After purchasing a phone card at the local 7/11 and letting my parents know that I am alive, Igor & I headed out for the first Thai meal in Bangkok. After walking for 10 minutes, we stopped at a place called Roti-Mataba and had the small but tasty breakfast. I found the flavours of the food to be very similar to the food I had in East Malaysia. Even plain chicken currey with rice was bursting in familiar flavours. For the side dish we had the chicken mataba. It consists of roti-like bread stuffed with chicken and spices which is served with sweet/spicy dipping sauce.
Alright, saying "and then, and then, and then..." is not interesting so I shall change my style from here on.
The Grand palace was hands down amazing. I could not believe that human beings could construct architectures of such awe and beauty that it literally takes one's breath away. But the best piece of work that I saw in the Grand Palace was the Emerald Buddha. It is a small figureen roughly couple feet tall/wide made of gold and with the face made of (you guessed it) emerald. The awe produced by this figureen itself is astounding. Buddhists from all over (includng tourists) could not walk with a straight posture when walking out of the place and those who are sitting and admiring the figure could not point their feet towards the figure.
So here is the deal with Thailand - the first and only great advice that we received was from a Pot head Canadian (Canadians rock!!!) from Vancouver Island. "Never trust anybody. Not the locals, and definitely not the farangs (foreigners)". So with this scepticism implemented into our vertebrai we began our journey into the great unknown. Another advice that the pot head gentleman gave us was that we should to Ko Phan-Ngan (pronounced similar to Copenhagen) as it is a place for "younger/more energetic" crowd. So we decided to follow with the advice and bought 2 tickets to Ko Phan-Ngan which would include a 12 hour bus ride and a 5 hour boat ride.
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