mARTin-on-tour.demy travel blog

After about an hour of sleep we get up and finish packing. We take the bus at 5:20am to the airport. I’m so exited and so tired.
The Hong Kong International Airport is huge. We are here very early. Checking in and security controls are very fast cause only very few people are here that early. Shops are not open yet. Probably they open at 8am when our flight departs.
During the 2:30h flight we have a nice meal and get some sleep. After arriving in Bangkok we get our luggage, ask for a bus to the Reflections and exchange our Chinese RMB to Thai Baht. Luckily the RMB is very strong these days. It is not that easy to find the right bus station cause it’s written in Thai only.
They have a lot of strong-colorful ‘full saturated’ taxis here. Yellow and babyblue are the colours of company cabs while pink, green, green yellow, red, purple are private cabs.
We get off at Victory Monument and get into an air-conditioned cab to the Reflections. After checking in, we leave our luggage in the hostel and go to the Chatuchak weekend market cause our room is not ready yet.
The weekend market is like a huge street market with lots of different little stores of the same kind (shoes, cloth, books etc.) in different sections. The have plenty of nice designs and the stuff is very very cheap. We try some fried chicken nuggets at one store and have some ice cream cubes at another. After about an hour we get a cab back to the hostel. Cabs are also very cheap.
Our room in the Reflections is 303. It’s much bigger than it looks on pictures. The room is nicely arranged and has an artistic flair. The style and the feeling is much more ‘homy’ than the stereotype hotel rooms. There are plenty of nice little details to explore. The shower is built in a former staircase. It looks unusual but is very useful and refreshing in this hot weather.
After refeshing and taking a nap we go out to the Chatuchak Market again. It closes at 6pm. I buy a hat that Sin Sze does not like. After having some chicken noodle soup for dinner, we search for a way to the BTS Skytrain to Siam the city centre. The Skytrain is not much cheaper than a taxi ride for two persons. And they have no top up card, just single, daily or monthly tickets. We wonder arround in a shopping mall for some hours. Finally we go back to the hostel, borrow some of the free DVDs and fall asleap while watching ‘The Beach’.