The Journey is Worth More than the Destination

2nd day of Thailand and like yesterday, my family decided to go 'experience' the wonders of Thailand (although yesterday came out as a failure, but today was better). But as always, food came first. But luckily we found out that our hotel 'St Regis' was connected to a monorail station which was called 'The Sky Train'.  The Sky Train was basically connected to various major cities and businesses scattered throughout Bangkok. Mum and dad purchased a few monorail passes for the whole family and off we went to find food.

I was actually surprised when my parents said that we were going to eat at the no. 1 rated mall 'Siam Paragon'. I honestly thought that we were just going to be randomly stopping at a station and ask around if where the best restaurant was. Well it has happened numerous times before.

The Sky Train was fun to ride, but the view was mainly buildings so there wasn't much to say for scenery..

We arrived at Siam station, and took a taxi to Siam Centre. The mall was really grand and it's height stretched way over the other buildings. There was also this mascot called Mr P which was this white cartoonish character that was twice the size of me. Later in the mall we found a stand dedicated to the history of Mr P. I didn't shed much interest on him and his history ... mainly because I was hungry.

So with that thought renewed in our mind, we headed off to the food court.

THE FOOD COURT WAS HUGE!!!!

There were all these stands and mini markets selling food!! They also had these large aquariums stationed on the food court tables. I kinda feel sorry for the sea life that were swimming there because I saw an awful lot of people eating seafood right next to the tanks.  

The desserts area  was the biggest and therefore was my favourite. And the desserts were all really fancy kinds of cakes and bread and they also had these strawberry stuffed mochi, which are Japanese bean cakes, but these were stuffed with strawberries instead of beans!! So I bought this strawberry stuffed green tea mochi, I would've bought a truckload more but they costed like $2 each... and they were all half the size off my palm.

So then I ended up simply having desserts for my breakfast.

Returning to the original point of this post, my family and I took a tuk tuk (tongue twister there) to a wharf next to a river where we bought tickets for a small ferry. The wharves were literally clumped in  some kind of water weed which resulted in a rotten sea smell that attracted a hoard of flies.

Riding on the ferry was better since it relieved the smell, although dad almost missed the trip.

He was videoing us with his phone on the docks as we got on the ferry, but even after we took our seats he still remained there. Videoing. So we started yelling at him to get on the boat, but he seemed to not be hearing us (I presumed he was ignoring us but I'll dismiss it for now). And then the boat started to move. And only then did dad put down his phone and actually looked up to see that the boat was moving. The rest of the family then enjoyed a 13 second comedy thriller of dad shouting and hesitating to jump on the boat.

Of course he made it safely, although he did get a bit drenched in the water spray.

We stopped at a few stations along the river, and i found the scenery quite to my liking. It wasn't pretty, but i thought the river seemed like it liked to sail people down to places among it's coast.

When the ferry pulled up to the coast, the docking stations were completely different to the ones that we previously encountered. River water was sloshing everywhere and we had to cross over these wooden planks that were tied together that acted as bridges. The water underneath looked about waist deep even though we were already a few metres away from the river dock.It was quite fun crossing these make-shift bridges because it was a fun challenge to balance and manoeuvre around brick piles that would jutt out unexpectedly in front of you. There were also some weak spots in the planks where you had to tread carefully.

When we finally found some ground elevation, we were in the midst of a crowd of markets, people and flies. The stalls were offering young coconut juices and flossy bread which I had to stop and look at. But before long, I had to be rushed off through the next crowd of people. 

After enduring a sticky heat zone, we headed towards the nearest road and "hailed" a tuk tuk. The ride was enjoyable as ever and there weren't any traffic jams meaning that we were going at full speed. I think I enjoy tuk tuk's because of their open windows that let the wind stream through, it messes up my hair a lot but it feels nice to felt nice to feel a blustering wind against my face. :)

We arrived beside the walls of the temple. When we entered within the walls, there were vastly decorated pagodas with golden figures of Buddha inside. The designs were greatly intricate and detailed.The area containing  the Buddha pagodas was actually quite small and could probably just fit 90 people in the square space.

After a brief look around, we decided to return back to the hotel. 

Even though the spires were great works of art, they weren't really as grand. But that's just my opinion. 

Here I think that the journey was more enjoyable than the destination.

Especially the tuk tuks. You can never go wrong with the tuk tuks.

Here's some links to some pics of the Buddha pagoda's that were taken by people who were more experienced than my dad.
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