Friday, 5 February 2010

Arriving at Bangkok

Fifteen hours of transit for a four hour flight is sarcastic and ridiculous enough to make a person wonder how to spend that time in an unknown place. Nancy being an equally sportive and an adventurous kind of person like me, we decided to go around Bangkok on our own as the day tours available at the airport were showing the places that dint interest either of us. So we took a map of the Bangkok city and ventured out into that unexplored city where English is an alien language and not even a single Indian was visible. It was surprising not to find much Indians around. We decided to go to some places that were worth visiting and tried various means of transport around the city. I decided to listen to Nancy as she was more courageous and bolder among both of us. Eating at the local restaurants was exciting and the variety of food served was astonishing. Nancy is a few steps ahead of me even in eating and trying out new food. We stood in the long queue and brought two expensive tickets to the grand palace only to escape from the place in a very shorter time than the time we spent in the queue to buy tickets to get in. We both managed to talk to the local auto (tuk tuk) drivers to take us to the palace where we can get a bus back to the airport. We checked in again and in a few hours we landed in Bangalore. That was the journey from Bangkok to Bangalore.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

appreciate the boldness!