AIM House, Bangkok, Day 4

This hotel room is hard to get up in. That is one of the main problems when staying in a nice place. In a ten pound a night room with no natural light and nothing but a fan to keep you cool, it is a lot easier to be out and about in the cool of the morning. We end up surfacing at around 11, and hop onto the skytrain heading for Siam.
In Siam we plan to walk around the markets, but there doesn't seem to be much there. We eat dinner in a nive vegetarian restaurant served by a waitress who barely acknowleges us as she slams our plates down on the table, and head to the Platinum fashion mall. The mall is air conditioned which is nice, but it is the kind of cramped and chaotic place that fills me with dread. The clothes don't seem too great, so I leave Amy to wander on her own for a bit and sit and wait. After around about an hour we leave and head back onto the skytrain and back to the hotel. It is hard to not spend all day exploring, especially when there is not long left, but the heat is just unbearable. We chill out for a few hours and enjoy a break.
After the mid-afternoon hours have passed and it isn't quite so hot, we head back onto the skytrain and aim for Lumphini park. The park is a beautiful, peaceful place, and is also famous for the massive monitor lizards that roam the grounds. We see plenty of them, either wandering on the grass verge or slowly gliding through the water, and a rather curious turtle who keeps popping his head off and looking at the bread that we feed the fish with. The views are incredible as we enjoy another amazing Bangkok sunset for the second day in a row. It would be a lovely opportunity for a beer but today is a Buddhist holiday and therefore no alcohol is sold or drunk right through the country.
We spend a while walking around the park and watching the hundreds of runner sweating away as they circle the many lakes. There is also a very energetic instructor showing a huge crowd what to do as they bounce and kick along to some bass heavy pop song. Every night this happens I guess, as people congregate to exercise together as the sun goes down. It looks fun but we don't join in as it is still too hot for anything more then a slow walk.
It is time to eat. We walk for what feels like ages trying to find some grub but all the restaurants are incredibly expensive. We pass bars that look rather too raunchy for our taste, and walk through a very busy market before we jump back on the skytrain and head to the pier we got the ferry from yesterday. We are starting to get desparate when we find a huge food centre with loads of different stalls. The food is great, the sweet and sour especially, and very cheap. The fact that this is only a minute on the skytrain away is good news!
We head back after eating and get some rest. It has been another long day and we are both pretty knackered so it won't take us long to get to sleep.もっと詳しく