTS & MRT. For Khao Kho and Khao Yai, you may either hire a car with a driver or just rent from one of the many car rental companies available online. We decided to rent a car to self drive in both Khao Kho and Khao Yai.
Loading up our luggage onto the Grab car.
Arriving at the airport after a 30 minutes ride.
Did not bring too many luggage in case the rental car is unable to accommodate them.
Why am I the one always doing the pushing? Where is Viv?
As we are early for the flight, we went to Swensens for a bite.
Harry Potter Fair at the Airport with games stores...
Souvenirs Stores..
Displays..
Lego figures of characters in Harry Potter movies....
Props from the movie....
I want one of these !!!!!!!!!!
Not forgetting the Howard Express...Choo choo.....
Wait for me!!!!!!!!
Arriving at the Gate.
Time to board.
Our ride for the next few hours.
Our in-flight meal arrived shortly after take off. Beef steak with rice...
and Chicken with Noodle.
Let's tuck in.
Arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport after a 2 hours plus flight.
Viv went missing again....
Finally she is here!
Waiting for our Grab Taxi to fetch us to our hotel in Pratunam.
While waiting for the check-in processing...
We roamed around at the lobby area...
Viv accessing the hotel?
Voilà !!!!! Our hotel room for the next few nights, there is a living room...
..and a kitchenette with a small dinning area.
Two comfy king-sized beds.
The bath room with a shower and a bath tub.
It's about 8pm plus local time after we settled into our room. So we headed for the nearby Palladium Night Market for supper.
It's still fairly crowded at that time with many stores selling local products, sports wears and so on.....
We decided to try the Phad Thai, Oyster Omelette & BBQ squid.
After supper, we walk a bit around the area and headed back to the hotel.
THE 2ND DAY
THE 2ND DAY
Fruit provided for the hotel guests at the lobby in the morning.
There is also some beverage provided as well as a vending machine.
A lot of area in Bangkok will be covered by foot on this trip.
Price wise is quite similar to Singapore.
First breakfast in Bangkok..
Did some walking after the breakfast at the outdoor stores before we proceed to Platinum Mall.
Viv will never miss out on any Bubble Tea opportunities.
Fuji Japanese Restaurant on the sixth floor is gone...so we had our lunch at the Food Court instead.
Our favorite Starbucks beverage <3
In the evening, took Grab to Asiatique.
Lots of shops inside Asiatique.
Nice soap stall.
Nice soap stall.
Haha found this which is only available in Thailand to buy back as souvenir.
There's a Carousel there.
And also a Ferris Wheel.
So randomly went into this eatery and we had Crab Omelette,
Tom Yam Soup,
Pandan Leaf Chicken,
And Salted egg Sotong.
Not forgetting the Chang Beer.
There were lots of lighting displays.
And many more.....
Free Ferry service to Asiatique is also available at Saphan Taksin (S6) station.
Grab our way back to the hotel.
THE 3RD DAY
Gone to the massage parlor downstairs for foot reflexology after whole day of shopping
THE 3RD DAY
Waiting at the lobby for our taxi to bring us to china town for dim sum brunch.
Daddy 's favorite duck rice.
We ordered both dry and soup wanton noodle...
..fried asparagus with prawns.
And of course dim sum with milk tea.
After breakfast, we had a tour of the china town.
Came across durians that are bigger than our heads lol.
You can find all sort of stuffs....
The famous Golden Gate Bridge replica.
Bought mango sticky rice to try.
Yum yum.
The Bear is taller than Viv.
Found the Fuji Japanese Restaurant that shifted here.
Nice and Cheap.
After dinner, took the BTS to Central Festival.
Bought BTS Token.
One for each of us.
However, it was raining heavily when we reached. Waited for more than 1 hour but the rain did not subside...so we decided to change venue.
Not able to grab due to the heavy downpour, we got another set of BTS cards and head to Siam Paragon.
Lots of nice soap here.
Pie Face Tart.
Finally we are here.
Daddy & Viv queuing to place order.
Here we are. Our After You dessert - thick toast with ice-cream.
And thai milk tea bingsu. Yummy :D
Lighting displays can be found outside the walkway also.....
THE 4TH DAY
Stayed this place for few hours hoping to find the soap holder but to no avail D:
The place was quite big and crowded as well.
You can find all sort of stuffs here...Beatles
Coke cans or bottles collections...
Cute key chains...
As papa is not feeling well, we bought some masks from this stall.
As papa is not feeling well, we bought some masks from this stall.
Viv bought this hat and put it on instantly to make her buy worthwhile :P
Haha she fully utilized the newly bought hat.
Arriving at Union Mall after a 20 mins walk.
There was a Fair at the Atrium.
Got nice ear rings there.
Thirsty after all the walking.
Had another Japanese Meal for dinner.
After dinner, grab back to the hotel to pack our stuffs to prepare our journey to Khao Kho.
0 comments