Monday, August 16, 2004

continue from Day 2: We woke up early to have our complimentary breakfast in the hotel restaurant, then proceeded to join a half-day city tour... it was very fun becos we got to know interesting cultures of the country...eg, a colour is given on each day of the week becos they believe that 1 particular colour gives them good luck for the day....like Monday's lucky colour is Yellow and so on which i canot remember...haha!
We went to several places like the gem and leather factories and also the well-known floating market! unfortunately, the floating market has died down alot becos of improving economy and more supermarkets has been opened to cater to the public...
when the tour was over, we were back in business....SHOPPING!! only this time, we're shopping for mobile phone accessories because they are so much cheaper than the suppliers in Singapore..( yes! we're in the telecommunication business!)

Then..later in the night, we went to a restaurant in Chinatown and we had our MOST sumptuous meal in our entire 4 days trip...a meal that would have cost S$200 or more in Singapore but it only costs us S$ 70!! wonder what we ate? well u just need to imagine a meal that includes a big bowl of shark's fin and a large live(not frozen) pomfret and you'll understand why it costs so much!

After dinner, we headed to the hotel by cab...however we met another cab driver that doesn't know how to go to our hotel, plus we met into a traffic jam, in the end the trip took us almost 2 hours.... fortunately for the large currency difference and that the meter goes by the distance covered, so the cab fare wasn't expensive.... costs us only around S$ 7, which is about 180 baht...

after a tiring day of walking, i decided to make use of the hotel's bathtub and have short bubblebath!! it was a chance which i never get to have in singapore becos the HDB flats we live in has toilets which are too small to fit a bathtub... plus the water bill is soo expensive, so i only could have a bubblebath when i am in overseas trips!!

Phew! end of DAY 2!!

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