Dream World is about an hour and a half drive from Bangkok city central. Somewhere near the old airport at Don Muang.
My intention was to take a short cab ride to Hualumphong railway station and transfer a public bus to that place, but us lazy bums didn't want to get up so early, so we took a cab there directly.
Dream World is sort of a mini version of Disneyland. Hmm... not THAT fun, but satisfactory. We got tickets at 550B (includes Snowtown tickets and lunch buffet) at the tour agency as mentioned earlier. Usual price about 470B, without snowtown tickets and lunch buffet. Snowtown tickets are about 130B, so yep, we got ourselves a pretty good bargain. =)
Watch Kh on the flying coaster! Ah... not scary at all. He was so disappointed with it. It's supposed to be THE more thrilling ride there. Nevertheless...
Kh and I thought this viking ship looks smaller than the one at Escape, and we just ASSUMED that it'll just be a relaxing ride. We happily took the far end seats on the viking and ya know the whole ride was a total nightmare. :O
This freaking viking ship has only a metal pole to hold on to. It went so high, I was almost upside down, and hello, I was holding on to that freaking metal pole for my dear life, and I could feel my whole body weight pressing on the metal pole which in turn made a creaking noise. =( I was crying out,"Please stop, please stop! Make it STOP!!!!!!"
And ya know such rides usually only reach the peak for awhile and then it goes down. This freaking viking ship DOES NOT! It went up to its peak like over 5 times before gradual coming down again. I don't know how long that ride took but it felt like hours up there. I've never been so scared sitting on a ride my whole life. =(
Worse, when it finally came to a stop, that ride conductor was like,"One more time?" All of us were like,"NOOOO!!!!!" Ya know, usually peeps would shout YES but not this one. I think even the middle people were suffering, seeing how the ship almost went vertical. Eek.
As mentioned earlier, we wanted to take the public transport to be able to really blend in with the thais and see what living in thailand is really about. We were determined to do so hence we took the public transport home.
From DreamWorld, we took a shuttle bus out to the main road, walked some distance to the bus stop, and took a bus to Don Muang Railway station as according to the instructions stated on the website and my Lonely Planet book. Apparently, the bus journey from Dream World to Don Muang Railway station was about 30mins and the bus stop wasn't even near to the station. We had to walk a freaking 2km and it was so hard to find that place! :O We got lost along the way and had to ask a few people for directions.
the public bus service 538! Looks like a tour bus. Ooh.
It was cheap though. The bus ride to the train station was only 17B and the train ticket from Don Muang to Hualumphong station was only 12B! Kh and I felt that anything below 20B is not even worth counting. It's so cheap, we don't even know how to count it!
Don Muang train station and train tickets!
the train, its interior, and Hualumphong train station!
Hualumphong train station is one of the major train stations in Bangkok. It's packed with angmoh backpackers! So anyways, Kh and I bought a box of Dunkin' Donuts as it was so freakin cheap we couldn't resist.
After which, we headed to Patong Night Market via subway to continue shopping! (There were so many things we wanted to buy last night but didn't have the money.)
Next up... Thailand Trip 2007--Bangkok/Udon (Day 4)
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