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Posted by pythagnz | 22nd May 2009
Our penultimate day in Thailand and again we went our separate ways to do what we both love doing - Katherine to shop in a scrap-booking shop and me to ride a bicycle. Luckily the starting point for both was in the same vicinity.
My bicycle trip was with ABC - Amazing Bangkok Cyclist. My guide was Apple and I was the only customer for the day as the other people had pulled out at. That made the trip a bit faster but that was ok as we had an appointment to meet my friend Lee on the other side of Bangkok.
The first half of the ride was on the Bangkok side of the Chao Praya River. We wound through little alleyways and busy roads and stopped to look at the life of ordinary Thai people. There are a lot of backyard businesses - people making shoes, selling desserts etc. At the halfway point of the tour we hired a long-tail boat to cross the river. While crossing I knocked my camera so it wouldn't open and close. This was a bummer as the Samut Prakan side of the river was beautiful and
Continued | Looking through Lanna Land
02 May 2009 - 23 May 2009
Visiting: New Zealand, Thailand and New Zealand.
07 May 2007 - 29 May 2007
Visiting: New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.
Visiting: Thailand.
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