ORIENTAL RESIDENCE BANGKOK & RANONG 2 NIGHTS

Sawasdee and welcome to Thailand! Your chauffeur will welcome you at the arrival hall at Suvarnabhumi airport and transfer you to your hotel in Bangkok city. Check-in and rest of the day is at leisure.

Overnight in Bangkok.

Meals: none.

Breakfast at your hotel and check-out. At 10.00hrs your local guide will pick you up from the hotel lobby and you start the "Unknown Bangkok Tour".

Take a stroll through Yaowarat Road, the main street in Chinatown Bangkok. This busy street, lined with ubiquitous goldsmith shops, sharksfin and birds’ nest restaurants, shops and vendors selling Chinese herbal medicine, dried mushrooms, salted fish, Chinese calendars, almanacs and of course, herbal tea, is a melting pot of communities engaging in thriving commerce. Continue to Pak Klong Talad, the biggest wholesale and retail fresh flower market in Bangkok. This roadside is a kaleidoscope of bright, blooming colours, as vendors receive floral goods from each flower-growing area in the country. After lunch in a local restaurant, visit Wat Suthat, better known for the towering red Giant Swing that stands at its entrance and is one of the oldest and most impressive temples in Bangkok. It features an elegant chapel with sweeping roof, magnificent wall murals and exquisite hand-carved teakwood door panels. Wat Saket is easily recognized by its golden Chedi atop a fortress-like hill. The Golden Mount houses relics of Lord Buddha and affords visitors who climb its 318 steps a panoramic view of old Rattanakosin and the roofs of Bangkok from above. From there we continue to the Monk's Alm Bowl Making Village. “Baan Batr” is the last existing place in Bangkok that still hammers out – by hand – the brass bowl that Buddhist monks carry with them during the morning alms round. Tucked away in a narrow backstreet south of Wat Saket, it looks no different from any other backstreets of Bangkok where old, non-descriptive buildings fail to give any hints of what’s hidden down the alley.

After the tour your local guide will wish you farewell and your chauffeur will take you to Don Muang airport.

Flight to Ranong (DD 7318 ETD 17.30hrs). Arrival at Ranong airport at 18.55, transfer to your hotel without guide (flight times subject to change).

Overnight in Ranong.

Meals: Breakfast at your hotel, lunch at local restaurant.

Time at leisure. Transfer to the border crossing with Burma. Meet our representative and transfer to Kawthaung jetty in Burma.