Andy, Sietse and I entered The Grand Palace, this place is huge and has a beautiful temple to the side of it. There are great stone warriors guarding all the entrances and around the temple walls are intricate paintings telling an epic story. The Buddhist Monks were chanting inside the great temple sits a lavish gold Buddha, with candles surrounding it. We splashed some water blessed by the monks on our faces. We couldn't access some parts of the Palace due to a royal funeral taking place. After looking in a pretty abismal museum we started chatting to a local who told us about some hidden gems of Bangkok to check out; Wattahi, Glorious and Watin. So we traveled by tooktook to Wattahi, we sat with the monks in the shadow of the largest Buddha statue I have ever seen. Glorious is a suit fitter of the highest quality, this is genuinely where all the Armani suits are made, they just put the label on in Milan. This was a rare situation though because usually Glorious is only open to the Thai people and no westerners are allowed to buy a suit, but due to the floods sales werent so high so the government had opened the shop to tourists for 1 week only. So essentially you could buy a fitted Armani suit (minus the labels) for 250pounds, and this included a membership card to buy as many suits as you like in the future. It was so tempting but in the end couldn't be justified, the tooktook driver took us to another tailors called James' Fashion when the tailors explained as the floods get higher the prices get lower. Watin had another Buddah statue standing well over 6 stories tall and many monks.
Later in the night we went to the top of Sky Bar, a rather posh restaurant with outdoor panoramic views overlooking the whole of Bangkok. It is also where a lot of The Hangover 2 was filmed. We had the cocktail named after the movie, it wasn't the cheapest but the views were worth it, Bangkok looks best at night.
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