anyways we were stopped by this 'helpful' tuk tuk driver (who said he is a teacher at nearby sch) that told us to go to some wat and then to a govt handicraft fair ..he even recommended a tuk tuk for us.
anyways we knew it is the bloody gem scam when we arrived at the wat.
it was a tiny wat in a school. but since we were on the ride, we got the guy to take us to Vinnamek palace as I wanted to take a pic of the palace.
after that, he dropped us near a plaza frequented by Thais. it's like a wholesaler place ..
our tuk tuk ride costs 20Bht and took us 1-2 hrs. anyways after that, we decided to walk to democracy monument.
it took us almost 1 hr to get there. at some point, I told jake that we are on the wrong direction because there's not a single signage that shows the monument...he said to stick with where we are going because whatever direction that i said is correct is usually the total opposite :P hate to said he was right. we got to democracy monument which is a huge monument in the middle of a round abouts. interesting thing to note about this roundabout, it has a traffic light on the round about. HOW RARE.
some interesting things (ie light stand, interesting sculpture we came along on this governmental 'avenue'. i call it governmental as it has all the government buildings there.
finally the democracy monument. check out when it's free of traffic and when it's with traffic.
we then walked to khao san...and I went to used the most expensive toilet in bangkok at this hotel...it is a user-pay toilet ...actually it's only 5bht but considering you get to ride on tuk tuk for 20bht and MBK mall charge 1-2bht for toilet, 5bht is a rip off.
khao san road. it's the mecca for all backpackers. we decided to go to the KING's PALACE since it was close by according to the map...we walked for what seems like forever (20minutes) and finally reach the palace but we found out the palace is closing in 5minutes.
so i decided that i wanted to go to the pak klong talat since it's open 24 hrs a day.
luckily we could take the boat to pak klong talat ..anyways the majority part of pak klong talat is a vegatable market. we walked and jake kept prompting me and asked me where are the flowers as all we see were veggies and more veggies :P finally we did come to the flower section and there were really lots and lots of flower. there were rows of flower shops...
bridal bouquet are for sale as if people were selling kueh..but mostly is flowers that people use for worship at the temple ..pak klong talat is also the place where hotels, restaurant source their flowers from.
baby roses sold in big bunches. i didn't ask for the price but i think they are less than 100bht.
this dendrobium orchid intrigues me. i have never seen blue dendrobium before. on closer inspection, i was disappointed to find that the blue was spray painted, and so is the rest of the pink and orange dendrobiums.
what you are seeing are not veggies. we are used to seeing bunches of kangkong wrapped up by the veggie seller in the pasar. here, it's actually stems of baby roses all bunched up and thrown to the lorry to be delivered somewhere.
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