Thailand

Continued from Thailand – Laos: Day 8 – Part 3 – Bangkok City Pillar Shrine. For pre-travel, please refer here. About 100 meters from the Bangkok City Pillar Shrine, there is a building that houses an artillery museum, government offices and the Thai defense ministry. At this point, the guards do not allow visitors to enter the […]

Continued from Thailand – Laos Travel: Day 8 – Part 2 – Mae Phra Thoranee Beep Muay Phom & The Grand Palace, Bangkok. For pre-travel, please refer here. What did Aqif show?

Continued from Thailand – Laos Travel: Day 8 – Part 1 – Lunch at Chakrapong Mosque and a Visit to Coin Museum. For pre-travel, please refer here. Going on the road by foot is not a favorite of many people. Some people like to use public transport quickly even though the distance is near. We just walked […]

Continued from Thailand – Laos Travel: Day 7 – Part 7 – Finding Cheap Hotels and Khao San Road. For pre-travel, please refer here. Travel Date: January 4, 2017Day: 8Location: Bangkok While at the Negara Buku book fair in Shah Alam in December 2017, I met and got acquainted with Meor Farid Asyradi (author of the famous […]

Continued from Thailand – Laos Travel: Day 7 – Part 6 – Welcome to Bangkok! For pre-travel, please refer here. Just off the ferry, we set up a route search via Google Maps to get to Khao San Road on foot. At the Phra Arthit jetty, there are clear signposts that make it easy to search. The […]

Continued from Thailand – Laos Travel: Day 7 – Part 5 – Relaxing at Rainbow Lodge and Journey to Bangkok. For pre-travel, please refer here. Just got off the train, Aqif waved at the two backpacker sisters who rode the train with us earlier. They are both not Malaysians but Thais. They played with Aqif for the […]