Bangkok, Thailand>, May 15, 2009
Friday morning at 7am, I wake up and look out the window of my hotel room to see it rain! But I was pretty optimistic that the sun would come out soon.
I wake Joann after I’ve showered and change to get ready for a tour of some of the more popular temples in Bangkok. We paid for a tour of Wat Arun (across the Chao Phraya river), Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha) and Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha) plus the Royal Palace, or so we thought.
Forty five minutes later, we’re downstairs just in time for breakfast but it’s still raining. Fifteen minutes later, the guy from the tour office asked if we were the duo who paid for the temple tour. We say yes, and follow him to a van,or minibus, while he takes to the next street in front of 3-star hotel where our actual guide waits for us in another van with three other tourists, and we’re off to see the temples… in the rain!