In Bangkok and that!!!

Yeah yeah yeah, so we were like in Bangkok and that, we woke up and the mood was good. We had managed to syncronise with the time difference and woke up at 11am, which isn’t that bad for me. We sat down stairs from the guesthouse and I ordered a pancake and some liquidized fruit with ice. We sat eating and drinking when the thought shot across our minds “were in Bangkok, lets do something”. So we decided to check out a temple or something, we looked on the map and realised “HOLY MOLY, lets check out the flipping grand palace, it looked flipping amazing from the picture”. So we trotted off towards the palace (walking is the only way to explore a new city).

We got to the palace and went passed the guards and all and they were charging 350 baht, which is like 7 squid. I was like “I’m not paying that for no mojo palace”. So we stood out side the palace looking confused and wondering what to do, when a man comes up to me who apparently “worked at the university”. We told him “were tourists, its our first day in Bangkok and were waiting to be ripped off”. So he sent us off in two tuk tuks (that were conveniently parked in front of him) to sight some local um… sights.

So we got showed a flipping huge standing Buddha made out of gold, then he took us to a travel agent, we thought this isn’t one of the sights of Bangkok. We went in all dazed and confused and luckily didn’t buy anything because little did we know, the rates were terrible. So we got out the travel agent and back on the tuk tuk, then he took us to another travel agent. We went in, didn’t buy anything and they weren’t too happy about this. We got back in the tuk tuks and said “NO MORE TRAVEL AGENTS”. So the tuk tuk drivers basically dropped us at a street corner telling us to walk a hundred metres ahead to find china town.

We managed to find our way back to the apartment and were bummed that these guys had ripped us, but at least we aint lost any money out of it. We got very pissed that night, drinking cocktails of a street stall, and then when that shut we met a Canadian guy and a Thai girl and bought some Thai whisky and sat on street getting moved on by the police every half hour.

Words: Alan