My good friend Michele whom I met while in Budapest met me
in Bangkok late on Friday night. Since
our biological clocks are still a little off, we woke up at about 6:30 am ready
to start our Saturday. We planned on heading
out to the Grande Palace first, a must see when in Bangkok. After an hour drive into the city with all
the congestion and traffic we were ready for a free tour in English around 10
am. As soon as the taxis unloaded us, we went to purchase our
tickets in order to enter the Palace. A nice (so we thought) Thai man approached
us and asked where we are from, what we were doing in Thailand and spoke enough
English to keep us intrigued for a few moments.
Our new friend then explained to us that the Palace is only open to Thai
nationals on Saturday mornings until noon.
Michele and I were completely bummed because
our daily planned had been thrown off and we didn’t know what our next move
needed to be. He looked at our map and
showed us different places we needed to go and also told us that our cab driver
that brought us to the Palace ripped us off, which we already knew. The Golden
Buddha, an expat center, and another stop were suggestions he told us to take
until noon when we could come back and see the Grande Palace. He said, “You take tuk-tuk 100 Baht, den come
back Grande Palizz. Ok?” You can imagine how thrilled we were to have our
morning planned out for us and at that price! Yippy, we’re thinking. He
talks with a tuk-tuk man we hop on and zip through the back streets to the
Golden Buddha. For those who aren’t familiar
with a tuk-tuk, it’s like a glorified go-cart that is street legal. 
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