After the 10k I had time to shower and eat breakfast at the pung-waan resort. The bus ride takes 4.5 hours to get back to Bangkok. The thought of 13 teenagers cooped up in a hotel or going to the mall is not the best option since we have no idea when our flight will be. Instead we rented vans that we had at our disposal for up to 9 hours. They took us to the canal boat tours to see different sights of Bangkok.
There is some fascinating street art outside of where we purchased the ride.
This is what the boat looked like.
The water was pretty choppy and difficult to get good pictures. Much like other areas you have really poor housing and a nicer house will appear next to it.
I was taking a picture of this bird (people who know me understand this) when I noticed the alligator next to it. A little hard to see in the picture and again tough to get a good picture in that type of boat.
Locals selling merchandise will approach the boat. Unfortunately it started pouring though we had some cover on the boat. I had exchanged numbers with the driver and let him know we were done with the boat tour. We were originally going to go to the grand Palace and the temples but their are strict dress code rules. As we had not planned on that sine if the students did not have long enough shorts. We took a car tour of the area instead and headed to a local market.
Thailand has the highest fatality of drivers and mostly of motorbike. I snapped this picture of a little dog on his owners shoulder (and is with the police). This is taken looking out or front windshield.
From here we went to the Night Market which opens at 5 and has food and clothes. I’ll write another post about that.
The driver was fairly decent with English and had a great sense of humour with the students. I had all of the girls with me. We asked questions and he taught them she Thai phrases.
This is the best explanation of hello and how to bow for respect. It is important in their culture. So is calling me madame much like the English would.