Subject: Post: Bangkok passed after a morning flight from Da Nang. As usual we deposited the fat boy (our 30kg bag) in the CentralwOrld shopping mall baggage storage. Before that we attempted to leave the bags at the railway station, but unfortunately the fat thing did not fit the storage lockers. The other bags could be left there though, so it was just one bag to drag through the busy shopping mall... As an additional bonus the shopping mall had some kind of Japan Expo going on, with huge crowds of cosplay hobbyists in their anime suits...We visited the Finnish embassy to vote, bought some random stuff in a diving shop like a dive flashlight and had tasty sushi. Add shopping for some cables, visiting a camera store and attempting to buy local sim cards and that was quite a bit of program for our short stop in the city.We also learnt finally that using taxi to reach the city from the railway station is stupid. The city traffic is so stuck that it takes an hour, while a metro to a nearby station takes maybe 10 minutes. Still need taxi between the metro station and the railway station, but there the traffic flows normally.Now in the night train to Chumphon and in the morning we should continue to Tao with a speedboat. Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
Bangkok passed after a morning flight from Da Nang. As usual we deposited the fat boy (our 30kg bag) in the CentralwOrld shopping mall baggage storage. Before that we attempted to leave the bags at the railway station, but unfortunately the fat thing did not fit the storage lockers. The other bags could be left there though, so it was just one bag to drag through the busy shopping mall... As an additional bonus the shopping mall had some kind of Japan Expo going on, with huge crowds of cosplay hobbyists in their anime suits...
We visited the Finnish embassy to vote, bought some random stuff in a diving shop like a dive flashlight and had tasty sushi. Add shopping for some cables, visiting a camera store and attempting to buy local sim cards and that was quite a bit of program for our short stop in the city.
We also learnt finally that using taxi to reach the city from the railway station is stupid. The city traffic is so stuck that it takes an hour, while a metro to a nearby station takes maybe 10 minutes. Still need taxi between the metro station and the railway station, but there the traffic flows normally.
Now in the night train to Chumphon and in the morning we should continue to Tao with a speedboat.
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