Last day of the holiday. Bangkok then home
Well, it's finally coming to an end. Tonight was our last overnight on holiday...we leave tomorrow evening for the airport at about 9:30. So we have most of the day to sightsee tomorrow. We got in a fair bit today, although it wasn't until about 1pm that we had got ourselves settled in the hotel as disembarkation from the cruise ship was held up by immigration.
We grabbed a bite to eat at the hotel, then headed out straight to a tailor. I had decided to get a suit made here in Bangkok, having heard good things about the tailors here. They picked us up from the hotel and whisked us over to the store. They had a good range of cloths and ended up talking me into getting 2 suits and a tuxedo made, along with spare pairs of trousers for each suit, 3 bespoke shirts and 3 silk ties.
After that, they dropped us off at the temple of the Golden Buddha, and we did a bit of sightseeing there and at the Golden Mound (I've probably gone and gotten the name of that wrong, so forgive me if I have). We then took a taxi back to the hotel, had a swim, and then got picked up by the tailor in the evening for the first fitting. After that they dropped us off at the nice Vietnamese restaurant that we had recommended to us, so we ended up getting driven around by the tailor most of the day!
Of all the restaurants in Bangkok we could have gone to, we ended up in one that's owned by someone who was on the same cruise as us, and that had invited a bunch of other people we met on the cruise to the restaurant that night. Everyone was rather surprised to see each other - small world.
Seedy street in Bangkok - neon, girls and old western men - you can see two couples walking towards me
Dinner in the Vietnamese place
Inside the restaurant
Graves/memorials at the base of the Golden Mound
The tip of the mound
Under the tip inside
Buddhas galore
View from the top
Bell-ringing monks on their way down
Me ringing a bell
Lots of bells
A pretty cool statue
Kitties
A rather nicely done door to a temple
Assorted Buddhas
The Golden Buddha - 5.5 tonnes of solid gold...was originally disguised in plaster years ago so it wouldn't get stolen. Only revealed to be gold when it broke the crane it was being lifted on and it fell down and cracked the plaster off a corner of the statue, revealing the gold...
Statues at the temple
Grounds of the hotel
View from the top
Easter on board ship
We grabbed a bite to eat at the hotel, then headed out straight to a tailor. I had decided to get a suit made here in Bangkok, having heard good things about the tailors here. They picked us up from the hotel and whisked us over to the store. They had a good range of cloths and ended up talking me into getting 2 suits and a tuxedo made, along with spare pairs of trousers for each suit, 3 bespoke shirts and 3 silk ties.
After that, they dropped us off at the temple of the Golden Buddha, and we did a bit of sightseeing there and at the Golden Mound (I've probably gone and gotten the name of that wrong, so forgive me if I have). We then took a taxi back to the hotel, had a swim, and then got picked up by the tailor in the evening for the first fitting. After that they dropped us off at the nice Vietnamese restaurant that we had recommended to us, so we ended up getting driven around by the tailor most of the day!
Of all the restaurants in Bangkok we could have gone to, we ended up in one that's owned by someone who was on the same cruise as us, and that had invited a bunch of other people we met on the cruise to the restaurant that night. Everyone was rather surprised to see each other - small world.
Seedy street in Bangkok - neon, girls and old western men - you can see two couples walking towards me
Dinner in the Vietnamese place
Inside the restaurant
Graves/memorials at the base of the Golden Mound
The tip of the mound
Under the tip inside
Buddhas galore
View from the top
Bell-ringing monks on their way down
Me ringing a bell
Lots of bells
A pretty cool statue
Kitties
A rather nicely done door to a temple
Assorted Buddhas
The Golden Buddha - 5.5 tonnes of solid gold...was originally disguised in plaster years ago so it wouldn't get stolen. Only revealed to be gold when it broke the crane it was being lifted on and it fell down and cracked the plaster off a corner of the statue, revealing the gold...
Statues at the temple
Grounds of the hotel
View from the top
Easter on board ship
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