AS goes Bangkok-ing (Part 3)

continuation from part 2..

bangkok heat was insane. and we had to endure tons of it the entire friday walking around khao san. jay said that part in the movie the beach where they go shopping for supplies and stuff was shot in khao san. i've always been a fan of the movie but never really figured out where it was geographically. when we got to the place, i thought the place was pretty foreigner-ized. it was teeming with foreigners. myself included. haha! so the prices around the place was a little bit steep than what i was expecting. we figured we'd just grab lunch and head off somewhere else for some more bangkok-ing.

yes, monks shop too. don't discriminate.

so do safari women. bangkok is random that way.

havaianas bangkok-ized.

khao san.

jay and mish printed out a list of places where we could eat. thanks to that, we didn't seem that lost. or so we thought. took us quite a while to get to that place where the guide said was good. food was probably good. service was horrible. we got there a few minutes past eleven but we still got shooed away. they said lunch won't be served 'til around 12. we were starving and we weren't willing to wait out for some restaurant to open when there was literally a handful more of other restaurants around.

so we left for some other restaurant. i'd be damned for forgetting what it was called. it was probably some foreigner-friendly bangkok term.

coke speaks thai

jay bought a new lomo-kit in bangkok. i borrowed the fish eye lens and held it against cy's lens. it seemed like it worked out perfectly fine. if not for the part where i accidentally dropped the lens....... on my lap.

pad thai number something.

left khao san for MBK. we figured it'll probably best to try out all possible means of public transportation. and by all, we mean including even the river channels! i suck big time because i can't even remember what their main river thoroughfare is called. but that's where most of the river ferries were. so we thought we'd try it out too!

the only decent group shot we had in cy.

because we're nosy observant bitches, diane and mish noticed this girl in the opposite end of the ferry sporting a very health bush. on her! yes. belay that. i meant bushes. bushes i tell you!

meanwhile, tin and lads were being scolded by old thai people for no clear reason. lads didn't seem to mind.

i paid for this shot. the mother behind the kid made me. i shit you not. welcome to bangkok extortion. i was more than happy to take part in it though.

and so the obligatory train ride to MBK happened.

find the lady boy.

mcdo sawadee's!

MBK.

the mall wasn't that bad. i've seen better ones. but then again, you don't really go to bangkok for the malls. so don't blame them. i bought a couple of pairs of shoes here and realized the day after i was being utterly stupid. prices were double of what they could've been in chatuchak. shopping learnings. walked around for a couple of hours and then called it a day. we had to sleep. we practically had none the previous night. so we headed back to the hotel.

of course it had to be via the tuktuk.

food-to-go. literally.

wannaporn? wanaporn. no no. that's her. wanaporn. she's wanaporn.

our hotel was decent. and we loved it. our beat up bodies loved it. never complained a minute. so we slept the rest of the afternoon off (which was about a couple of hours more). 


...to be continued.