Ok first off, there are a couple things I just cannot get use to yet. The first is the outlet's here. I'm so confused whether or not i should / can use them. I have asked the other two to plug in my computer, phone, charger etc because i'm afraid to!
The other is brushing my teeth via bottled water. Uhg!
Well we started off jumping into the bowl of fruit that was delivered to our room last night. out of the 4 different kinds of fruit on the plate I knew of 1. a Plantain. The other three well it was an experience tasting new fruit. We still don't know what the other three are. The little ocean creature looking fruit was actually pretty sweet and delicious. The other two one being some sort of an orange/tangerine type of fruit was also within reason. The other small apple thingy was a bit tastless.
Breakfast was a buffet. I wanted Bacon Egg's and Pancakes. is that too difficult to ask for? Buffet it was. The bacon was DISCUSTING!!!! and the egg's were, uhm different. However the pancakes were just fine! edible i guess you could say. and the fruit.
Once breakfast was done and i downed a couple cups of coffee i was craving Starbucks. So easily and conveniently located right across the sky bridge I decided to venture over this morning to get my shot of caffeine. As I advanced out the front door's it immediately hit me that something was awry. It was quiet. Ominous. Eerie. Traffic was stopped. Police / military were all over and "SOMETHING" was happening right at the corner. The officials were preventing people from walking around. I was stuck on the sky bridge at a location that prevented me from reaching my destination. I was stuck in the middle of a group of people, while something was happening. Was it a bomb? was it a protest? Was it just some vagrant lying in the middle of the street? I have not clue but the "officials" were preventing people from going anywhere. I now realized there were hundred's of military personnel storming the streets, blocking people, cars, motorcycles, and dog's. Yes Dog's. It was scarey. I just wanted to get back to my hotel room 22 floors above all of this and sit and watch as whatever possibly is in the garbage can's explode. As soon as I started crying it was over and I was able to make it safely to my beloved Starbucks. Short hot mocah please! with Whip!
Ronald McDonald here in Bangkok is CREEPY!!!!!
With my Mocah in hand, I quickly ran back to my room and locked myself inside. well until our private driver arrived to take us to Pattaya! The drive took a good hour and a half. The whole reason we decided to go to Pattaya is the beach. you have this idea that Thailand is the fantastic beautiful beachy resort. However Bangkok is far from it. you'r told to go to Phuket, Koh Samui or pattaya. We decided to head to Pattaya with our private driver for the day.
WARNING! FROM THIS POINT ON IN THIS SPECIFIC BLOG I'M GOING TO BE BLUNT ABOUT MY OPINIONS, AND THE EXPERIENCES THAT WE HAD DURING THIS VISIT. DUE TO THE GRAPHIC NATURE AND EXPERIENCES, THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT I'D SUGGEST YOU STOP READING. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO CONTINUE AND VOMIT, I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR YOU. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED AND WERE STUPID ENOUGH TO KEEP READING!
The ride to Pattaya was very nice! enjoyable. and quick. The driver drove like a crazy mad man in a race to kick some ass. i dont know what 120 kilometers is in MPH but it was fast and we were passing everyone! The drivers here are quite crazy and reckless. I dont know of any reckless drivers and this guy scared the poopy out of me! I think i left him a gift!
once dropped of on the beach we began to walk along the 3 Kilometer walk. within about 30 steps onto the beach we get "questioned" by a couple youth. We did not really understand what they were saying at the time and we all questioned them again. Again they spoke in gibberish and we just kept walking. Moments later we realized they just propositioned us for sex!
The next 3 Kilometers of beach had about one person every 5' who would proposition us for a "Boat to the Island" or "Jet ski?". if you do the math that will add up to about 2000 people asking us for "Boat to the island?" or "Jet Ski?". This got old very quickly so we began to answer back "No hablo ingles. hablas Espanol?" which quickly got them looking puzzled. many would just walk on and our plan worked "kind of" until we were answered back in Spanish. At that time we quickly asked "Spreken si deutsch?"
Due to all of the see shells on the beach we decided to walk on the brick path/sidewalk between the beach and road. Even at noon there seemed to be a lot of People just sitting along the path. it didn't take long for another proposition for sex came along. This time from a very old skanky looking woman. as we continued to walk down the propositions grew until it was just a stream of women, men, girls and boy's asking for sex. We decided to move back down to the beach to continue the walk.
When we neared the end of the beach the aroma of pee, deification and vomit filled the air and grew in intensity. it was a great sign that we should turn back. so we headed back through to mob of prostitutes and sales men making our goal the unknown. We were just hungry, hot and about to throw up. Our idea of Pattaya has been shattered. This time as we walked along the path we notice that the amount of old creepy men had intensified and many of them hot very YOUNG Thai girls on their arm. This really disgusted all of us. One individual shocked us as he was not soliciting sex but drugs. He was really into his sales pitch as we quickly walked away from him and headed over to the Hilton for lunch.
Our lunch was conducted at a buffet of some sort. it had multiple ethnicities of food stations. you receive a "Card" and each item you buy you give them this card. They scan it and hand it back to you. I had, what else the Fried Rice with Chicken! when you exit you pay.
At this point we decided to get a Thai Massage. Get your head out of the gutter. A real Thai massage. Not a massage with happy ending, or a sexual favor or whatever else you are thinking dirty! We wanted a real massage but in this disgusting town we had no idea where to go. So we went and asked the Hotel Concierge for a recommendation of a trustworthy massage spa. We were in luck there was one very close by.
The massage was fantastic. all three of us got a massage at the same time. we all shared a "Room" and had to wear these gowns. The masseuse's arrived and laid towels on us which made it much more professional and we felt more comfortable. The massage was fantastic. Now honestly yes they got VERY CLOSE to the junk and i'm sure they got "Accidentally touched". it was quite uncomfortable a couple times as the masseuse walked the line/fence and probably leaned over without actually crossing the line. However in all it was very professional and soon over.
We decided it was time to get away from this town and just go back into Bangkok and go shopping and clubbing. But first we had to walk the trail back to our driver. This time the crown had intensified and we witnessed quite a few "Situations" that we really did not want to see! Actually I cannot even explain so i'm posting some photo's.
Back to the big city of Bangkok for shopping we went. We started out at a legit mall and quickly moved to the black market mall! There I bought a couple pairs of Jeans. Rode the BTS back to the hotel for a quick shit, shower & Shave!
And then dinner, then Virtigo (A BAR with Alcohol) and then we are heading out to the clubs!
So we decided to eat at the hotel because another Drenching rain storm hit the area with thunder and lightning. We had a very deep discussion on whether we want to go out in this rain soaked night with us all dressed up. This is where we were going to go;
But we ended up sitting in the bar and drinking beer and eating Creme Brule;
