Our day began at three in the morning on our way to the Floating Market in Bangkok! We arrived at the market when a lady told us right away to get out of the van and it was 300 baht to get on a bus to the floating market. We thought that our driver Gop was taking us all the way, but he actually did... It was the lady was mixing a bus with a boat. She was meaning to tell is a boat was going to take us to the floating markets.
The floating market was really cool, but trying to bargain here was more complicated then bargaining in Chiang Mai, I got a couple souvenirs but not many here.
To bring us to there market they grab our boat with a hook and pull us in, even if we look at there market they think we want to stop and look so they pull us in. They also won't accept no for an answer.
The person driving us stopped at a market because his wife and baby were there. We were planning on not buying anything from that market, but she told us "for the baby" and we felt bad so we bought picture of the floating markets.
Later that day we went to the Grand Palace and the Reclining Buddha or its also called Wat Pho. The grand palace is the kings residence and the Wat Pho has a lot of symbolism towards Buddhism. When we went to the Grand Palace we thought it was free, but we actually found out for foreigners it was 500 baht so we decided to stay on the outside and take pictures.
When we went to the reclining Buddha we found out that cost money too, but it was a lot cheaper. To go inside I needed to wear this long bright green robe because I was wearing a shirt that didn't cover my shoulders. When we went inside we saw the Buddha and it is so long and huge, it was also very crowded because it is a touristy place.
Bangkok is sooo busy! On our way to a mall we got in a taxi and we noticed that the drivers picture was of a girl, it was a man driving us, he was taking back rodes and he was talking a ton about a lot of random topics like Heidi Klum (i'm surprised he wasn't out of breath).The night out in Bangkok we went to see the movie called The Imitation Game, it was a really good movie and it was in English! On our way back our tuk-tuk told us a price before we got in his tuk-tuk and when he was driving us he realized how far away it was so he tried to increase his price, we said no so he dropped us off right where we were at that moment. It was only a street away from our hostel, but when were walking back to our hostel men kept asking us if we wanted to go to a ping pong show, it was the most awkward thing this weekend. Overall it was a good weekend in Bangkok!
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