I wanted to have a holiday badly to de-stress and decided to go to Bangkok for some retail therapy and tom yum goong. My girlfriends were not free to go with me as it was a last minute decision so the 3 of us went as our family vacation. When I made the bookings, Bangkok was not ruled by the military yet. So I was kind of worried before the trip and have been monitoring the news daily. Our Thai friends told us not to worry and just go for our holiday. I am glad we did because we had a great time in Bangkok. Shopping was great and the food was simply awesome.
Hubs holding Ashley’s hand while we walked to the Erawan Shrine to pray. See the black knapsack on hubs? That’s for the shopping loot. He brings this bag out each time we go shopping in Bangkok 🙂
The Four Face Buddha at Erawan Shrine
On the first day, we went to Platinum mall for retail therapy. Shopped till I almost dropped while hubs and Ashley waited for me at the food court on the 6th floor. Then later in the evening, we took a boat ride to Asiatique. Had a lovely seafood dinner there and more shopping.
Shopping at Chatuchak on the 2nd day. It was very hot there but good place for shopping.
My favourite cafe at Siam Paragon. I love their Thai Fusion food.
This was the only time we saw soldiers during our stay in Bangkok. It was the 3rd day (Sunday) and there was supposed to be a protest in front of the hotel we stayed in at Ratchprasong. The protest didn’t take place there eventually as it was being lock-down by the military. So the protestors went to Terminal 21 shopping mall instead. We were already in Siam Paragon at 10am so it didn’t bother us. Relatively it was very safe in Bangkok. The military was there to control so that there will not be any chaos. Do stay tuned on where we went next 😉
