{"id":1351,"date":"2009-11-20T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2011-07-02T13:51:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T12:21:45","slug":"siam-square-bangkok-a-shopaholic-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/2009\/11\/20\/siam-square-bangkok-a-shopaholic-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Siam Square Bangkok&#8230; A shopaholic heaven!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another great day in Bangkok, at first taxi ride to the train station after which I and my English travel companions tested the brand new underground (just over 4 years old) called MRT. There is heavy security on every entrance. It\u2019s cheaper to take a taxi if more than two people are travelling together so it came to no surprise that the underground was nearly empty. \u00a0Initially James, Matt and I wanted to go for a fish massage &#8211; small fish nibbling away on your feet, but unfortunately we could not find the place. So back to the MRT where I said Good bye to Matt and James and made my way to Siam Square to go to a tailor (Rajawongse) and get myself a nice suit. Siam Square is the main shopping area with lots of international brands and a couple of cinemas. I guess it\u2019s a place for tourists to do shopping, because I wonder what Thais would do with the latest winter fashion such as warm coats and scarfs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After I got measured I went back by skytrain, also one of the newer transportation systems built in Bangkok over the last few years. After an attempt to climb the Golden Mountain (closes at 5:30 pm) I walked back to the hostel and joined an international group of backpackers for dinner and again &#8211; the roof terrace at the hostel till 4:30 am in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I did manage to catch my flight to Siam Reap the next day, where I am currently residing at the Sieam Reap Hostel. On my first day I just took it easy and went for a massage at the Bodie Spa, which was very relaxing after all the walking I did the past few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great day in Bangkok, at first taxi ride to the train station after which I and my English travel companions tested the brand new underground (just over 4 years old) called MRT. There is heavy security on every entrance. It\u2019s cheaper to take a taxi if more than two people are travelling together so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/2009\/11\/20\/siam-square-bangkok-a-shopaholic-heaven\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Siam Square Bangkok&#8230; A shopaholic heaven!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,80,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-cambodia","category-asia","category-backpacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/backpacking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}