Thailand is called the Land of Smiles because the Thais really do “smiles” , yim in Thai means thirteen smiles which represents expressing your inner world. They're like the Eskimos with all their different terms for snow .
About – I was in pursuit of happiness, that can only be fulfill by an adventurous, refreshing, wonder journey with my love. Planning is always be the first step to move forward, but this time it starts exactly six months before the journey with obstacles as office work and our new home setup, but as always, long Patience ends with Sweet memories.
Thailand -Thailand is a unique country having Full of adventures, trills, massages, loving smiles, pubs, lights and beaches. I made my first trip to Thailand and instantly fell in love with the country and it’s people who always admire you with their smile and Swadika, a warm welcome of Thai people. I think I must say that Thai tourism is owned by sweet Thai girls. Wherevar you go, you can see girls, form hotel reception to tour guide. Their main source of income is tourism, so you can feel like this is the lovely place in earth with lovely people. I guess any time half of the Thai population consists of tourists. And you can always see Indian honeymoon couples are in majority.
From Bangkok airport we took a Volvo bus for Pattaya, it took one and half hours for us to reach at Pattaya hotel.
Pattya City -
Coral Island Pattaya - Full of crystal clear water which is clearer than swimming pools.
We enjoyed jet sky, scuba diving, parcelling and played football with hands in sea water All were too exciting , thrilling and full of fun.
Scuba Diving had awesome experience, I feed fishes, that too while walking on under sea bed. Thanks to my swimming class at all these fun were not much scary.
Alcazar Cabaret– My hubby planned for this before flying for Thailand and it was awesome. Show was full of fashionable and traditional costumes with extraordinary screen set. They have all countries dance in the list. It's a must go thing for holiday at Thailand.
Fish Spa and Thai Massages- It was always be too relaxing when taking massage just beside the swimming pool and if the foot Spa is given by small fishes, nothing better than this.
At first, it was little scary but as time goes, it’s wonderful and Thai oil massage was amazing. If I compare Indian massages and body spa, Thai massage have best experience, their hand movement and stroke on your body really release pain.
Thai Food at Pattaya – Beaches always gives you great option of sea food. You can enjoy every thinkable option in Pattaya. Thai foods have its own kind of aromatic flavour with Thai basil. It strives to balance fundamental flavours -hot, sour, sweet, salty and bitter. We enjoyed the famous Thai Tom Yom soup. Thai sea foods are very cheap and everywhere even at road side shops also you can get lots of option, the only thing if you love sea food.
For veggies it could be difficult to get proper veg food as everything from cup noodles to KFC veg burger comes with some non-veg toppings, also if you are chicken core non veggie you can also find some difficulties to get it. Some Indian restaurants are there to delight you with Indian food.
Hotels in Pattaya – Any beach spot you go, best hotels would be just near the beach and main road, where you can enjoy at beach any time and also get shops and mall near to your hotel.
We stayed at A-One Royal cruise. http://www.a-onehotel.com/pattaya/ Best part is that hotel is on middle of beach road and we can enjoy beach any time we want. Thai massage parlour, Hard Rock café and the famous Alcazar show located at same beach road at Pattaya.
Bangkok city – We stayed at hotel The Peninsula Bangkok. Most admirable thing about this hotel is it’s beside the river and has a royal cuisine with awesome lunch and dinner buffet.
The Buddhist temples of Bangkok -Thailand are actually very beautiful and interesting. The predominant religion of Thailand is Buddhism and one will find many temples or Wats that bear the reflections of this religion. Thai people usually offer prayers to Buddha, so almost all famous temple have Buddha statues inside. But shockingly, you can also find Ganesha, Shiv-Parvati and Vishnu temple. We visited these Buddhist temples of Bangkok -
The Wat Arun or the Temple of Dawn - It is a well-known Buddhist temple of Bangkok, Thailand and it is situated on the western bank of the Chao Phraya River. It was built in the 17th Century and has attractive prangs that are a type of a pagoda. These are adorned with millions of pieces of Chinese porcelain.
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Wat Pho, the Wat Phra Chetuphon, and Temple of Reclining Buddha - This is among the famous Buddhist temples in Bangkok, Thailand. It is located at the Chetuphon Road. It is the largest and most ancient one of its kind with 95 pagodas, which is the highest in Bangkok. The gigantic Reclining Buddha statue, 15 meters tall and 46 meters long, is an attraction of the temple. This is also the original Thai Open University offering courses in literature, astrology, archaeology and medicine. At present it is known internationally for the Thai Traditional Massage School. The school offers knowledge in general Thai massage, foot massage and therapeutic and healing massage and offers a wide variety of massage treatments as well.
Wat Traimit, Temple of the Gold Buddha - It is among the most recognizable Buddhist temples in Bangkok, Thailand. The most amazing feature of this temple is the fact that the 3 meter tall Buddha image is made up of 5.5 tons of solid gold.
Wat Suthat - It offers a fine blend of Chinese and Thai art, something that was in vogue when King Rama III ruled. The major attraction is big cast bronze statue of Buddha that was built in the 14th century.
Chatuchak Weekend Market - is still pretty much the undisputed king of all other markets in Bangkok. The scale of it is pretty unbelievable - it covers an area of 35 acres, contains more than 15 000 shops and stalls. The range of products on sale is extensive, and includes household accessories, handicrafts, home decoration items, night lamps, art, antiques, books, music, clothes, food, plants and flowers etc... We did almost 80 per cent of our shopping form this market.
At Chatuchak, prices are generally substantially cheaper than the shopping centres, if you use your bargaining power here. The best way to get here is on the Skytrain, Mo Chit station is only about five minutes’ walk away from the market. Finding your way from the station is easy - just follow the large crowd of people that will also be heading to/from there.
We purchased shoes, earrings, belt ,key rings of Angel, demon and guitar buddy, night lamps and night lamp series, cap, plant decoration item (small birds pin can decorated you flower pot), stickers for cloths, all items are too good.
Siam Center and Siam Ocean world (largest aquarium in Southeast Asia) –
The 10000 square metre world class aquarium occupying two levels of Siam Paragon, Bangkok’s has the capacity to hold more than 4 million litres of water (equivalent to 3 Olympic swimming pools) .It showcases more than 30,000 marine animals and as many as 400 aquatic species. I enjoyed movements
of Seals,
Blue Ringed Octopus, Ragged-tooth sharks, Stingrays, Leafy Sea Dragons, Giant Spider Crabs and others.
After scuba diving at Pattaya, again I felt like I am inside the ocean surrounded by these underwater miracle spices.
Chinese New Year: The Year of the Rabbit
Red lanterns are hanging throughout Pattaya and the Thai’s are stoking their grills and makeshift flower pots burning gifts of red envelopes, decorated golden boxes and trinkets to send to their departed loved ones in the afterlife. Dragon dances and fireworks are also on the menu for the next few days which will always make for some fun.
