Holiday, no stress, no burden, freedom!!!slacking, i like it! really free these few days, sleep and dream alot alot alot........
I can't think straight anymore!!!
Browsed through all the pictures i had took during trips i went past 1 year, realised that i still have a few post i didnt write bout, bout my previous trip. though was long time ago, still fresh in my mind.I told myself, i have to post something and share with u guys b4 i go for my next backpack trip,Hanoi in June.=D
Bare with me, is going to be a loooooooong post.
Thailand...We spent 10 days over there. Me, Pei Ye, Zhi Jian and Yeow Hong, 4 of us.
Bangkok was the place we touched down, sky is turning dark on the way we heading to Kao Shan Road. We searched around for our hostel, it was drizzling.
Noisy, crowded.Kao Shan Road is the place where all the backpackers around the world will not miss in Bangkok.Pubs, backpacker hostel, food!!! Definitely is a backpackers' heaven!!!
Not all the hostel was cheap, finally we went into this Rambutri Hostel, a street behind Kao Shan Road. The price was cheap for around RM 25 per pax/nite, it was late n we were tired carrying our backpacks around. We decided to settle down.
Squatting at the streets, we ordered a plate of Pattai- a must eat Thai delicacy.
After having dinner at a road side food stalls, we decided to go to Grand Palace to have a night view. It was really a loooooong way, we walk n walk, following the map, the streets were quiet, really quiet...n almost 4 km we walked!!!
All the way to Grand Palace n Wat Pho.Golden, Royal..
We then walked all the way back to our hostel, it was late nite by then. Though the music from the pub next door was loud, I fall a sleep like a pig.
I woke up by the rain drop, it was 430 am, only then i realized Ye cant sleep well, sitting upward, she was afraid....haha cause the hostel though was clean but is kinda creepy.We packed our stuff and planned to take a cab downstair...but hell no!!all the cab drivers tried to con us, highly priced and refused to run by meter. We then walk pass few streets to the main road, manage to hike on a cab with running meter to the Morcit Bus Station. The sky was still dark when we reached the bus station. I was quite amazed, the bus station was so much more cleaner and well-maintained than our bus station over here.You won't get loss except u r blind, signs are all over,you wouldn't miss it!!! and you wouldn't get a smell of exhause smoke like wat u get in pudu. I love there bus station, maybe it was early the morning, it was quiet and air was fresh.
We bought a cheaper bus ticket to Kanchanaburi province, an hour ride, west from Bangkok.the bus stop at almost every bus stop, without aircon, I still manage to fall asleep. The bus was crowded with school kids, high school students, then it was empty again.Surprisingly, some of those kids took almost 45 mins to their school...n i like their uniform, fit and sexy^.^. We reached Kanchanaburi,a very old and mini bus stop, alot of the Samlor( a 3 wheel bicycle) drivers offered us a ride to the hostel.
Samlor.
They were bad in english, we couldn't understand them, but they really tried so hard to convince us that they will bring us to cheap budget hostel. The thing is, the Samlor is too tiny to carry us and our luggage along and it will be really a pain for the Samlor cycler...I feel bad for them. June was a low peak season in Thailand, not much tourists around, the town was not crowded at all, those involved in tourist sector, like those Samlor cycler, have not much business, they have to chase every single customer to make a deal, in a very low bid price.
Just as we refused and walk to the main road to hike a Songtaew, we heard a man speaking fluent english calling us to stop. He was loud, and we only could hear him cause we only understand him. We made a deal, the driver promised us to drive us till we found a suitable hostel and we ride up the Songtaew.
The driver and the Songtaew.
We doesnt need to go further more after seeing the first guest house. Blue Star Guest House, it was so perfect!!!Clean, cheap, big and comfortable!!!We got 2 rooms for Rm 20 per pax. A part of the guesthouse was under construction and the compound was really big, just beside the River Kwai.
Well, Kanchanaburi, is a historical town, full with saddening past. The movie " The bridge on the River Kwai'' made the town famous and the Death Railway, a 415km railway linking Thai and Burma, which was built during WW2 is a place u must see!!Till now, trains still operating from Thai to Burma.During WW2, The Japanese army forced elites caught from Australia, America, Britain, and Asia, prison, torture and force them to build the Death Railway. Those caught, were brutally treated without humanity, lost their life. A part of the bridge was bommed down by the Allied and rebuilt.
On the Bridge over River Kwai
Tutu tutu...the train did has this typical loud 'tutu' train sound.
The train in the museum, it was used to transport weapons and construction metarials during WW2 from Burma to Thai by the Japanese Army.
The war cementary, very peaceful and serene.
At nite, we walk to the pasar malam, have a plate of 'oo jian', meat ball, and we spotted an eat all u can buffet steamboat + bbq stall at the road side, full with the locals over there, wao...it must be delicious then. =D
Oo Jian, Fried ooysters with egg.Ohh, nyammy!
Meat balls
Zhi Jian and Ye
Me n ye was so excited to found all sort flavours of Lays potato chips in 7-11 that we can't find over here.
That nite, i slept like a pig and the next day Ye told me she couldnt get into sleep, thinking of all the scary pictures in the war musuem and the Death Railway.Haha...
The next morning, we couldn't get a bus outside our hostel, and after asking the locals, we walked a loooong way to the main road. But there was still not many vehicles passing by in the early morning,the streets were still quiet. Few bus refused to stop though we waved like crazy ppl.luckily we managed to stop a bus heading to the Kanchanaburi bus station after like half an hour waving to each vehicles passing by.>.<
We took an hour ride bus to Ayutthaya, another province situated north of Bangkok.
I love Ayutthaya.
Seriously, the temples over there are just amazing, very architheturely well built, bit similiar to the Khmer style in Cambodia's temples.
Simply beautiful, isn't it.Wat Yai Chaimonkorn
1 of my favourite pictures.
Zhi Jian and Yeow Hong
Steep
Serenity
One of the sleeping buddha, pasting the small piece of golden papers believed to bring luck.
The owner of the guest house offered us a tuk-tuk to ride to the important temples, i guess maybe it is without air- con and the weather was really hot, Zhi Jian turn kaku...X.X
Among all the temples, i like Wat Chai Wattanaram the most!!!this picture i really think is a splendid shot!!!beautiful~
the main prang.
headless buddla statute, the heads were decapitated during the war and was stolen.
1.Yeow Hong kena head butt by buffalos and dog.
2.Even the dog follow us and climb with us=D
3.In front of the Wat, there is numerous fighting cocks surrounding the statute of King Naresuan=.=
Elephant riding was a fun, feeling swaying here and there.=D
the elephant was 20 years old, Yeow Hong n Zhi Jian ride a 90 years old elephant!!!!
that is cruel...=.=
I like how the elephant trust the rider.=D
Shadows of tree branches took while riding the elephant.
I love the sky.
We then take a Samlor back to our hostel. At nite, we have a chill out at a pub downstairs, meeting over frenly drunk owner. We had a great day!!
Bye, Ayutthaya, the lovely place.=D
To be continue:
Bangkok, Krabi, Railey, Phi Phi=)
nite guys.^.^v
