Two weeks ago I was
invited to join a trip to Thailand and Hong Kong. For someone who hasn't been out of the country in a while I was super
excited. Eight days and seven nights to
explore two different places, to get to try new food, and of course to
shop! Travel is a chance to get away
from stressful things and for a while, be oblivious and carefree. Fortunately, I had the chance to travel with
a great family who were so accommodating and fun to be with.
If you live in the
Philippines you'd think that it would be a breeze to get to Bangkok, which was
our first destination, but in our case we had to go through a 6 hour drive from
Manila to Baguio. If you're up to date
with airports, you'd know that our airport isn't one to boast.
Well, the long trip
was worth it. Bangkok was great! We had an itinerary and a tour guide, Tuk-tuk
(Yes, she has the same name as their country's version of our tricycle.). There are upsides and downsides to having a
tour guide, but in this case we did enjoy having a tour guide. We got to our hotel, Arnoma Hotel, rested a
bit, and headed to the nearest mall beside us to grab something to eat. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to take much
pictures of what we've eaten there, but I should tell you we had noodle soup several times during this trip. It was at every buffet.
Our first item in
our itinerary was to have a dinner buffet and watch a popular show among
tourists, Siam Niramit. We enjoyed the
show very much despite rushing our dinner buffet, which was our first amongst several buffet meals in
Bangkok. We got our first taste of
Bangkok traffic and got to the restaurant about 30 minutes before the
show. We ate what we could and headed
off to the show which ended around 10 or 11 PM cause there was a short delay.
There were so many tourists and to think it was a Thursday. I really didn't analyze what the play was
about (probably because we haven't recovered from the travel) but you could get a gist of it nonetheless. There wasn't much dialogue, but their actions and choreography was great. It was so colorful and creative that none of us got bored I think. The set was amazing! There was a part when the stage suddenly turned into a river out of nowhere! Then a man dived and there were boats coming in. And they had I think 2 elephants on stage! Too bad you can't take photos. I didn't even try taking any with my mobile
phone. I guess, its just something you
should try yourself when you get the chance.
Instead of going on to the next day of the trip, I'm cutting this post short and posting the rest by pieces to make it easy. I still have photos to fix.
Until next post! :)
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