Random Thoughts

Our Third day in BKK was the busiest! We woke up at 5:30am and had our breakfast in the hotel at 6am. Good thing, they served breakfast at exactly 6am. We got a package tour again but this time from the hotel. The van picked us up at exactly 6:30am. And we will be going to Floating Market, Samphram Zoo, and Rose Garden. It was a whole day affair!
Oh, not to mention that our flight back to Manila was at 1:30am the next day.

Floating Market

It was a 2-hour drive from BKK city to the floating market. I guess Thailand is known for their floating market. It is one of their tourist attractions there. We got there around 9:30 am and a boat (which is part of the package I guess) brought us to the floating market. It was just a short travel to the main market. Lots of people were there but to be honest, I wasn't that impressed. We paid for 150 Baht each to be able to really experience buying in the floating market. The actual buying was hard, and not to mention the bargaining. The "bangkero" wouldn't stop even if there were fruits/products that we wanted to buy. All in all I didn't like the experience. I would rather buy in the market that's stable and huge. LOL!

Samphram Elephant Park

We finally had our lunch at Samphram Elephant Park around 1pm. It was another long drive from the market and we had three stop-overs, the elephant ride, the cobra show (which we didn't bother to watch), and the wood carving shop (which we found very interesting). We had a buffet lunch. As usual, it was Thai/Asian cuisine. I can't believe that I missed Filipino food already on our third day there! We only had 20-25 mins for lunch because according to our tour guide, we were running out of time! Haaay. But anyway, we were able to make it to the elephant show.

The show was amazing. Alex would have loved it if she were there. I was amazed at how Thais trained the elephants, they can really understand instructions and they knew that a lot of people were watching them. For me, this one is sulit! :)


The elephants did a great job!





Another show was held after the elephant show, and they called it the "Cobra Wrestling Show". It was short and funny. I loved it too, too bad, we were just standing the whole show. Good thing, it was short.




These crocodiles are really scary!



Rose Garden

We watched the Thai Folk Dance, their Wedding ceremony, and a whole lot of traditions at the mini amphitheater of Rose Garden. We were a bit late for the show, good thing this is just near the Samphram Elephant Park. What Hubby and I liked in the show was their "multiple" tinikling. Very similar to our tinikling but there were I think 4 pairs who were dancing. Galing!

After the show, another elephant show was shown at the garden. Hubby and I didn't watch it anymore since we decided to just explore the area and try to find something interesting.




So, that's it for our whole day tour outside BKK. I will have to get back for my final post about our last minute shopping at the mall, our last dinner at BKK, and our trip to the airport! (*wink*)