Monday, November 26, 2007

Bangkok trip - Day 1

Day 1

Met kh chris and ryan at the T 1 airport for our flight by air asia to bangkok .chris was surprised that the plane was brand new airbus cause his normal work flight within asia are pretty old planes.

The journey was about an hour with no hick ups along the way .at the new Suvarnabhumi airport . we realized how the press reported that it was half complete. i noticed in away the walls are not painted. perhaps its the raw industrial look thing quite in trend. the immigration as usual has the camera to take photos of visitors.well to some it may be invasion of privacy but then it helps interpol to identify and apprehend criminals.

After exiting from the airport we were picked up by chris friend suvarbhukit . he brought us to a small open air shop that sells fantastic tasting pathai noodle not to mention the delicious bo bo cha cha like desert with a boiled egg in it. sk toold us that we are just in time for the loi krathong festival this sat which is a lantern or light festival. theres fireworks and releasing of lanterns on the chao phraya river. cool i think to myself

It took us 40 mins to drive to our hotel due to the peak hour jam at soi ari . The hotel name is what else my house does sound abit cheesy but was well worth the value only sgd 26 per night. we hurried changed up and move out to ashok BTS station . Drop by soi cowboy a place full of ago go bar . Drinks are at 108 baht which was very cheap.

Fish and chip shop .. heard its famous

We then head down to a fish and chips shop which almost identical to the ones in england. heard that the owner is from the uk. next it was exploration of the hippest pub around soi 11 which is the bed supper club . also scouted for Qbar but unfortunately we could not find it.

Bed supper club.. almost went in.. 600 baht per entry

The night finally ended at 2am with a taxi back from sukhumvit.

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