Ancient City
Daddy Kong came and went - hence no blogging. Coming over from Shanghai was a nightmare as he got stuck at Pudong airport for 10 hours - the typhoon had hit China. Apparently all 48 flights were grounded and no planes could land. Various tour groups arranged accommodation for their clients but poor dad was travelling by himself. He made a big fuss however and secured himself a nice suite at the Howard Plaza thankfully.
When he at last arrived in Bangkok, he was remarkably chipper and eager to get out and about. During the week I tried to think of various photo opportunties: the Grand Palace again, Chinatown, Jim Thompson's, Lumpini Park, Vertigo, umm, the zoo... But I can say that the best place that we went to was Ancient City - let's call it a cultural and historical theme park which gathers scale and life size models of the best and beautiful temples, sculptures and houses within Thailand. I know, it could sound awfully tacky - mini-Europe in Brussels anyone? - but was actually wonderful and very interesting. Here are a few pics:
The above buffalo was very real. I thought it was tied up so joyfully went to take a picture. As soon as it saw me, it plodded very steadily towards me. I very quickly backed off. My dad has a picture somewhere of me running away from it.
And because it was on the way, here's one of the crocodile farm.
Very interestingly, it was full of mainland Chinese tour groups. In the show, the two Thai crocodile-wrestlers incorporated Mandarin into their show. Definitely the next big market that the tourism authority should be cultivating.
When he at last arrived in Bangkok, he was remarkably chipper and eager to get out and about. During the week I tried to think of various photo opportunties: the Grand Palace again, Chinatown, Jim Thompson's, Lumpini Park, Vertigo, umm, the zoo... But I can say that the best place that we went to was Ancient City - let's call it a cultural and historical theme park which gathers scale and life size models of the best and beautiful temples, sculptures and houses within Thailand. I know, it could sound awfully tacky - mini-Europe in Brussels anyone? - but was actually wonderful and very interesting. Here are a few pics:
The above buffalo was very real. I thought it was tied up so joyfully went to take a picture. As soon as it saw me, it plodded very steadily towards me. I very quickly backed off. My dad has a picture somewhere of me running away from it.
And because it was on the way, here's one of the crocodile farm.
Very interestingly, it was full of mainland Chinese tour groups. In the show, the two Thai crocodile-wrestlers incorporated Mandarin into their show. Definitely the next big market that the tourism authority should be cultivating.
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