Bangkok-shopping, floating market & safari world

pic by Rizqiah, Floating Market at Damnoen Saduak, is one of the main attraction places at Bangkok.

pic by Rizqiah, morning view from the Hotel Diamond Suites with the beautiful sunrise in between the busy road on weekdays.

Bangkok, Thailand is our first destination for the overseas trip as a family. We reserved a hotel in Bangkok earlier even before we travel there via hotel.com or you can reserve via any web that hosting for hotel reservations.

We choose to stay near Pratunam as we found that location as the best place to go if you are interested to get good deals of products & definitely for the wholesale rate. Platinum is the new mall where it is completely new building with the contemporary look. However, the Bobae tower is another place where you can get all the items at a wholesale rate but the building is super old totally opposite to the platinum mall.

pic by Rizqiah, morning view from the Hotel Diamond Suites with the beautiful sunrise in between the busy road on weekdays.

We did explore lots of new products that we don’t find in Malaysia & some items are really cheap, you can bargain well at Pratunam market. It’s an advantage if you know their language because most of them don’t really understand English. Usually, any bargaining matter can be done using a calculator 😄. Pratunam has lots of imitation jewelry, interesting fashion clothing, leather made shoes & purse or wallet, lady purse made of the stingray is an attraction there.

We also took some time to spend at floating market at Damnoen Saduak. It’s a really a refreshing ride in the morning, where you can get so many items, from breakfast, coffee, fruits, souvenirs, clothes, traditional foods, interesting stop where you can see sugar made from coconut lively and it's really delicious 😋, we actually brought back some for the family. We did enjoy the elephant ride at the streamside, my son enjoyed that ride as well, but seriously you will feel super sleepy & like someone is actually massaging you while having the elephant 🐘 ride.

pic by Rizqiah, a cute grandma there!

pic by Rizqiah, this is how boats are being stacked near there.

pic by Rizqiah, I just love to see how she eats in the boat, yummy!

pic by Rizqiah, an old guy sitting in a boat and looking for something maybe a ride.

pic by Rizqiah, the boats there little congested but it's really a great fun!

pic by Rizqiah, it's one of the souvenir shops situated along the riverside.

pic by Rizqiah, this lady is selling a cute innovated fan, where it can be transformed into the hat too.

pic by Rizqiah, you can even get fresh lobster.

pic by Rizqiah, I actually bought my breakfast here, mango rice, seriously delicious!

pic by Rizqiah, fruitseller! yummy fruits.

pic by Rizqiah, here you can find most of the boat riders are the ladies & they are really strong.

pic by Rizqiah, there is a stop for Buddhist temple as the last stop before the end of the boat ride.

Safari park is another attraction where you can feed tiger (cub) while it lies on your lap ( lil creepy hehe & to add on the odds, my son almost poke the tiger's eye 😱). Besides that, there are also lots of staged shows, cowboy & Hollywood theme & also dolphins show.

pic by Rizqiah, my baby & husband having their great time with the parrot.

pic by Rizqiah, lovebirds.

pic by Rizqiah, one of the crews with the dolphin.

pic by Rizqiah, during the dolphins' show, the man was lifted up by both the dolphins, they are well-trained.

pic by Rizqiah, the crowd are enjoying the shows at the safari world.

pic by Rizqiah, during the cowboy show.

pic by Rizqiah, during a cowboy show, the moment where a lady got kidnapped.

by Rizqiah, during the Hollywood show, it was a huge blast and look realistic.

by Rizqiah, the jet ski rider towards the end of the Hollywood show.

by Rizqiah, the hero of the Hollywood show was in action to shoot a man, the setting was awesome.

pic by Rizqiah, during the cowboy show.

pic by Rizqiah, during the cowboy show.

All the pictures above I took using a DSLR camera D7200, with prime lens, 50 mm and also zooming lens 70-200 mm.

However some pictures below here I took by using iPhone and posting here just to share some of our memories while being there.

pic was taken by phone-we took some pictures with this tamed cub, I'm sure you can see that my son keeps on aiming the cub's eyes huhu oh no!

pic was taken by phone- the elephant rider is ready for the next ride

pic was taken by phone- we enjoyed our elephant ride

pic was taken by phone- this is how and where the coconut sugar is produced which required long hour cooking.

pic was taken by phone- thirst quenching coconut drink mixed with coconut sugar, in the background is the seller with the ready-made coconut sugar.

pic was taken by phone- Final pic, us with the cute lil dolphin and my son really love that dolphin!

We didn’t have much time to go other places as it was sort of business trip, hope to go more places in Thailand someday.

People in Thailand are usually very firm & tough, talking soft or sweet to strangers are perceived to be scammers. So watch out for scammers if they approach sweetly at Bangkok, kindly ignore them (Kind of cool method to identify scammers)😄. Especially those taxi drivers. The traffic rate slightly higher on weekdays. Taking a 'tuk-tuk' around the city is really a great fun.

Anyway, traveling help me to venture new people, new culture, different lifestyle, variety foodstuff, new kind fashions, of all my eyes can capture lots of beautiful stuff & my camera helped me to bring back lots of memories. Since I was a kid I really want to travel to lots of places to see this whole world, the people & their life. I want to collect all the amazing pictures of those various places. Here I have shared some pictures that I took in Bangkok & I wanna travel to new places to learn this life more. Cheers!🤗