Once on the other side we take our life into our own hands and get a tuk-tuk to the National Museum – only the driver takes us to a different National Museum to the one I thought we were going to, on the other side of town, so we have to take a taxi back to here we started from and start again! Tuk-tuks are an experience: speeding along the streets of Bangkok alongside the more robust vehicles, dodging people and potholes and generally giving you the feeling of complete fear. Fabulous though.
I was completely disappointed by the museum – it cost a fortune (relatively speaking) to get in, (200Baht, 20 MYR, £4), but it was literally a few halls with Bangkok / Thailand’s history crammed inside, up to about 1973 and then nothing. I was expecting exhibition halls, permanent and temporary displays, interactive exhibitions.Maybe I was expecting the British or Natural History Museum.
I was surprised it was listed in my Rough Guide as one of the top 10 things to do in Bangkok - maybe we had missed something? Anyway, by this time we had probably all done enough culture for the day, and we headed about to find something to eat – stopping off for some delicious crispy pork, chicken wings, fried banana and other tit-bits before settling for some noodle soup.
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