The last day of the tour consisted of 2 parts. The morning we rode from Autthaya to the Queen’s Palace, which was about 30km. Then we were bussed in to Bangkok where that evening we would do a night tour around Bangkok.
I woke up drunk, not even hungover, grabbed some breakfast and packed my bags. We headed off on our bikes, I was really sleepy considering I had about 3-4 hours sleep. Our firsts top was the Buddha head inside a tree, looked interesting snapped a picture, but after seeing maybe 4-5 temples per day for the past 9 days I was over temples. We got to one spot, I simply handed my camera to one of the people on the tour and said take a picture for me.
Our last stop in Autthaya was to feed some elephants and take some pictures. Afterwards we headed off to the Queen’s Palace for a bit of a history lesson. When we arrived at the Palace that signified the end of our cycling for the day. We headed into the palace, Woody gave us a tour and history lesson. Our guides were so knowledgable! After we finished the palace tour we went for lunch before our 1,5hr drive to Bangkok.
We arrived at our Bangkok hotel called the Majestic Grande Hotel with 25 floors, that’s almost the height of the highest building Cape Town, OMG! The hotel is in the Sukhumvit area where loads of westerners stayed in loads of hotels. Bangkok madness begins!
At 5:30pm we met downstairs in the lobby for before heading off to the starting point of our night tour. We were now on MTB bikes, before setting off we needed to attach lights and have a briefing on what would be happening. We slowly worked our way around the Chao Praya river, we went through small street alleys, past more temples, got a history lesson and stopped for food at the 24hr flower market! Crazy that a flower market will stay open 24hrs, Bangkok is amazing that way, it’s truly the city that never sleeps.
We ended the tour at the Grand Palace, where we met Pow and Mr Charlie our drivers. We said our good byes to Mr Tee and Pow. The Woody and Mr Charlie drove us home. Tom, Lue and I decided we were going to hit Pathong where the Pussy Ping Pong bars were.
It’s quite overwhelming seeing all the lights, we got harassed by loads of people trying to sell us tickets for the ping pong bars. Eventually after walking around a little we just went into a seedy little bar, sat down and ordered our free drink with our ticket.
The first woman was on stage and she started pulling out a string with flowers, it just kept coming out, our jaws dropped and we couldn’t believe. We saw a woman open soda bottles with bottle caps, balloons being burst with darts, candles being blown out, horns blown, OMG we could not believe what we were seeing.
We headed out of that place once near midnight because the same acts started being rerun, they had reached the end of their list of tricks. Got a lift back to the hotel and crashed for the night. So tired after previous nights dancing and drinking.
Ash Shaw 