Bangkok trip 2014 Day 2

Basically the second day was a full day of work. The only thing we went out of the factory is to have lunch. Amiss our short lunch, I personally think that our lunch location is quite unique. Basically, we are having lunch on top of a floating "sort-of" boat.

The location we had our lunch

The food we had that day during lunch. Basically the "spotlight" of the lunch is their fresh from the river prawn, which is not bad in my opinion.

Later that evening after testing, we went to a shopping mall to have our dinner. Truth to be told, I can't recall the shopping mall name. Haha.. I think it starts with the word Mega ..... something. Didn't buy much except the Lay keropoks. lol... 

And I totally forgot to take the photos of the food, but I do remember the name of the restaurant is call Four Seasons.

Different flavours of Lay keropok

Bangkok trip 2014 Day 1

Last week I went to Bangkok for a short business trip 4D3N. The last trip to Bangkok was in Year 2008! Gosh, 6 years had pass!

So we took Malaysia Airlines to go to Bangkok and surprisingly our connecting flight did not encounter any delay, which is a relief. After reach the hotel, we went straight to our hotel to check in. The hotel that we stayed is Grand Mercure Fortune Hotel, which is located opposite the Central Mall Shopping mall.

The room is quite spacious and overlook the city.After we checked in, we went to the Central Mall to shop for a while before our dinner. For dinner on the first night, we was brought to Tawandang German Brewery for dinner. Personally, I really like the environment there. There is actually a stage in a big room and there is performance every night and every night, the performance will be different.

It is just our luck that day when we arrived is actually public holiday in Thailand, to celebrate their Queen's birthday. So, most of the performance is singing, and some shows. I have to admit the dancer are really good and their singing quality is good too. Just that too bad most of the songs are sang in Thai language.

Apart from that, the food that night is good too. Truth to be told, the food for the 3 nights I stayed in Bangkok had been superb. I am very confident that I gained much weight when I return back to Kuching.

Pork Knuckle

For remembrance

The beer

Krabi, Phi Phi Island Day 4

4th day of my holiday: this will be the last day at Phi Phi Island before we head off back to Ao Nang Beach. So, we decided to go easy this day and take our time to scroll around the beach and try on some of the foods.

Beautiful Beach

Taking photo for rememberence

Another photo.. The weather is really hot and sunny.

Emo photo by the beach

Posting

While walking around Phi Phi Island, we saw this restaurant which seems to pack with people most of the time. So we decided to have our lunch here. The unique thing about this restaurant is that the wall is filled up with pieces of A4 papers with writing from the tourist that had eat here.

 

Calamaro Resto

The walls are fill with writings from the tourists that came and ate at this restaurant

OMG, the green curry, it's yummylicious.

The food we ordered.

That is all for Day 4.

Krabi, Phi Phi Island Day 3

Krabi Day 3 

Staying overnight at our PP Casista Cottage at Phi Phi Island. The following is the photos we took while on our way to the restaurant for our breakfast. 

The Cottage we stay for the night. =)

Decorations along the way

A swimming pool for the guest to use

This is the hotel I'm staying

Breakfast

After breakfast, we went around Phi Phi island to look for the best half day tour available which we can take. Finally we settle for one and waited for the usher to walk until our tour center and show us the way to the beach. For those of you are not very familiar with the waves, please bear in mind the sea-sickness. Apart from that, splash on LOTS of sun block! We went for snorkeling, see the monkeys by the cliff, an old caves and famous James Bond beach.

 

Saw this creatively architecture restaurant. A boat up at a tree.

The boat we use to half day tour on the sea

Here we go....

Snorkeling, can see very pretty fish..

Monkeys on one of the cliffs

THE famous James Bond beach. It's crowded with people on that small stretch of sea beach

After nearly whole day out in the beach, by the evening around 5pm, we finally reach the Phi Phi mainland. We walk along the stretch of beach, sight-seeing and buying most of our souvenirs there, then we went to Seven-Eleven to buy mee cups and alcohol drinks.

 

Our dinner for the night

The outcome of the day out, a cut on my toe due to the sharp stone during the tour. Luckily I got this cut while walking from the boat to the beach. Not during the trip, else I won't be able to enjoy the tour. But I did walked with this bloodied toe for shopping before going back to hotel. Luckily the cut is not deep.

 

Krabi, Phi Phi island Day 2

The next day, we went to Phi Phi Island. We used the big ferry to go there and the ride was around 2 hours.

 

Finally reached the jetty. The beach is very pretty, however, the jetty is cram with people. Cannot believe so many people actually came to this island. The funny thing is that in the island there is no automobile on the island. You can travel from one place to another location by using your feet. 

When we arrived the jetty, our escort from our Hotel (PP Casita) is waiting there to escort us to our hotel.

Our Escort

Taking photo at the jetty

Another photo with Thailand flag above my head.

Besides the jetty. The house and boats...

Another photo at the jetty

After walking and check in our hotel, we went out and searched for lunch. We noticed one restaurant and decided to go in for lunch. The weather there is extremely hot and most of the shops there is open air, no air conditioner at all. 

Our hotel room. We order the cottage room for our stays there

My favorite dish in Thailand. Rice with soup.

After lunch, we decided to explore and walk along the evacuation route during Tsunami. It was a long way up using stairs and I was exhausted when I finally reached the top. If Tsunami is really going to happen, I do not think I will be able to out-run the waves with my stamina.

Follow the sign

Using the stairs, go up and up

More stairs... Getting extremely tired.

Finally, going to reach view point 1 soon.

Ta-da, I'm up there already

The famous spot to take photo

After photo and resting for a while, walk down all the stairs again

After reaching view point 1 and snap some photos up there for memory, we need to walk all the way down again to the beach. Since I had burned much calories by walking up and down the stairs, I ordered a large slice of pizza.

And reach the beach.

80 Baht per slice. This is the standard slice