Grand Palace and Thai Village

After our tiring day before we had another early start this time we had a sleep in till 6 am. got pick up by another small van and headed to the big bus meeting point. We hop on our bus, someone told us to go to that one. Other people joined us on the bus i think we ended up with about 10 people. As it turned out our tour guide was none other than Pearl.

We headed through the city toward the grand palace as Pearl gave a similar speil to yesterday. We got off the bus and was hassled by a group of local souvenir sellers. There are dress codes for the palace that we were told about by other people that had done the tour so taking note I had followed the rule and covered my knees (3/4 pants) and covered the shoulders (loose over top thingo) despite this I was stopped by the palace official people and told that my pants were not long enough (well sorry im tall stopid gaurd man). Despite the fact that other women wearing skirts above the knee were fine, i had to wear hire a stoopid sarong for 30baht (about $1). I was not happy Jan!

It was good looking at the Palace even though i couldnt enjoy it was still angry about the pants saga. After this half of the tour we went back to the big bus meeting spot and met our new tour guide for the Thai village.... name unknown. We had some time to spare and was hungry so went to the 7 eleven and got some snacks..... this included 3 bags of chips (purple packet chips in Thailand are not salt and vinigar they are lobster flavour!) 2 chocolate bars and a bottle of coke and a bottle of water this came to a grand total of approx $4 hehehe.

We got on our new bus and headed for the Thai village it was a very beautiful place .... lovely garden. We saw elephants and got a photo with a baby elephant who kissed us with the end of his trunk on our cheeks...... as cute as he was he had stinky trunk breath, both me and Glen wanted to wash our faces. Then we saw the elephants do a show they are very smart! We headed to the theatre to see another show to demonstrate Thai life. It was pretty hot and Glen was not feeling well (i think 2 packs of chips and chocolate for lunch was not a bright idea, combine that with stinky trunk breath and its not a good look). Anyway the Thai show cured Glens tummy ache. They played music, demostrated Thai boxing, a marriage ceremony, dancing and sword fighting. We then headed back to the bus and back to the hotel to wash off the elephant stink and go to bed.

Kieran