Mekong Nomads – Day 3 – Sunday 30th November

We walk to pier via a new track that I’d suggested. The weather is still pleasant but a bit warmer than the last few days. Theres a crowd at the ferry station, a bit of jostling for position and no Aussies that I could hear. The Navigator isn’t smiling, she’s not happy with me making her walk so far, but I’m assuming she’ll get over it, unless she’d like to try and find her own way around with Google maps.

The 150 baht Day Pass on the Chao Praya Tourist Ferry is good value,  basically a hop on hop off boat. There are huge barges on the river, we assume rice going one way with 4 tugs pulling and 2 trailing, then coming empty back up river with one tug pulling and one trailing.

One full lap on the ferry then we stop at Wat Arun, I rest in the shade, they walk. A good arrangenent for me, I’ve been here twice before.

Back to Ratchawong Pier and we explore China Town, find a nice restaurant for a late lunch. Its a busy area, and has its own vibe.

We walk 10 minutes to Talat Noi area, its an old fusion Chinese/ Portugese/ Vietnamese area, there are murals, colourful man hole covers  painted all colours. The river is right beside it.

We decide a tuk tuk ride home is the go and as we agree to do this a tuk tuk pulls up and disgorges his customers, we negotiate 300bahtto get us home. We probably needed him to pay us danger money, we drove on wrong side of the road, fast, disco lights and doof doof music blaring. But, we got home in one piece.

A walk to Khaosan Road, a massage and dinner finishes the day.

Dave has a new nickname ” Telegram Sam”, its a long story!

Tomorrow we move on to Chiang Mai

Ciao from Bangkok

Pauolo