Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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I went to king power mall and got a free BTS sky train ticket which was advertised on a leaflet. I had a look around their duty free mall but it was an expensive place so I moved on and went to the nearest station to get the BTS ticket working and I couldn't open the packet which happened to be was good as it had written "Do not open" on it so I handed it to the person working there who got it working and I took the train to the travel agents (Vega Travel) to get the bus ticket to Yangon booked which seemed to go ok. Again I used the wifi at the bar to check internet so got the most out of that meal and drink. After I looked at the map and decided to use/abuse the free train travel so I went towards the end of BTS line stopping somewhere en route to see a temple. I made it to Bearing (last stop) before heading back and went to Om nut station for the Tesco lotus there where I got some food. It's interesting that despite things being fairly cheap, a lot of things are not cheaper because I don't think they have as good supply chain management as we do in the UK. After I looked at google maps or maps.me (which is such a great app) and there was a floating market I thought maybe I could get to if there was a boat so I went for what turned out to be a really long walk and I just got near the river which was a dirty busy place with lots of trucks and I couldn't really get to the river, there was no boat so I gave up on the floating market and walked back past an oil refinery to a BTS station after along waste of time. The trains were really quite good, they have floor markings showing where the doors open (like we have on the Jubilee line in London) and my ticket gave me 140 uses, think I got through maybe 15 in the day. Next I caught the train to see a park which was pretty nice and afterwards I went to the end of another line and did another long walk to try to go to 2 temples but I had to cross a river and there was no path so I ended up going over the road motorway bridge which was a bit dangerous. Did see one temple before heading back to the train and going to Thaksin bridge where I could see a massive empty building which I kind of feel like was there last time I was in Bangkok. There was also quite a nice temple which had a replica stone junk boat to see for 20 THB. After I moved onto another stop and past what looked like a park but was a racecourse I couldn't get into but there was another park to walk across which had lots of people running through and a big aerobics class. Finally I went to the national stadium stop and walked around their football stadium before popping into an art centre which had a slightly unusual exhibition of selfie paintings and the results of an art competition.
Went back to BED station hostel and there was a Camera crew interviewing people talking about how Thailand or Bangkok is still worth visiting even though some things are shut during the time of mourning. A lot of the same people were still around like Moshi, JP and Devon. The hostel showed the film the terminal on the TV so we started talking about Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas.
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