Flashback: Good Girls at Bangkok Part 2
Day 2: Temple’s tour
with Kitty. Malls tour.
Visiting temples should be one of the main parts of your
itinerary during your visit to Thailand. On our 2nd day, we allotted
our time with all the temples that we can visit within a day. Wandering around,
I was amazed by how the people of Thailand worked and maintain all of those
structures and Buddha’s. And they said, detail by detail, they worked on them
by hand. Amasas!!!
Some photos I captured during the tour:
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On the left is Kitty, our tour guide who is really kind. He takes
care of us, even argue with some Thai in circumstances when they take advantage
of some tourists. He explains everything about every history and story of Buddha
and temples. It’s one of my favorite parts when travelling because I get to
know the cultures of the place I’m visit.
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Wat Traimit. It is where the solid golden Buddha is seated.
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This is the solid golden Buddha inside Wat Traimit. Kitty
said that there was an unimpressive Buddha in the 13th-14th
centuries coated with stucco and plaster. But when that Buddha was about to be transferred
to another temple, accidentally, the gold hidden underneath was revealed. As
they opened the feet of the Buddha, they discovered that it was filled of gold.
Later on they formed the gold’s into a solid golden Buddha.
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The Reclining Buddha inside Wat Pho.
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The Reclining Buddha inside Wat Pho.
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Around Wat Pho
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Kitty while praying and giving praise
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The view of Grand Palace in the field.
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Feet of the Standing Buddha
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Day 3: Chatuchak Market!
And since our third day is a Saturday, it is a very good day
to go to Thailand’s weekend market. Yay! This is the largest market in Thailand
where more than 8000 stalls sell their goods. There are a lot of people going
to this place, you might think that you might get lost in a very huge market as
this, but don’t worry because you can get a map of the entire market from the
walking policemen around. Also, the entire market is grouped into different
sections numbered in series, like Soi 1, Soi 2, Soi 3, etc. and you can see
those numbers in streets so you would know where you are in the map.
There’s a funny story though, when I lost Rose and Rita, and
we have no contact with each other. I have been waiting for 30 minutes in our
meeting place, but they did not come so I panicked. XD What I did was I went to
the paging station and asked Rose and Rita to come over. That was really funny
because the two cannot understand that their names are being called because of
the Thai accent. So what I did was, I asked the crew that I’ll be the one to speak
in the mic. J) We
laughed so hard when we met. LOL!
Anyway, I wasn’t able to get a lot of pictures in Chatuchak
because we were busy and the place is very crowded. Here are some pictures I
got.
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Foot spa to relieve the pain from walking!
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Around Chatuchak
Day 4: Elephant ride.
Floating Market. More malls.
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My favorite part, feeding the elephant with banana
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With our tour guide
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Bangkok Village
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That’s all that
happened in our DIY Bangkok travel. Do
you think we enjoyed the whole tour? YES! We did! And I’m missing the foods. I’ll
post the foods we had later on. :)
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