{"id":178,"date":"2015-11-25T04:14:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T04:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2015-11-25T04:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T04:40:50","slug":"bangkok-buffet-wat-pho-so-rambuttri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok: Buffet, Wat Pho &#038; So Rambuttri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started the day off with lunch at the Rain Tree Buffet (in the hotel besides ours). It was pretty much like a Vegas style buffet, but slightly cheaper (only about 1174 baht, or about $33USD). I think the desserts though were slightly better quality that what you would get in Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2075.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2075.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2077.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2077.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2079.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2079.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter the buffet we made our way to Wat Pho, which we spent almost 3 hours there (basically taking pictures. Unfortunately that meant we didn&#8217;t make it to the Grand Palace (we walked the perimeter of it only to find out it was closed after 5pm).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2115.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2115.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2132.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2132.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2141-0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2141-0.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2149.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2149.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2158-0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2158-0.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2169.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2169.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2177-0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2177-0.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After spending 5 minutes trying to get taxis to So Rambuttri (they wouldn&#8217;t turn on the meter), we decided to Uber instead. Basically for all of Bangkok we used uber to get around (except to and from the airport).<\/p>\n<p>So Rambuttri street is definitely like the night market we visited in Siem Reap. Lots of street food, foot message areas, bars, and eateries. I got this bracelet thing that I think is pretty cool, especially for the price point (50 baht), and it&#8217;s hand made in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2179.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2179.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2189.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2189.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2203.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2203.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2204.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2204.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter spending two hours in Rambuttri, we made it way back to the hotel, and pretty much slept super early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started the day off with lunch at the Rain Tree Buffet (in the hotel besides ours). It was pretty much like a Vegas style buffet, but slightly cheaper (only about 1174 baht, or about $33USD). I think the desserts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1328,10,55,56,57,54,53],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-2015","tag-asia-2015","tag-bangkok","tag-grand-palace","tag-so-rambuttri","tag-thailand","tag-uber","tag-wat-pho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}