thailand........day three

i spent a couple of hours reading at the pool ...as stuart left at 6am for tour of the grand palace..i choose to miss the trip..as my back was still pretty sore...and i knew if i rested for the morning..i would be better for the rest of the holiday......later in the day we took a taxi to the NBK shopping mall..i think just about everyone said we had to go there as its the biggest mall.......our taxi driver was really sweet and gave us a bit of a tour on route and lots of helpful hints to save us money travelling about...his taxi was extra special inside...i dont think i have seen just as much decoration inside one car.......the traffic was so crazy it was seriously bumper to bumper for so long .....i felt a little tempted my the motorbike taxi's.....but only a little.....

the mall was vast........i felt dizzy standing on the ground and looking up at the never ending levels and the ceilings were quite low the higher you got...everyone and anyone had a few square feet that was their shop trying to make a living.......i think we must have only gotten round half of it before we decided we needed outside again........we took our taxi drivers advice and ventured for the sky train..



.it is the only way to travel around bangkok....up above all the traffic...it was great...slightly squashed as we jumped aboard at rush hour.......stuart decided we should walk the couple miles back to our hotel from the train stop......we walked through one of the parks and we so happened to be there while the national anthem was being played and everyone stood still until it was over...this happens every day at the same time..







.further up the park we heard music and came across several hundred people doing some funny form of aerobics...such the weird sight..........both of us really like bangkok....apart from the pollution ....there is so much variety and so much to discover......i look froward to investigating more in future trips.......