Wednesday, December 22, 2010

My 1st trip -To The Land of Smile Day 2 (Part 2)

The Temple of Dawn

The manager uncle fetched us to the exit of the temple and called a Tuk Tuk for us. He told the driver where we are going and when the driver told us the price it cost, he helped us to bargain.

Thai girl looking in The Exotic Center
The Exotic Center is totally not what I thought previously. I thought it is a manufacturer/factory however in contrast, it is like a shopping mall with air conditional, more than twenty saleswomen, with luxury decoration and thousand of jewelery. I looked at the price tag. It is obviously not a place for me, but not Karen. She has bought a ring there.
We have our lunch at the third floor in The Exotic Center, after the high recommended by the saleswoman who served Karen. We were asking any nice Tomyam around the center and we got a good news from her that the tomyam at the third floor is the local one. 
Local Curry
Besides, she is the one who told us that if we were going to order Tomyam in Thailand, we have to specific tell the vendor to add spice and sour. This is because most of the tourists could not drink spice thus Thai vendors change the recipe in order to cater the tourists.
However, to our disappointment, the aunty in third floor did not cook Tomyam that day but only curry. We decided to stay and taste the curry, since the saleswomen highly recommended the stall. And it didn't disappointed us though, it tasted good and original. The lunch in The Exotic Center cost us 130 baht.
Another notable benefit of The Exotic Center is that they provide free transportation after you purchase their jewelery.
Grand Palace
We got to Grand Palace then for free. Karen spent 350 baht each person which is 700 baht totally. And followed by Wat Pho where we just simply walked through as we were running out of time. We were rushing for the boat as it ends the service at 5pm.

I managed to capture the view of the land from the top
We took a cross over boat to the front land where the Temple of Dawn, Wat Arun located. The entrance fees is 50 baht. I climbed up to the top and took some photos. At there we found Thailand really got many fruits stalls around.

The friendly fruit seller
We took the boat then and got down at Ratchawong Pier. Our destination for this time is Yaowarat, the China Town. Karen's friend, Nicole told her that we can have meal at a restaurant called Nam Sing. Hence we asked everyone around, just to get to Nam Sing. I enjoyed the process of asking for direction. 

This dessert is really notable!
Besides, we found a really tasty local dessert at the road side. It is really impressed both of us that we missed it after the day.

The defend wall of Grand Palace


Grand Palace
China Town in Bangkok

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