Here goes, Day 4 (Bangkok second day), the plan today is Tussaud museum - Chao Phraya - Catuchak
Today, unfortunately Pucci catch a very bad cold so she couldn't accompanied us. We decided to take the bus shuttle to Siam because we wanna go to Tussaud museum, the shuttle is free of charge, but its kinda packed up because many people uses it. Tussaud Museum is located at Siam Discovery, it is on the same place with Oceanarium, and on Siam complex there are also other malls, such as Siam Centre, Paragon, and MBK. The ticket price is 720 baht, located on Siam Discovery 6th floor. The museum has many wax statue, from world leaders (late first president Soekarno is there too), Obama at his oval office, athletes, singers, and also the marvelous Doraemon. If you like to take pictures this is definitely the place for you, and it is the only Tussaud in South East Asia. And inside they also have interactive games mostly using XBOX consoles, most are sports, for example, nearby David Beckham statue you will find a penalty kick game; near Justin Bieber you will find a dancing game, near Bie Astar you can find a karaoke box (yes you can sing karaoke inside it), near Serena Williams you can play tennis, and near the amazing Bruce Lee there is a martial arts figthing game. After Tussaud, we have lunch at Otoya in Siam Paragon, and then headed straight to Central Pier at Thaksin to take the Chao Phraya river boat.
If you like going trough the river but confused which boat to take, i recomend just take the Chao Phraya Tourist Boat ride, yes it is not one of those river cruise boat, but it will only cost you 150 baht a day, from 9.30 am to 10 pm, you can take the boat for free for as many rides you want. It will stop at 8 piers, if you wanna go to the palace just alight at Maharaj Pier, if you wanna go to Wat Arun alight at Tha Thien Pier and boarrd the ferry across the river for 2 baht, with the ticket you will receive a tourist guide for which pier to alight. Just remember the Grand Palace is only open from 8.30 am - 3.30 pm, tickets are 350.
After finishing our river cruise, we go to Chatuchak market. To reach Catuchak, just take the train from Thaksin station to Mo Chit station, walk about 10 minutes, and you have reached Catuchak. Its a market, you can get many Thailand souvenirs here at a bargain price, use a calculator if the seller doesn't understand english, the more you buy usually you will get cheaper price. And don't just stay at one stall, there are many stall there, so you might get even cheaper price. After Chatuchak closed around 7 pm, we head back to our hotel.
At the hotel, we drop off the stuff we buy, and decided to go to the observatory deck at 77th floor. It is actually one of the hotel facility, if you stay at the hotel you can go there for free, but if you don't you have to pay 300 baht just to go up there. The view from there is beautiful, you can see Bangkok city lights and if you wanna go higher you can go to the rooftop bar at the 85th floor. But if you are afraid of heights, i don't suggest you go there. After the observaroty deck closes at 10.30 pm we went back to our room.
Next is, bye bye Bangkok and flight back to Singapore (Day 5)
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