My first post! It’s about my first trip to Thailand.
Day 1
Arrived around noon, got the eSIM set up, and went to the hotel to dump my bags before going to a tattoo consultation to iron out a design. The traffic was nuts, and it was during peak jam hours and along Sukhumvit Road (I ended up being 30 mins late, ha).
Afterward, we went to Iconsiam for dinner. The water village-type decor was pretty cool, and I bought this wooden painted bunny from one of the souvenir shops.
Day 2
We went back to Iconsiam in the morning. I was stoked to see the Little Prince Universe exhibit (admission was 1,150 ฿), as I first read the storybook during uni, and I still think of the book tenderly (it helped me through those times).
In the first room, you met the little prince standing on the planet he crash-landed on. There’s a fan thing around him so his cape blows in the wind. Then there was a room full of roses from floor to ceiling. It was surreal. Soft cool white lights twinkled among the ceiling roses. There was a special large rose whose petals closed and opened on their own.
In another room, there was the little prince sitting on his old planet, gazing pensively at his rose under the bell jar that she had asked for to protect her from draughts. With just the star-speckled purple night sky walls all around us, it felt like we were intruding on a private moment between the prince and his rose.
In the next room, the little prince was laying on the grass above his fox’s den, watching him bound up to the mouth of his den, do a happy little twirl, and then disappear back into the darkness on loop. Stopping to watch I thought of the passage where the fox asked the prince to tame him, and how touching their departure from each other was.
Next, there was a room where the little prince left the planet. It was sad. It felt sad.
The other room had a screen where the prince was digging up the baobabs that plagued his home planet. It was an interactive screen where tiny baobabs sprouted up endlessly into existence, and the aim was to throw little plastic balls at the baobabs to get rid of them. It was a sisyphean endeavour where every tree you cleared caused another one to pop up somewhere else on the planet.
Finally, there was a wall you could write on with markers. I managed to find a little spot to write something on. The marker was running out of ink by the time I picked it up, so I had to keep retracing my letters.
Afterward, we looked at the merch shop. I got some postcards, badge pins, a shirt, and a rose. Hanging on a tag from the rose was the fox’s wisdom: “If, for example, you come at four o’ clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy.” I’m keeping the tag.
The admission fee included two little canvases that I could colour in and keep. I got to choose from 4 types of drawings – I chose the rose (the relationship between her and the prince is sentimental to me) and the sheep (because it’s so cute!).
I also went into the Doraemon exhibit just adjacent (tix were 690 ฿). It was also pretty neat!
Day 2
AM – I went to the Butterfly Park & Insectarium. Unfortunately I also got lost trying to find it, and I thought I would be in and out so quick that it wouldn’t matter I was wearing a long-sleeved black thick dress out in 11am Bangkok heat and humidity. It was a beautiful park, but I was tired, sweating, overheated, dehydrated, my back was hurting, and I had no idea where the butterfly exhibit was or how deep in Chatuchak park I already was.
I was starting to regret not spending more time mapping things out before taking a cab to the park, when I finally found it after walking like 2km?
I was running out of time for my next stop, so I just decided to operate on a “take pictures first, Google Lens later” principle.
PM – I went to Ray Chen’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. I wrote about it in a dedicated post here.
Day 3
It was already late in the evening when I got back to the hotel, so I just ordered Grab Food from this place called Kaizen Sushi & Hibachi. Oh my goodness, the sashimi was so thick and juicy, I couldn’t even finish it. I had to put it in the fridge to eat the next day. It made my local Kaizen’s sashimi portions look laughable in comparison. The prices were ok as well, and it only took like 45 mins from order placement to delivery.
Day 4
I went to this place called Rabbito cafe. From my understanding, they take in abandoned/dumped rabbits from the streets and post out adoption notices for the bunnies. Upon entering you’ll see a little fenced-off area with hidey houses, a decorative tree stump, etc. with a bunch of bunnies hopping around. Some of the bunnies are in cages but they get let out in turns and also to interact with the shop visitors.
Mint chocolate drink.
It was my first time petting a mini rex. They’re so unbelievably soft! How are they even real?
Bunnies everywhere!
This lil dude peed on me.
Rabbito Cafe IG: https://www.instagram.com/rabbite_cafo/?hl=en
Day 5
Went to SeaLife @ Siam Paragon (admission: 1,650 ฿).
We went for dinner at this place called Victoria by Cocotte at EmQuartier. It looked super expensive but it was late into the night, and it was the first restaurant just by the entrance, and we were hungry and really tired so we didn’t care. Any port in a storm. The food was lovely!
Day 6
Went to Miffy Cafe!
I also got a tattoo of Salika birds. I’d wanted this tattoo since exactly a year ago, and I’m very happy with how it turned out.
Right after getting the tattoo, I hopped on a plane back to Brunei. Until next time!