Remembering Amazing Thailand

Tuktuk is a three-wheeler Thai taxi that is rather more ubiquitous than any other vehicles all across the country.

In Bangkok they are stationed at the tourists destinations like temples and night markets.

My first time to ride in a tuktuk was when my Ilocandia friends took me out to the heart of the city. We went to Patpong, the red district. And since there were too many of us to get in one taxi, we took the tuktuk instead. It looks small but it can carry more people than a taxi can.

My, oh my, how the driver fly! He sped up as if to impress us and even had the front wheel go up and I thought we were going to tip over. It was so dangerous and I almost had a heart attack. But in the end, I enjoyed it.

What a relief for regular travellers this BTS sky train is regardless of the fare. But if you are running out of time, you won’t mind paying that much.

I find Bangkok’s BTS trains very efficient, fast, and reliable. The only thing is that there’s too much steps to climb because most stations have only one scalator going up. Well, it’s still worth using the train after all rather than getting stuck in the traffic jam.

The train started operating in 1999 on the king’s birthday, December 5. It’s really rapid transit that runs along two of the busiest roads in Bangkok, Sukhumvit and Silom. It’s good because our apartment was in one of the sub streets of Sukhumvit Road which is closed to one of the train stations.