Saturday, March 8, 2014

When I got on the plane in Hong Kong I was already so tired that I fell asleep already before we took off, but I managed to sleep only one hour because of the flight attendants serving food. The flight to Bangkok took 3 hours and we landed around midnight. Because the Sunvarnabhumi airport was far away from the city I decided that it was better to book a hotel nearby and continue travelling to the city the following day in the morning. I wasted around one hour at the airport in order to get a shuttle bus to the hotel, its name was Convenient Resort Bangkok Sunvarnabhumi airport and one night costed around 15 Eur. Finally I had to take a shared taxi to the hotel, I paid 150 Baht (around 4 Eur). I got there late at night, it was around 1:30am. The staff at the reception desk looked friendly but either they didn't speak English well or they spoke with such a strong accent that it was difficult for me to understand them. I appreciated a lot when I got to the bed after such an exhausting journey. I was satisfied with the room, I ever had an air conditioning there but I turned it off because it disturbed me. 
When I got up and I had to connect on the internet to find out a way to my host. There was a woman at the reception desk who spoke English well, but she was very unfriendly and every time I asked her something she made it clear I was bothering her. I was going to the Pinklao shopping center to meet a couchsurfer there for lunch, I wanted to take a taxi, but the driver told me that the price was 800 baht which I didn't agree with so he took me to the airport and I found a bus there. I spent more than one hour in order to get to the Pinkalo shopping center, I had a lunch there with a couchsurfer and then I took a bus to the Silom area, I stayed with an Indian couchsurfer in the hotel Mahonra. I got there in the evening when it was already dark, we didn't have any plans but we got some food in the local restaurant nearby and then my host introduced me his Indian friend and we went to see the ping-pong show. Regarding the fact that it is a sensitive topic I am not going to give much details (most people who have visited Thailand know what it is about or they can find it on the internet). My host told me there were a lot of scams but we chose a relatively good place where we paid the entrance 300 baht and then we were supposed tips for each performace. However, it didn't really leave any impression on me. I read reviews where people claimed that they found this kind of performace shocking or humilitiang, but I didn't find anything particular there, the lights were dim and I didn't get to see much as well as there were many people around and it was noisy.
The following day my Indian host was working but his friend took me to the Grand Palace, the ticket costed 500 baht. It was a beautiful place, we took many photos and afterwards we went to a vegetarian restaurant. The Indian guy, who accompanied me, told me he never ate meat, but in this restaurant I can find many vegetables prepared like meat. We ordered something which was supposed to taste like crab, but the taste actually didn't remind the taste of meat. The food was too spicy for me, but I ate it because I was hungry, however it was a mistake because I was sick for the rest of the day. Then I returned to the hotel to meet my host, he invited some couchsurfers there and later we joined a couchsurfing meeting and we played pool.


My host and his friend were both busy on Thursday, so I ventured out by myself, I found a tuk-tuk, the driver took me to the shop with clothes and jewellery and then I wanted to go to the China town to get durian fruit. I got a lot of attention while eating durian, some tourist made a comment that I was brave, but I found it delicious and I didn't mind the smell at all. Here is the video of me eating durian fruit.
When I got to the port I took a ferry on the other side of the river, I walked aimlessly for some time but then I decided to take a tuk-tuk to the Kao San Road because someone told me that I could find a fried scorpion there. When I got there I bought a scorpion for 50 baht (it was overcharged price, the proper one would be around 20 baht). I also got a lot of attention there, this is the link to the video where I am eating fried scorpion. The taste was nothing special, it was just salty. Then I bought fried noodles also for 50 baht and I found other kinds of fried insects for 20 baht, I also tried that one. I returned to the hotel then and my host took me to a meeting in some disco club, where he introduce me a film-maker. 
On Friday I had still some time in the morning because my flight to Singapore was leaving around 6pm, so I wanted to some other temples but the taxi driver didn't speak English well and he took me to some remote area of Bangkok. There was nothing interesting, only a market and a shopping center, so I spent some time watching fruit, vegeatables and sea food on the market and then I had to take a taxi to a hotel. My flight was leaving from the Don Muang airport, I was afraid I wouldn't make it on time due to the traffic jam but it took only one hour to get there because we were driving on the highway. 

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