Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok had the hustle-bustle of any other big city with lots and lots of tourists flocking up.It was a quick 2 hour flight from Singapore to Suvarnabhumi Airport,Bangkok.On day-1 we took one of these tuk-tuk's to visit the Grand Palace and a Buddha Temple which is said to be about 700 year old! The Buddha statue looked tremendous ,painted with gold.I was stunned for a second looking at it.I considered myself Lucky to have been having an opportunity to see that temple.I rewarded myself with some Thai Food for lunch,which tasted pretty good.But,I must say that the Thai food which I have had in Singapore and Malaysia so far is so much different from the authentic one.We roamed in and around the city for about 4 or 5 hours before we headed to a Whole sale shopping mall which was located just beside our Hotel,Grand Diamond.The mall was huge.Me and my sister were asked to shop around,whereas my parents were resting at one of these resting areas in the mall(they where too tired after walking up and down the mall for an hour or so).We were surprised to know that most of the shops and restaurants in Bangkok closes before 8 Pm! Having not buying much at the end of the day-1 shopping as the shops closed before we could finish seeing all ,we made use of the opportunity the next day where we headed to the mall around 4 Pm so that we would have more time to shop.We bought so much of stuffs including Dresses,Bikinis and some hair clips which would cost a bomb in Singapore in total! I came to a conclusion that Thailand is a good choice for shopping (especially for girls),and you need to bargain as much as possible to get best deals!
The Grand Palace
We also booked for a half day city tour and were taken to one of these pagoda's.It took 15 minutes to reach there by boat.At the end of our half day city tour we were taken to the floating market where by you can see vendors and purchasers floating in their small rowing boats,selling or buying goods.But I was disappointed to see that the Bangkok floating market is not as big and nice as the original Floating market which is located about 110 Kilo-Meters from Bangkok.We did not have time to visit that as it was said to be one or two hour hour journey from the city(but have planned to cover those places on our next trip!).Over all it was a nice and memorable trip to Thailand-The land of friendly people.

Caught this at a food stall in the Food court.

This is the gigantic 700 year old Buddha!