Chao Praya River Cruise

Today we have the whole day for ourselves so we sleep a bit longer. After the buffet breakfast, we took the Airport Link Rail to take us to Chao Praya for some surprise...river cruising. Chao Praya is a notable river in Thailand used not only for tours but for major transportation in Bangkok. 

Good morning Bangkok!

From Skytrain, we transferred to Silom Line to take us to the last station Bang Wa then take the boat to cruise Chao Praya. I've read so many tourist warnings that  scammers are likely present approaching tourists and pretending to be government officers and offer some tour package claiming some temples are closed that day, but then they will bring you to some shops and will force you to buy something.

From Bang wa, we walked a little to the  boat terminal. Some locals as approached us with brochures and telling us the boat service is about to leave. We politely declined that we don’t want to take the private boat but will take the public transit. We asked one local but he sound mad, even shouting at us (maybe because we did not took his tour he was speaking in Thai). We made our way to the booth to get tickets not minding the guy. We paid Bhat20 per head for the boat ride. Few minutes after the boat arrived to take us to Wat Pho and to the Grand Palace.

Overall, it was just ok. The view was not that exceptional except for Chinese temples, a floating restaurant, a mall and quite a number of constructions going on. The whole boat ride experience was very Thai but personally not even comparable to our Bohol river in my own opinion, but it was a good experience!


Please see also our Wat Pho Tour


Love,
itsmelory (^.^)