Shopping In Bangkok.

Now to continue my Thailand journey, let's go to the essential part of why girls go to Bangkok - Shopping! Yeah yeah, food's great- given, but shopping doesn't come close to Greenhills or Divi shopping,where you're supposed to get everything cheap right, but the stuff that they sell if you ask are from Bangkok. So imagine if you get the stuff directly, how much cheaper could they get? :D The answer? 100 baht. Or P140 :) (for some items :D)

Bangkok is a shopping mecca where haggling is essential and wholesale is downsized to 3 pieces. Haha, nuff said. It helps when there 4 of us shopping together because we always get the wholesale price, and thank God I brought an extra duffel bag because my stuff didn't fit in the luggage bag, shopping's that crazy :) I'm now 85% done with my Christmas shopping, so hooray! I bought a lot of gifts during the trip, so there's few people left on my list :D


I've loved eating Pad Thai and Bagoong Rice even before my Bangkok trip and I was really looking forward to eating the 'authentic' one, and it both had check marks on my list before we left. But now, I discovered another addition to my Thai list, it's the Thai Tea! Aside from coffee fix, I also get cravings for Milk Tea, Chai Tea, and my new addition to the list, Thai Tea :) I'm glad they have these in 3 in one's from the grocery that we were able to bring home. If they had instant Pad Thai, I would have brought home some too. Hahahahha. Well, for Pad Thai fix in Manila, there's always Oody's.

I'd definitely go back to Bangkok!

Thailand Trip - Ayutthaya.

The trip with my cousins pushed through last weekend, October 12-15. We planned about it last year or early this year, booked around end Feb, and after fixing the hotel and a lot of google-ing, we came and conquered Bankok. Lance also came along with us, she flew from Singapore, so we were 4, Lance, Ate Yel, Kat and I.

So how do I start? Hmm.. Departure! Cebu Pacific, who's now recently late all the time adjusted our flight and moved it earlier. Even if the plane was on time, unfortunately they overbooked, and there weren't any takers. Yes it was another free round trip ticket, but the rigorous planning and adjusting your trip again would be taxing and we ended up not caring for a free round trip ticket. After awhile, I'm not really sure if there were any takers, but I'm guessing there were, we boarded the plane and flew to Bangkok.

We arrived in the hotel around 3 in the morning, which basically ruined 'the plan'. I made this sort of itinerary on what we'll do while we're there. Our trip to Ayutthaya can't push through because we can't wake up at 7am to take the train/bus that would take us there. The ride is 2 hours, and it would be time consuming if we leave around 10am, we'll waste the whole day if we do that. Anyway, we left the hotel around 10, hailed a cab and thought we'd shop in Platinum Mall instead. While talking to Mr. Tommy, the cab driver (who speaks good english, by the way), we mentioned our plan that sadly didn't push through. He offered to take us to Ayutthaya! Hooray! Since there are the 4 of us, splitting the cab fare into 4 won't be that costly :) And since we were riding a cab, there won't be a lot of stops on the way so it basically took us around an hour and few minutes going there.



The trip to Ayutthaya was culturally enriching, I'm envious what in the Philippines we don't have these spots where you can bring tourists around that would make them appreciate our culture. The place even though in ruins was a majestic grandeur. I know we have Intramuros, but I don't think it's still comparable to what I've seen in Ayutthaya.

Although the initial plan was just to shop in Bangkok, I'm really glad we made this stop! Yes there's the Grand Palace, the Golden Reclining Buddha in Bangkok, but seeing the old capital of Thailand, even thought it's an hour away is definitely worth it.


At the end of the tour, nothing beats authentic Pad Thai in Thailand, even if it's just a whole in the wall resto and it costs 30baht. :)

(To be continued.)