- Bangkok
- Currency: Thai Baht
- Taking public transport for $4AUD V a $30 taxi ride
- Beginning our trip with 2 hour massages
- Going to River Vibe rooftop restaurant/bar (review to come)
- getting lost down dodgy looking alleyways and eventually asking a teenage boy to show us how to get there
- Waking up at 7:30AM feeling super perky
- The beginning of Kim’s bargaining adventures with Tuk Tuk drivers – from 100 baht to 60 baht
- Wat Mahathat – a temple with a local market along the street selling religious items such as wooden carvings, necklaces, Buddha statues (most things priced for locals at 50 baht)
- Buddha Day celebrations at the temple – free food and drink
- The time we almost got scammed by someone who looked like a Disney villain out of a cartoon:
- A middle-aged man with long fingernails and a moustache curled up at the ends
- Seemed nice at first, giving us advice on local sights and drawing us a map on how to get to a local pier instead of the tourist pier, then offering to take us as it was “on his way home”
- After 10 minutes of walking we asked if there was anything else to do, as we did not want to spend 2000 baht on a boat ride, only to have him say that he could get us a discount for 500 baht instead
- After many “no thank you”s, having him completely change his demeanour and eyes darken to tell us “fuck you!” and glaring at us as we walked away
- Having many other people offer us advice and help, and responding with a firm “no, thank you” afterwards out of fear it was another scam
- Meeting the group for our orientation meeting and off for our first group dinner at a local Thai restaurant
- The owner studied in Monash University and was friends with our tour guide thus we got special treatment (yaaas)
- Rum & Coke – “buy 1 get 1 free” for 100 baht
- the beginning of our attempt at finding me a husband in Asia
travelling with yeomomma 