Thursday, January 11, 2007>
well updating now as promised....
you know most people says tha a picture worth a thousand words..... so i'm going to present to you all(whoever know this blog existed), the photo essay of my family holiday to bangkok... do enjoy as there isn't refund of the ticket if you did like it....
the christmas at Singapore changi international airport....
the christmas tree at bangkok new Suvarnabhumi international airport... (note the difference in size between the 2 trees...)
The views from my hotel room....
i shared the room with my sis, my parents had the room next door.... my bed is the one in the foreground..right in front of the TV!!....but truly my sis's bed is better... also got a good view from the tv but also the great view of the outside world....
well only one word can use to describe the this hotel room... BIG...in this picture, the living room is behind me, the bedroom is on the left of me, in the fornt, the first turn to the left is the storage area, the end of the corridor to the left again is the bath room...
the living room...
the great views from the hotel's observation deck....
you must have wonder what kind of hotel that has a observation deck... it none other than the Thailand's tallest builing.. the Baiyoke Sky Hotel.....
some facts:
- total 88 storey high
- the main lobby is at the 18th storey
- a 4 star hotel
- 673 hotel rooms altogether
- sited in the middle of the down town area...(right outside the hotel is full of shoppings)
my mon and sis.....
my pa and mum...the 'toway' and 'toway-nu'
the night views from my room....ok i admit.. my photo taking skill isn't any where near good....
quick knee down and pray....
this may look like a palace but its actually the royal temple...its big.....and what you know.. there is some large stone figtures standing by some of the door... some of them looks like the chinese 'door gods' (translate it to chinese word for word)... and guess what.. those WERE made by the chinese... during the late Qing empire era...as a gift to thailand....there is even one figture that wears a top hat and used a cane overall looked very western.. the guide said that it is made by the chinese to depict marco polo....believe it or not....
i don't remember what these were called.. but they have the same function as a tomb stone.. and such big ones were built by the past kings of Thailand....however these did not contain any ashes....
the famous 'sleeping' Buddha
another famous landmark.. the four face buddha...the picture a bit blur?.. thats because there is too much smoke from all those joksticks that was burning...
one of the newest shopping centre in downtown bangkok ..its big, and beautiful...its so new that most shops wasn't ready yet....however i'm done with my shopping in others shopping centres already...
well when booking the Baiyok sky hotel my floks feel that we may visit other places so we didn't book the hotel till the end of our stay... however we changed our minds when we reached the hotel.. we wanted to extent our stay.. but its fully booked!! 673 rooms and its fully booked...-.-"
well with no other choice we when looking for other hotels with the help of the travel angency and got the Royal Princess Hotel....and much smaller.. but its grand... quite grand.... with 50 years of history....the above is my room..as again parents is right next door...
went to the floating market... first by tour mini bus (1and 1/2 hrs ride) then a short nice trip by the 'floating bus' above...
on the floating bus...
the floating market...
after the floating market we went to a snake farm when they had a snake show...nice...
the thailand cobra forced to insert its teeth into a cup in order to extract the venom......anyone thristy? want a drink?
don't be fooled by this cute little thing...
it have snakes for lunches....however this is only a show the snakes are put in for a short while to show how deadly is 'tiny little thing'..in the picture... the animal is heading for the snake's head...orch...
one man ...VS... three snakes....
and man wins.....2 caught by hand.. the last one by mouth.....wow.......
well thats it for my trip to bangkok..it started on the 21st and i'm back by the 25th(christmas!!).... there are some other things i had done there.. like shopping...and the transsexual show.... however i didn't take any pictures of it... so might as well omit it...
well thats it for now...it took me 3 hrs to make this...hope u like it.. thank you for ready and looking... :]
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2:30 PM
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