Question: What is the difference between a taxi and a bus when they are both pick-ups of a similar model.
Answer: The colour.
That was what distinguished the "cabs" from the intra-town "buses" in Chanthaburi. The "cabs" were blue and yellow while "buses" were painted white with a number on each side. We managed to find the right "bus" to Oasis Sea World but we found ourselves waiting almost an hour for it to move off! What a good excuse to be late for work.
The weather was bad. It rained heavily. And the marine park was nothing more than a dolphin show unless you were willing to pay more to play with the dolphins. It was expensive but nonetheless, an eye-opener. I did enjoy watching the smartest mammal on Earth (excluding mankind) perform tricks.
We had a problem getting back to Chanthaburi. There were no "buses" from the park. We followed the instructions from a kind Oasis staff and walked out to a roadside market where we were the centre of attraction. It was difficult communicating with the locals, funny at times, but we finally got the message across that we were looking for a "song tuol" back to Chanthaburi.
They insisted there were none, told us to wait and finally, one came along. The driver quoted a crazy price equivalent of booking an entire cab for a private tour and we negotiated, pushing the price down a little. Still, we were at the losing end. A couple of locals hopped on along the way and we found out they paid a much lower fare, not that we were surprised anyway. At our destination, we refused to pay the exaggerated amount but finally did fork out an amount slightly lower than agreed. As expected, the driver happily accepted.
Lunch was rice with chopped chilli =P and we had great fried chicken as a side dish. Zi Kai will remember this forever as he went down with a bad stomachache. We headed back to our room for a rest, then visited the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, but obviously Zi Kai was in some pain. He didn't even have appetite for dinner. I thought the chicken rice was quite nice, too bad he missed it.
Total expenses over 18 days: S$535
Participants: LSH, Zi Kai, Jing Kai, Lim Hwee
Answer: The colour.
That was what distinguished the "cabs" from the intra-town "buses" in Chanthaburi. The "cabs" were blue and yellow while "buses" were painted white with a number on each side. We managed to find the right "bus" to Oasis Sea World but we found ourselves waiting almost an hour for it to move off! What a good excuse to be late for work.
The weather was bad. It rained heavily. And the marine park was nothing more than a dolphin show unless you were willing to pay more to play with the dolphins. It was expensive but nonetheless, an eye-opener. I did enjoy watching the smartest mammal on Earth (excluding mankind) perform tricks.
We had a problem getting back to Chanthaburi. There were no "buses" from the park. We followed the instructions from a kind Oasis staff and walked out to a roadside market where we were the centre of attraction. It was difficult communicating with the locals, funny at times, but we finally got the message across that we were looking for a "song tuol" back to Chanthaburi.
They insisted there were none, told us to wait and finally, one came along. The driver quoted a crazy price equivalent of booking an entire cab for a private tour and we negotiated, pushing the price down a little. Still, we were at the losing end. A couple of locals hopped on along the way and we found out they paid a much lower fare, not that we were surprised anyway. At our destination, we refused to pay the exaggerated amount but finally did fork out an amount slightly lower than agreed. As expected, the driver happily accepted.
Lunch was rice with chopped chilli =P and we had great fried chicken as a side dish. Zi Kai will remember this forever as he went down with a bad stomachache. We headed back to our room for a rest, then visited the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, but obviously Zi Kai was in some pain. He didn't even have appetite for dinner. I thought the chicken rice was quite nice, too bad he missed it.
Total expenses over 18 days: S$535
Participants: LSH, Zi Kai, Jing Kai, Lim Hwee
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