But i'm glad we made it after all. Especially since i was bringing dad & mom this time.
Reached BKK at noon just in time for a late lunch at MBK... check out lilia's greedy hand interrupting the picture.
and let the spreeing begin haha! linkbridge from MBK to Siam Square surrounds, via Bonanza Mall, a favourite!
Cabbed to Yaowarat for some Chinatown dinner enroute one of my favourite shopping streets in BKK, Khao San Road for literally roadside shopping and a late night massage.
Khao San Road. It's a relatively short stretch of street but for some reason, we always spend hours here. I just love its atmosphere. Its noisy, alive and full of people hanging out along the road. I think it was made popular with the angmohs by Leonardo DiCaprio's The Beach.
Day Two started with breakfast at S&P before riding on the BTS to Chatuchak Weekend Market, for some serious hot & sweaty shopping. No pics cos we were too busy shopping. I absolutely love it here!
(side note: Hey Cheryl, remember this? I found it again! But it wasn't opened yet when i passed by and unfortunately never got to come back) Love the signboard.
Really late lunch at Siam Square (excellent mango salad and even more excellent fried chicken!) after a quick shower back at the hotel. Thanks to Lilia's whatever atas club membership, we stayed at Novotel, right in the heart of Siam Square, just by paying a wee bit more than Asia Hotel, which was one BTS stop away.
Ice-cream at Siam Paragon after our really late lunch even though we were all stuffed cos the air-con shopping malls were so boring there was nothing better to do.
Zipped off to Suan Lum Night Bazaar after less than an hour combined at Siam Discovery, Siam Centre and Siam Paragon and without even making it to Central World this time. Suan Lum Night Bazaar, with its large open air hawker food court used to be bustling with people but with each trip here, the tourist numbers seem to be dwindling more severely than the previous. Kinda sad, really.
Third and final day. Breakfast at a sidewalk cafe in Siam Square, followed by Pratunam Wholesale Market and Platinum Mall which are just across the road from each other.
Pratunam, while unlike Chatuchak, Siam Square & Khao San where you can pick up really nice buys, somehow has a certain local flavour appeal, which i kinda like, even though i don't usually buy anything for myself here.
After running into extra time in the morning, we cabbed back to MBK for a hurried lunch, made it for an hour long thai massage and squeezed in some last minute shopping!
travel buddies: Dad, Mom & Lilia
