After a nice day in Pattaya yesterday, we left in the morning and headed back to Bangkok. We were dropped off at The Ambassador Hotel. We waited to be checked in and eventually they managed to find a room for us on a non-smoking floor. The room was nice with a small balcony overlooking the swimming pool. The swimming pool looked very inviting, and I should have gone for a swim right then and there instead of keeping that for later time. But at that time I didn’t know that with all the activities we had planned in Bangkok that later time would never come.
We took the City Tour in the afternoon and visited the Golden Buddha.
The next stop was the Reclining Buddha temple and we also got a taste of the famous Bangkok traffic.
We got to see beautiful Thai temple art and architecture.
There were some other things on the list but we couldn’t see everything due to the lack of time, and of course there was a mandatory stop at the Gems Factory, but this time we actually bought a little something.
We had reservations for a Dinner Cruise on the Chao Phraya river. We reached the registration desk and were assigned to board Chao Phraya Princess III. We were waiting on the waterfront for our boat to arrive. I was bending over to see if I can see anything in the water and the sunglasses which I was wearing over my head fell straight into the river. That made me a little upset, but I got over it soon enough.
We were seated on the lower deck of the boat on a table with a window. As soon as the boat started, people hit the buffet. There were a lot of different items served. It was difficult to even be able to taste everything offered. So we decided to just walked around and check what was available and only focus on what we like the most. It was truly a gastronomic delight. As we enjoyed our dinner we were cruising along the Chao Phraya river. We cruised under many beautiful bridges, which were superbly lit up at night as we saw Bangkok pass by on either side. After the cruise and dinner we were dropped back to our hotel looking forward to the next day.