An exhausting first day in the bustling Bangkok

After an ok’ish night’s sleep we arrived in Bangkok. Chris was adamant not to stay in the backpackers area of Khao San Road so we ended up getting the metro to Lumpini, where we searched out a guestHouse and found a nice one with AC for 400 Baht (£8).

The super-fast and scary escalators

We got ourselves showered then headed off to see the weekend market at Chatuchack. At the hotel they told us a taxi should be 120Bahtr, but when we got in we soon found out it was going to be more like 190Baht, by the time the driver

Chris enjoying an authentic kebab

realised we didn’t want to go for that much he kindly said sorry and let us out, just short of the metro station, result!

Tasty prawns

We took the nice AC metro for 40Baht each all the way to the market. It was huge with over 10’000 stalls and probably 10x as many people.

Karaoke in the market

We strolled around for a few hours savouring some nice food and soaking up the atmosphere, whilst also soaking in sweat.

The underground

It soon became too much and feeling tired from the night on the train we decided to head home. We made it back to the guest House and ended up having some yummy Thai noodle soup before crashing out for the night.

Long queue for the tickets

Charly was very annoying and kept 1) demanding that the AC was turned down and 2) stealing the duvet. Chris did not have a good night…….

An exhausting first day in the bustling Bangkok

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand