Bangkok Day2

Day2 sightseeing day!  Our hotel was near both the river ferry pier and BTS station.  It was the former we headed to.

JE and SE with a tuk-tuk

Hit our first problem... I had planned this holiday after hubby had completed his radiotherapy sessions and was physically fine.  However since then he had taken a turn for the worse, feeling bad stiffness in his right arm and leg.  He was unsteady despite walking very slowly.  Hence he was totally unprepared for usage of ferries with floating piers, where there was urgency to board and disembark.  Fortunately there happened to be people (either operators or other passengers) available to help.  There were various points he could have had a bad fall.

Come, we help you

The fare was cheap, only 16THB or RM2 each.  But if lesson #1 was not to get scammed at the airport, lesson #2 was this:   You had to go and stand at the desembarkation part of the boat before it reached your destination pier, else it wouldn't stop.  With hubby so shaky on his feet, no way we were thinking of moving around a moving boat!  And that's how we ended up watching our pier go by hahaha.

Managed to find another boat albeit paying extra to get to where we should be, which was Wat Arun-The Temple of Dawn.   

With THB200 tickets  

Hello from Wat Arun!

Then we hit our second problem - the steep stairs to the temple.  Hubby could only manage the short flight up to take the photo below.  Even then he had to descend on his bottom, one step at a time, as there were no stair railings.

Hubby at his closest proximity to temple

Having paid RM100+ admission, we proceeded without hubby.

 

Up!

Wat Arun was beautiful, so intricately set with individual pieces of pottery.

Pretty huh?

Moomin wuz here

We loitered around (getting our money's worth) then headed to the opposite side of the river.  We then walked to Wat Pho, which was another major attraction, but kids weren't interested in visiting another temple.  Well, it was hot and hubby wasn't interested either so... we walked back to the pier.  

  

Heading back

A total of 3 boat journeys with 6 embarkation/disembarkation without any mishaps for hubby.  Phew. Rested in our luxurious digs then headed to 'our' restaurant (name is Nalin's Kitchen) for dinner.

Yums

Bangkok Trip 2025

Just realised it has been a month since my last post.  Work-wise I had been insanely busy as multiple independent things kept popping up for attention.  Plus had to attend to the household as we are still without a maid.  I couldn't wait for.... our holiday in Bangkok!  :)   

Throwback to a month ago when we were planning where to go for the school holiday: Melaka? Traffic jam. Ipoh?  Went there recently.  Genting?  Nothing much to do there.  How about Bangkok?  Heyyy.. why not?  Hubby and me had actually bought air tickets when I discovered JE was on the way.  Fast-forward to the present, JE is already 15 and we could now all go together.  Perfect. 

Arrived!

Then first thing we did was get scammed by the taxi from the airport haha.  While I was still puzzling the THB-MYR conversion rate, agreed to a rate over double what it should be.  Oh well.  Reached our home for 7D6N, Centre Point Plus Silom which was lovely and huge (183m2) with 2 rooms.  

Happily shopped for snacks at the supermarket below. 

Snacks!

We found a dinner place opposite the hotel and would return for the next few nights.  Even with dessert and drink, the bill would come up to less than RM120.

Let's eat

Our first day was as usual a designated "chill day".  :)