20B Taffy candy (like Abba Zabba) 25B Orange juice 27B Internet @ 1B/2min 15B Sock rental for Grand Palace free* ride around west Bangkok 200B entrance to Grand Palace 20B entrance to Wat Pho 20B* ride to Siam Square 40B Boba (Milk Tea) 70B ride to train station 40B two bottles of water @ 1.5L/bottle

THEN: Do NOT believe the tuk-tuk drivers or helpful Thais who point you to them and tell you about the surrounding attractions. If they tell you something is closed, even only until 1500, do not believe them, however nice they seem. If money is more valuable than time then you can score a free ride pretty easily by letting them drive you to a silk shop or something, but if you have limited time that’s probably not the case. Reasonable fares are around 40B to 90B, depending on the distance (e.g. Siam Square to Banglamphu for 60B-70B).

NOW: If you can’t get them to go below 100B, just take a metered taxi. I was still pretty upset about the tuk-tuk drivers because I’d fallen for it AGAIN, so I didn’t take the time to write about the cool stuff I’d seen. The Grand Palace is amazing. It is very large and has a lot of neat gold stupas and lots of Buddha figures. Wat Pho has the famous reclining Buddha (if you’ve never seen a picture, think of the song One Night in Bangkok). I took the tuk-tuk again to Siam Square for about 10 minutes just to get that boba. I was craving it.