Bangkok Trip (Day 2) - Luxurious day

Second Day (24-May-2007)

Today, we booked a private car (Toyota vios) with chauffeur to 3 places from 8am till 4pm. It costs us 1800Baht. After 1 hour plus of travel, we reached somewhere near Damoen Saduak Floating Market. The driver dropped us at a place that we need to take motorboat into the Floating Market. That costs each of us 900Baht, for a private motorboat with shelter for a one hour ride. Along the way, we passed by some houses of the local people and can have a view on how they use the river, such as for brushing teeth. :P

The driver did not allow us to stop at market but bring us to a souvenir shop. We can either buy from boats at the floating market or that souvenir shop.

Hmm.. After the boat ride, we insisted our chauffeur to send us directly to the floating market where we can walk around. There, we can at last enjoy some cheap and nice snacks. When we ask for the boat fee there, it was only 40 Baht!!?? Feel so bad for being cheated!! Please be aware..
Soup noodles for only 15Baht.

Fried dumpling (锅贴) -- 4 for 10 Baht.

Crepe -- 2 for 10 Baht.

1 bunch of banana -- 10 Baht.

Next, we went to the Samphran Elephant Ground & Zoo. Entrance fee is 450Baht per person. Here, you can see crocodiles, elephants and a big orkid collection. The main attraction is the 3 performance of the day. From 12.45pm till 2pm.

Show #1 : Crocodile show. These 2 young men demonstrate some dangerous actions with the crocodiles. Not bad. Show #2: Magic show. If you used to watch magic show, this is not that excited.

Show #3: Elephant performance. Here's some performance done by the elephants and football game for elephant. They are so clever! Can dance some more!

After all these performance, we directly go to Rose Garden, which is about 2km away. Entrance fee is 500Baht per person. The main show here is the cultural performance that described about the life and culture of local people. There are Thai Kick-boxing, dances, martial arts, etc.

Then, we take another hour of ride back to Kao San, the traffic is very jam. Once reached, it's time for food again. We went to a shop nearby and order different type of soup noodles. 30Baht each. There are chilly powder provided. If you can eat spicy, you can add until your clear soup become chilli soup. Very spicy though.

As the memory card for the camera is fulled, we went to a photo shop to load our pictures into CD. 100Baht each, pretty expensive but all the shops offer the same price. After shower and rest for awhile, we took a tut tut to China Town, after bargain, we got to pay 80Baht. Many shops already closed at this hour, about 7pm. Come to China Town, surely is to try their Chinese Hawker food. We had decided to keep our trip to eat hawker food that we can barely get in Malaysia.
First stop is Pork rice (猪脚饭）30baht. Tasty.

Next is Fish Float Soup (鱼漂汤）. 30Baht. Good good. But if you don't eat blood, need to remind the boss not to put in.

At China Town, some of the Thais can understand Chinese. There are many other hawker stall that sells Chinese food such as shark fin soup, bird nest, dessert, etc. There are plenty of restaurant and hawker that sells seafood. The trip back is another tut-tut that we manage to get by 60Baht. As the night is still young, we went for a Foot Massage. 1 hour 180Baht per person. Very relaxing and nice to do before go to sleep. Hehe..