You read a lot of things about scamming in Thailand and you always think it won’t happen to you, but they are so clever and must be able to spot someone that has just arrived! We new it was a scam when he told us everywhere was closed as everyone was going to pray at the palace. Another guy turned up who was a tuk tuk driver and he started to pretend argue with him making out he was bartering a good deal for us. We knew that was a load of crap so we were just strong and walked away.
We go to the river and stupidly bought a tourist ticket for 150b when we worked out afterwards that a single trip on the non tourist boat was only 14b!! Anyway at least we had learnt and it did mean we could get on any of the boats that came along. We jumped on the boat and it whizzed along, such great views of the city – it’s definitely a great way to travel around the city.
We arrived at Ratchawong Pier and headed to china town. It was everything I had expected it to be. Mental like the souks in Marrakech and every smell imaginable. From Jasmine incense to fish to urine. Stalls and food everywhere!
We also stopped and got some yum dim sum – the place was bustling and was just awesome. It was really hot, but we didn’t care. You can tell from the steam on the camera!
Back on the boat to Tha ten pier and got another ferry across to the other side of the river for 3b to visit Wat Arun.
It was awesome – very Gaudi-esk but more spectacular. Althought the stairs were so steep I only made it up one flight as I wasn’t sure I could get down again. Dave went all the way to the top though while I waited. The view was still amazing from where I was.
The view from the top (thanks Dave!)
We headed back over the river on the 3b ferry towards the reclining Buddha. It was amazing! There were a lot of people there, but it was still worth going and we managed to get some great shots as you can see!
We got our first tuk tuk back to the hotel – we think we got a bit ripped off but it was so much fun, we didn’t care!
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