Sunday, October 02, 2011

Bangkok with Joy, part 2

Day 3.

Woke up early today for a half day trip to Ayutthaya, an ancient capital of Thailand. I will just let the pictures do the talking in this post.

22 Ayuthaya
"Yay! Road trip!"


23 Ayuthaya
Ah, I knew I wasn't the only one with such eyes.

24 Ayuthaya 1
First stop, Wat Yai Chaya Mongkol, place of the Sleeping Buddha.

24 Ayuthaya
Buddha: Sigh. How to sleep with all these people posing here...

26 Ayuthaya
Buddha: No eye see ...

27 Ayuthaya
The stairs leading up there is higher than it seems.

28 Ayuthaya

29 Ayuthaya
Joy still being excited and enthusiastic. Poor gal only realized how high the place was when we got on top. Had to slowly crawl down due to fear of heights.

30 Ayuthaya
Mmmmmm roast duck...

31 Ayuthaya
Yea, the weather that day was burning and we climbed many flights of stairs.

32 Ayuthaya
Some ants nest on some flowers.

33 Ayuthaya
More ants.

34 Ayuthaya
Awwww dumbo.

35 Ayuthaya
Awwwwwwwwwww dumbo (yea, running out of things to say)

36 Ayuthaya

37 Ayuthaya
Dumbo: You touch, you pay!

38 Ayuthaya
Group pic of the guys.

39 Ayuthaya
Next stop, was the famous Buddha in the tree area.

40 Ayuthaya
Well, they say that the Buddha will slowly emerge as the tree grows. Was here 3 years ago, and guess the tree hasn't grow as much.

41 Ayuthaya
This place still amazes me with all its ancient ruins and statues. A mark of how a great civilization can just crumble to the ground.

42 Ayuthaya

43 Ayuthaya

44 Ayuthaya

45 Ayuthaya
Ancient crap.

46 Ayuthaya
It started off with this picture. Then we were trying to get a nice 'in air' picture, but with the (serious) lack of sync, the pics didn't quite had the effect we expected. Yea, check out the person in green pants and checkered shirt (Yea, I mean you Lala Liaw!)

47 Ayuthaya
Tsk tsk tsk. What mean ... what mean ...

48 Ayuthaya
Sigh ...

49 Ayuthaya
Shakes head ...

50 Ayuthaya
LOL.

51 Ayuthaya
ROFL. Face the camera lah!

52 Ayuthaya
Background stranger: Whoa. Let's get out of here.

53 Ayuthaya
Lucky this one not you screwing up.

54 Ayuthaya
Yea, this is how it's done.

55 Ayuthaya
Jumping can be pretty exhausting. Managed to grab a nap on the ride back.

56 KhaoSan
Last night in Bangkok, and we spent it in Khao San road. Stayed here the last time, and they simply have everything here. Food, bars, massage parlors, clothing, you name it. A colleague who has been around (close to a year) says that the travel agents here are the cheapest around. Haven't engaged any travel agents here so far, so I will take his word for it.

57 KhaoSan

60 KhaoSan

61 KhaoSan
A toast to the last night in Bangkok (I didn't know that I'd be stationed here for 2 more months the following week.)

End of day 3.

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Day 4.

It was time to leave. All good things must come to an end.

62 Goinghome
"It's all your fault we can't stay longer, bitch!"

63 Goinghome
"I don't wanna go home..."

64 Goinghome
"Now, I can finally rest ..."

Bangkok, you just can't get enough of it.


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