Journey from Bangkok to Hua Hin 🚌💎🍝

Hello everyone 👧.

_{This is the continuous story or part 2 of my previous post.}

Good morning

On the second day of my family's travel trip in Thailand, I have to wake up very early and go for buffet breakfast at 7.00am in the hotel restaurant. When I entered the restaurant with my family, we thought the breakfast was not ready yet. We only saw an old couple walking around and none of the hotel's customers sat on the table seats.

Oh, the breakfast buffet meal is ready to serve when I approached the food counter to have a look. Then, I immediately get my breakfast meal from the food counter. I think the old couple we saw just now was a bit shy about getting breakfast first. They just started getting their breakfast by following my lead.

_{Hello,anyone there?}

Leaving the hotel at 8.30am, we started our travel journey. On our tour guide's recommendation, we tour a few places in Bangkok first, then go to Hua Hin by road with our chartered tour bus.

It was traffic jam conditions in the morning. Inside the slow moving bus, the tour guide explained the surrounding buildings, people and other things that we saw from the bus. Among them was the roadside lottery that caught my family's attention.

Most of my family members are gamblers in buying lottery almost 3 times per week. They keen on asking more questions to the tour guide about these roadside lottery. If they got the chance, they wanted to try their luck on it.

_{Roadside lottery seller}

Another view that most intrigued us was the massive amount of cables on the electric pole. According to the tour guide, all the utilities services provided that required cables are hang on the poles in Thailand.

_{Amazing cable}

Grand Palace-Outside only

Instead of having a tour inside Bangkok's Grand Palace, we only stopped by outside the Grand Palace for pictures.

We felt weird about why we couldn't enter this tourist attraction, but then we understood after clarification with the tour guide. The answer is that our tour itinerary did not include a tour inside the Grand Palace. We just accept the fact and have lots of pictures with the Grand Palace's landmark as our background.

_{Grand Palace's landmark}

_{Building beside the Grand Palace-I forgot}

_{Family's photo}

Gems Gallery

Our next attraction is to visit the Gems Gallery. My family and I are not interested in visiting this place but the tour guide led us there. Gem means expensive for us. It's a bad choice for having a tour inside there on the second day of our travel visit in Thailand. We want to reserve our pocket money to spend on another day during our travel.

_{A bit scare to enter here}

_{Certified Gems Gallery}

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The representative of the Gems Gallery brought us into a small theatre room to watch the short documentary about their gems or products. End of the documentary, we were sent to a Gems workshop to watch the craftsmen process the refined gem.

_{Short movie time}

Then, we were guided to enter a beautiful yet scary place. A dark room with a variety of patterns sparkling gems displayed under dim light. When we only look at the gems, each of the price are more than the average of monthly income of us. We don't dare look more at the gems and only feel the aura while walking to the path of exit to escape from this place.

_{Someone trying to escape from the Gems Gallery}

We entered a souvenir shop after exiting the gallery. That place makes us can breathe after seeing things that we can afford to buy. We spent quite some time there shopping. I had bought things for myself, a pretty brooch and magnetic refrigerator magnets.

_{Only afford to buy this}

Lunch time

We have our lunch at the same hotel restaurant where we had our breakfast in the morning. It's lunch buffet.

Luckily our tour guide had made reservation seats for us, if not we definitely wouldn't have a seat for lunch there. During that time, there was a conference with a large group of people inside the hotel. The hotel restaurant was full of this group of people having lunch there.

Even though there are lots of people inside the restaurant, the food at the food counter is always refilled.

_{Food for lunch}

To Hua Hin and rest stop

It's a long distance from Bangkok to reach our destination in Hua Hin for 3 hours by road with traffic congested. When I still awake with my stomach full of food from lunch and during the journey to our destination inside a tour bus, the tour guide got showed us the location of the famous murder case of Tang Mo incurred.

_{See you again Bangkok}

Afterward, not sure how many minutes had passed, my eyes closed and I fell asleep inside the bus.

Without anyone waking me up, I managed to awake from my sleep just before reaching a rest stop. The tour guide let us have a toilet break and at the same time gave us time to have a tour around the rest stop.

_{Rest stop}

_{No translation and look at the picture only}

_{Stalls and shops around the rest stop}

_{Boost with caffein before next tour}

My auntie treated my sister and I to a bottle of coffee for each of us so we did not fall asleep again on the tour bus. I also ate some fruits as a snack which I bought from the stalls at the rest stop until the bus reached the next tourist attraction or mini zoo farm at Hua Hin. I will share about my tour in this place more in my next post.

That's all. Thanks for reading my post.