Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Actual Day 3 of trip, last one was day 2


So I woke up feeling like a ball of poop. Should have stopped drinking way earlier then we did, but it was such an adventure I could not leave early. Woke up packed all our things because that was our last night in Bangkok, we were going to be heading to Chaing Mai later that evening on an overnight bus.

The day started off me wondering if I was going to be sick or not, but then finally that feeling went away when Bangkok had one of the largest thunder and lightning storms I've ever heard. the lightning light up the sky and the rain was pouring harder then any rain I've ever seen and the thunder shook the hostel to the point where I thought it was an earthquake... I was wrong, but one of their many thunder and lightning storms they get. It was amazing though, everyone of us were amazed by how ridiculous the rain was. This is when we decided we would all go to a small coffee shop by our hostel and chill out there chatting until the rain stopped.
Finally after the rain stopped we headed out to adventure. We decided we wanted to go to Wat Pho one of the many Temples in Bangkok, but the special things about this temple is that it had the largest reclining Buddha. We took the ferry to Wat Pho and on our ferry ride we got to see another famous Temple, actually cannot remember the name, but when it is sunny out is shines so badly you cannot look at it. We also got to see local Thai people fishing in the extremely dirty water and some who even lived under small huts near the water. We finally arrived at Wat Pho and went to check it out, this is when we realized ladies such as myself must wear pants or shorts that cover the knee and there must be no shoulder showing. Welcome to Thailand everyone... girls get the short end of the stick lets just put it that way. Before you enter the temple you must take off your shoes... so if you're me obviously the first thing i thought about was oh wow I'm going to get athletes foot now, or some foot fungus. Anyways we entered the temple and the walls were all hand painted with sooo much detail, we even got to see one of the ladies sitting there painting it as we walked through. The Buddha himself, we was very large and in charge. It was laying and completely made of gold, probably one of the lagest Buddha's in the world, but who knows really. Let's just say it was bigger then 4 or 5 elephants put together.

We then walked around and viewed other temples in the same area, watched some local Thai men fixing one of the roofs and they were just chilling 50 or 60 feet up there with no secure line so if they fell, well it wouldn't be pretty. after spending a few hours visiting different temples we decided to head back and split up into groups to grab some food before our overnight bus to Chaing Mai. Once on the bus we all passed out until midnight when we made a pee stop. then another 6 hours to go with no toilet... it was scary. I never know my bladder could hold for so long, but I was very proud of it haha.

2 comments:

  1. you're going to love chiang mai!
    are you seeing chiang rai too?

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  2. reminds me of sitting on your front porch in the nish watching the thunder and lightning storm! xo

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