The day after we visited the palace, we checked out the floating markets about 1 1/2 hours outside of Bangkok. Once we got into the area, we rode on a longtail speedboat to get to the market. Unfortunately, ours broke down and we had to jump ship in the middle of the river. All I was thinking was that I hope the thing doesn't sink, because the river looked full of snakes and all kinds of creepy animals. There were even a bunch of advertisements around for a Cobra Show.We tried a bunch of different fruits - mangosteens, rambutans, but we have yet to try durian, which is a huge spikey green fruit with a creamy white inside that is banned from hotels because it smells so bad.
The final day, we checked out the Chatuchuck weekend market - which was HUGE. Lots of stalls selling all kinds of things from cool t-shirts, to jewelry, to housewares, and even all kinds of food. Brennan is the best customer of jj's t-shirts since he bought 6 with airline logos on them. He is super psyched! We have learned how to negotiate in Bangkok- the trick is to smile a lot. Initially we were kind of argumentative when we were haggling, but once we started smiling like crazy, people helped us out more.
Brennan did a great job haggling for a tuk tuk. We were planning to take the Chao Phraya express boat back at night, and didn't realize that it closed at sunset. There were only 2 tuk-tuks around and both wanted 300 baht. After negotiations, Brennan got him down to 30 baht with one stop (he had to pretend he wanted to buy a suit so the driver could get a gas coupon).
We headed to Chiang Mai on one-two-go airlines (never heard of it before) on Saturday night.
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JJ's t-shirts!!! I totally bought one of those when I was there!
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