100 Year old Market

17122016

Another early day for fighting Bangkok traffic. Ate the buffet, Laura has been eating Eggs Benedict nearly every day, and i've been rotating through sausage patty sammitches, and yogurt/granola.

This tour was not actually taking us into Bangkok, but to Klong Suan area. The tour guide was great. Her English was very good, and she knew lots of things about Thailand, and Bangkok and local social/cultural nuances.

We took another river tour, this on smaller boats through smaller canals

We saw more of the “local” life here, people fishing, and living on the river/canals.

We were taken to a market that was built up on stilts over the water.



We wandered around, and took pictures of the cats that were around. This market was big enough to absorb 40-some Western Tourists, so it was more comfortable than the time in Cambodia. We walked around and saw all the ware, paying extra attention to the foods. We were hesitant to eat anything on account of our soft-american tummies.

The bus picked us up right outside the market, and took us to a temple deeper in the city.

this was a really cool temple the Wat Sathon Wararam Worawihan (wiki link), full of people making devotions to whatever buddhist incarnation they needed to to get whatever ends they needed. And around the temple were all the shops selling the specific offerings for said devotions, be it eggs, flowers, incense, or trinkets.

After the temple we were taken to a Spa Resort outside the city for lunch. The food was pretty good, the guide warned us that Thai food was very hot, though we didnt find it to be too hot. We should have learned to temper our hopes, these guides are used to dealing with white-bre(a)d westerners, not spice chasing twentysomethings.

Again we were all about the WiFi in the hotel lobby.

The bus then took us back to the boat relatively early, as the next port was a ways away.

We were back in time for the various Trivia games, attended the Gala night in the Dining Room with our new Australian freinds. The food and company was great.

After dinner we played more trivia with said australians, stuck around to chat more with a third couple (these ones American) before going to bed.