After an hour or so of exploring the compounds of Wat Arun (I really love my lotus shot with my Spotmatic btw, above), we took a break by the pier heading across the Chao Phraya river to Wat Pho where the Reclining Buddha resides. Again, the elaborate decorations on all the buildings at the Wat Pho complex were extremely beautiful. Not a blank space to be seen! The stupas here were also decorated with colourful ceramic tiles but for Wat Pho, the application of these tiles were much more neater and filled up all areas of the stupas unlike at Wat Arun where you can still see the imperfect fitting of the porcelain pieces but that doesn't mean one is better than the other because art is subjective and they both had different people working on it. I think both temple complexes looked magnificent in their own ways!

Visiting the Reclining Buddha was such an amazing experience for the both of us. I mean, the scale of it blew our minds away. Covered with gold leaf and mother-of-pearl illustrations, we were in awe when we walked into the room. It was quiet and peaceful amidst the crowd which filled up the entire room. Wat Pho is also known to have birthed traditional Thai massage and up till today, it is still an institution for Thai traditional medicine. Both of us totally missed the chance on having a traditional Thai massage there but it's okay, another reason to come back!

After exploring two temple complexes, we were famished and headed over to The Never Ending Summer restaurant. It was the only fancy place to eat in our itinerary and we were super excited for it until we arrived to a cute and hungry miao-miao looking across the Chao Phraya river and no food for us. The restaurant was operating and there was only one table inside that was occupied so we assumed they booked the entire place and we were just having a bad day with the cat.

Dejected and tired, we Grabbed to Platinum Fashion Mall for McDonalds before venturing into what my friends call, the fashion haven. Well, I was quite disappointed because aside from a few pairs of earrings and one shop that sold something nice, I don't think the mall had much to offer. For plain stuffs like men's working shirts and slacks, it's great to get it there but for women's fashion, it was quite a bummer for me. Thankfully, Abang got a few working shirts or I would have felt that we were wasting our time walking in circles at this place.

As our legs were already jelly-fied at the end of Platinum Fashion Mall, we decided to skip Pratunam Market which was located at the street right opposite of the mall. Plus, it was raining heavily a few moments ago and we both didn't fancy the idea of getting our shoes all muddy there. We decided to call it a day and took the link bridge to the BTS station UNTIL we passed by Central World.

There were bright lit tents with many people moving in and out of it carrying takeaways and what not right outside Central World and since we still had so much time to spare, we dropped by for a bowl of Tomyam Seafood Noodle! It was GOD, I meant GOOD. So, so satisfying and I will definitely come back for another bowl! There were so many snacks to try and buy at this mini food event and I think that's why they say you can never get hungry in Bangkok. You take a few steps outside and then there is food. Everywhere you go, food will be there.

Aside from the no-lunch at The Never Ending Summer restaurant and not-so-fun Platinum Fashion Mall, everything else was very enjoyable, especially exploring both Wat Arun and Wat Pho. I really love to spend time admiring architectures and art during my travels and I think it's pretty obvious when my temple photos outnumber the food and selfies in my blog posts.

My next and last blog post on my Bangkok trip will be about the shopping, art gallery, and furry friends! It will be up in the coming weeks so for now, check out Bangkok Part 1: Faraway Places if you haven't while I go get the last part of this trilogy ready!