The golfing holiday has come to an end. I need another holiday to recover from it!
Bangkok will always be special for me, in terms of the company I go with, food I eat, things I do, sights I encounter and places I experience.
Goodbye Bangkok. Thanks for the memories. I will be back. Soon.
Now I know how my girls or children feel when the journey seems an eternity. Two hours on from the Floating Market, we are still hurtling along the elevated highway to return to Bangkok for lunch and some more shopping.
Thank goodness I managed to catch up on some sleep. The tummy is growling and a good Thai lunch seems like a good idea. I hope it will materialize.
It was a decent lunch, at the food court in the mall. We were given four hours before leaving for the airport. Four hours! What am I gonna do? I am not a shopaholic. Oh well, might as well try…
Two hours later.
I feel so tired. It is that theory of being in an enclosed place and a lack of oxygen, that’s holding true again for me. You certainly can’t find me in this similar situation on a golf course…
It’s amazing what an extra hour of sleep can do! I woke up at six this morning. Can’t believe how fast time has gone by. What started out as a 50-odd day wait has gone by already.
Although it’s the last day for us in Bangkok today, it is still packed with sight-seeing and shopping. We depart from Palazzo Bangkok for the Floating Market, a three-hour journey away. Looking forward to beautiful colors, sights and smells.
Amazingly, I survived three hours at Thaniya Plaza. I even bought some stuff, mostly golf related things but I must admit by 5.30pm, I was thirsty for a cold drink and joined the two gentlemen from our group for several refreshing Singha draught.
By seven, everyone had a bag or two or more in their hands. With purchases made and hearts contented, we wanted to make our way to Mango Tree. But a wrong turn led us to the Boys of Bangkok street. Mmm…
Bars and pretty boys await. Uh-huh, I think it’s not the place in mind!
Finally we found Mango Tree. Too tired and hungry, I did not take any pictures of the food.
After dinner, fueled and reenergized, the big debate was whether to have a massage before a shower or vice versa. Yes, we are all having a good time to cap the day.
In the end, I think nobody went for a massage. Too tired and contented, it’s time to pack and reset the mind to go home.
In a blink of an eye, we arrived in Bangkok. Heavy with traffic, smog and full of people, welcome to the city!
Our hotel, Palazzo is off the beaten track. At least for me because it is not the usual place hubby and I stay whenever we come here.
But it’s a new place to explore, see and experience. After checking in, the group split into two and my group went in search for food.
Street food are always a welcome in terms of taste, smell and color. Contented we trotted back to the hotel for a quick shower and next on the agenda, massage!
The four of them in my group opted for the aromatherapy while I chose a foot and shoulder treatment. Everyone felt two hours should suffice.
So here I am, enjoying a two hour relaxing treatment on my tired legs.
By 12.45pm we were done with lunch and boarded the vans for our next stop, Bangkok.
It will be a two and a half hour ride as advised but we doubted it. Generally, I think the whole group agrees that the place is nice and highly recommends it. Trust us, cuegolf.com did a good job on this leg so far.
We are head to Bangkok now. Stay tuned…
One hour into the journey, we stopped at the Khao Yai Premium Outlet for some shopping. As you know, shopping is not my cup of tea but as we all agreed to an hour here, I did the obligatory browse through. Nothing caught my fancy. Oh well. But I did take some pretty pictures of trees.
It was cool and cloudy when my three ball flight teed off. The golf course was very serene and ours to play.
The greens were very slow with the morning dew. Some holes were challenging with intimidating ponds filled with lotuses to cross, some were beautiful with big houses in the midst.
It rained in the early stages so raincoats and umbrellas came out. Thankfully there was no lightning charge in the skies, so we continued on.
As we were the first flight out and being three balls, we finished our game by 10.45am.
All in all, today’s efforts saw 392 kcal burnt, 7.41km distance covered and
13,906 steps taken.
I like Kirimaya and I think the whole group agrees to. Good plan to stay two nights here instead of just one night and being rushed.
We say goodbye to Khao Yai area now as we prepare to leave for Bangkok.
I realize the only two times I wake up before the sun comes up is when I have a plane to catch or when I have a golf game to play.
Good morning!
Another early day has started. Day three in Khao Yai has begun. Today will be a long day, with a round of golf in Kirimaya golf resort then we journey into Bangkok in the afternoon.
All these time when I travel, I’ve never made used of the Premier Lounge at KLIA. Silly me. This time, with the group, it was nice. In a jovial mood, we snacked on the free flow of food, beer and whatever we fancied. We even nicked some peanuts for tonight. Heheheh.
We bought three bottles of duty free whiskey to accompany our trip. Figuring that there were 11 adults, drinking after each game would not be a problem.
MH788 was on schedule. It is again the new aircraft, Boeing 737-800, like the one to Bali recently. However, I must reiterate this aircraft has a very narrow and tight seating capacity. Even for me, I cannot stretch my legs. Luckily the flying time is not very long, so I don’t foresee an issue.
Goodness, as I sit here, writing this, the captain just announced for the cabin crew to prepare for arrival! I guess I made the right choice not to watch ‘Wolverine’ knowing that I will not be able to finish the movie in time.
The phone call came close to two months ago. I was in the midst of a discussion with my team of designers when the invite was thrown at me if I’d like to join for an upcoming golfing trip. Ooh… It was so tempting. The discussion had to be halted and a quick decision had to be made.
Right after the quick decision and some back and forth, the number 54 was somehow stuck in my head when I outlined the itinerary on TripIt to share with the whole group. This was the number of days until the trip.
Fast forward to today. Where did 54 days go?
So here I am sitting in the Premier Lounge with partial of the group (there’s 11 of us) laughing and carefree, enjoying the benefits of the lounge at KLIA before boarding. The group is not new in friendship as mentioned before but new for me in traveling together with them. My previous overseas golf excursions has always included hubby and just another couple. This time, the numbers are bigger.
There’s 3 couples and 5 ladies, myself included. At the eleventh hour, the 12th person pulled out due of work commitment that was unavoidable. It was too late to get a replacement and our golf tour coordinator, cuegolf.com, was very efficient and professional to readjust things for us.
So Thailand, here we come!
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