Strolling Around Bangkok City

We woke up around 7am to take advantage of our free breakfast. A buffet table was set-up loaded with lots of food! Some are familiar and most of it are not but I am brave enough to eat it. Having the bahala-na-kung-sumakit-ang-tyan attitude, go lang ako!

Fried rice with lots of ulam!

After the delightful breakfast, we now started our tour. See, back in 2010, I don't even know that travel agencies exist. I mean I do, but I still don't get their importance to convenient travelling. Hence, I did what other travelers do - Shotgun iterinary! We just went to tourist spots nearest to our hotel and/or easier to go to.

Erawan Shrine

We took the BTS Skytrain, Bangkok's version of MRT then get-off at Chidlom Station. Our first stop is Erawan Shrine located in Front of Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel, corner of Ploenchit and Ratchadamri Road. This shrine is said to be built to honour of the four-faced Brahma God, Than Tao Mahaprom.

Back then, I was not about the history nor the culture, I just pose and shoot and did not really understand much of what's the story behind the shrine. How would I know that I will just wake up one day and I like to write these travel experiences?! It is lesson hard learned, I guess. So here I am, trying to remember every detail of this trip, asking you to bear with me.

Thai dancers in front of Erawan Shrine

While taking pictures of the shrine, some Thai dancers are dancing and most of the people knelt down to pray. Honestly, I am not sure of what to do that moment, so I took a few snaps then wait for them to finish. Up to this moment, I am not sure if what happened is a ceremony. Whatever it is, it is quite a sight as the dancers danced gracefully even having something on their heads.

Our next stop is Ganesha Shrine. I remember walking from Erawan Shrine to this shrine. Located at 999/9 Rajdamri Road, it is actually in front of the Central World Mall. 

Ganesha Shrine

According to a legend, Ganesha maddened his father, who then accidentally cut off his head. To make amends, the father told his soldiers to bring the head of the first animal they encountered, which happened to be an elephant with one tusk and replaced Ganesha's head. I say, thanks Dad! :)

Just be careful taking pictures of this shrine. Some of the locals have scolded us as they consider Ganesha Shrine one of their sacred prayer venues.We apologized however I no longer wanted to stay there as the people are already looking at us. Don't wanna make the Thais angry!  I took one last picture then walked to our next destination. 


Sadly, I cannot remember the name of our next destination. It seems like a shrine but it has like a palace inside. At that time, it is under construction so we just took pictures outside. I tried looking it up, but to no avail. To whom it may concern, kindly help me identify this place.

What I remember is walking from Central World to this location, can't remember the road we took but we just walked under the hot streets of Bangkok. The irritating part is, I threw all the said printed maps when I did a house general cleaning once! Aaargh. Bummer.


After perspiring so much and walking a lot, we decided to go to Siam Paragon Shopping Mall, para naman makatikim ng aircon and to eat lunch na din.

Busog and we thought it is still early to go home, we roamed around the mall to which surprised me that I cannot buy anything as things are expensive! I'm a practical person and I am not into expensive things talaga. So roam-roam kame then we got into the basement floor and saw the Siam Ocean World Bangkok.

What's interesting with this is, Siam Ocean World is an Ocean Park inside a mall!  I was really fascinated of this fact and I felt like I was a child again. Entrance Fee is THB 900 around Php 1,350 and this includes access to all  zones, back of the house tour, glass bottom boat, 4D  cinema, the open ocean just like the Ocean Park's and my fave, the 10-minute fish spa.

Fish Spa

I have heard of this Fish Spa way before I have it in Bangkok, but I never thought it will be fun! At first, it was like being tickled but with that 10 minutes you'll probably get the hang of it. There are saying that this fish eat the dead skin you have on your feet (in short, kalyo-eating fishes), better that foot spa, I think. I am hoping I can do this again.

After a very long day of walking and sight-seeing, we were beat and our feet hurts. We have complimentary massage coupons at the nearby massage place from our hotel and we immediately used it :). The massage therapists advised us to have the massage first before eating dinner. Having a massage when you are full, makes you vomit, so they say. But that makes sense, actually.

We both had a Thai massage and I must say, having an authentic Thai massage was superb! The strokes were swabe and being stretched like that take your soreness away. They also offered hot tea after the massage. I was very sleepy after. But then we remembered, we had to eat first.

For dinner, we just walked around the hotel and searched for a place to eat. We saw a garage  turned into restaurant and we were intrigued (and also we are tired of walking at this point), we decided to eat there. 

Quite a Watermelon Shake

Tom Yum Seafood

Unfortunately, I cannot remember the name of this resto. We ordered a Tom Yum Seafood and a watermelon fruit shake. The Tom Yum tasted really good but for the watermelon shake, let's say, I had quite a reaction.

Doing all these stuffs in one whole day was exhausting. Being tired and with stomachs full, we decided to go to bed. Tomorrow's another day!