Travel Notes—Thailand

like most people

my first trip abroad

I also went to Thailand

So the country of Thailand

What's the charm?

What's the charm?

Huang Lanju and I are traveling independently.

1. You need to develop a detailed travel guide, which requires referring to online resources, such as Zhihu or Mafengwo. I mainly use Mafengwo. The picture above is a guide I made myself at that time.

2. Get your passport in advance. We applied for the visa on Taobao. We only needed to send the passport to Chengdu without showing proof of property. It cost more than 200 yuan and took about a week.

3. The phone card I bought on Taobao is the Happy Card, which has unlimited traffic and I can’t remember the number of minutes. Anyway, it’s enough and it’s very cheap at more than 20 yuan.

4. Regarding the exchange of Thai currency, we suffered a loss at that time. According to the comparison of various methods, it should be the most cost-effective to exchange Thai currency at a domestic bank before going to Thailand. But when we got off the plane, we changed it at the exchange at Bangkok Airport. Later we learned that the exchange rate at Bangkok Airport will be much higher than the exchange rate in Bangkok city. This means that we can only exchange 100 RMB for 420 Thai dollars at the airport, but we can exchange it for 480 Thai dollars in downtown Bangkok. . Let’s talk about ATM withdrawals. All domestic bank cards with UnionPay printed on them can be used to withdraw money from Thai ATMs. The exchange rate is relatively low, but no matter how much money you withdraw, a 300 baht handling fee will be charged. To sum up, the ranking of the most cost-effective ways to exchange Thai baht is definitely: domestic bank exchange > Alipay > ATM machine > urban exchange > airport exchange

    

What did we eat in Thailand?

1. Fast food: We bought it for the late night flight because it was very cheap. So when we arrived at Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok, it was five o'clock in the morning local time. Since the bus to the city has not yet left , we couldn’t bear to take a taxi, so we found a McDonald’s at the airport . During the past few days in Thailand, we found that their KFC is much cheaper than McDonald's. The overall price of McDonald's is much higher than KFC . This feels a little different from our domestic feeling.

While in Bangkok, we went to two night markets

1. Ratchada Train Night Market: It is a more down-to-earth night market. There are volcano pork ribs and durian buffet. Fried rice, beef skewers, etc. are all delicious.

2. Riverside Night Market: After planning, the developed night market is well decorated and sells souvenirs and food. The price is much more expensive than Ratchada. I don't really like this night market. But it is said that when we went there that day, Wang Junkai was also there at about the same time. But none of us are his fans, so we didn’t go to see it. If it were Yi Yang Qianxi, we might go.

Chinatown

Of course you need to experience Chinatown when you are abroad. Now I remember that we couldn’t find the way, so we asked a local lady, she was very enthusiastic and took us directly to Chinatown, and then said: have a nice day. I felt very happy at that time ~ Chinatown in Bangkok has a very social atmosphere , you can feel it just looking at the photos. There are mostly gold shops on both sides of the street during the day, and night markets at night. The food here is also more in line with Chinese tastes. I ate several snacks without stepping on Leo's.