Kidapawan Trail - The shortest climb to Mt. Apo

The Kidapawan Trail to Mt. Apo is said to be the shortest climb to Mt. Apo

Kidapawan City’s major tourist attraction is the mighty Mt. Apo and the city is dubbed to be located at the FOOTHILLS OF MT. APO, so basically if you are Kidapawan you might just be on your way to climb the Philippines highest mountain.

Most climbers say that the easiest and the fastest way to Mt. Apo is through Kidapawan trail. In just a day you can reach the camp site Lake Venado to have a short rest and if you are an experienced climber you can continue your way to the top. 

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The new Kidapawan City Hall

Kidapawan City is continuously improving especially on its infrastructures as a sign of progress and investor confidence in the ciity. This is supported by its new yellow inspired City Hall that provides additional landmark to the city but as well as improved services to its local residents.

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You’ll never get hungry in Bangkok — Cheap Bangkok Street foods

Thailand never failed to amaze me even when it comes to cheap food finds. Bangkok street foods are plenty especially around the city’s shopping district, people from all races come to taste their local cooking and experiencing the best Thai cooking may not be on the fancy restaurants but maybe on the streets of Bangkok. 

Thai and Filipino street foods have some similarities and differences. For example, in Bangkok since few are muslims, they serve barbeque pork, hotdogs and even chorizo (but Im not sure how they call it in Thai), they also have cold drinks available. The small difference is their marinade or sauce because Thai likes spicy dressing and sauces compared to Filipino which is sweet. 

Perhaps one difference from our country is Thai’s prefer fresh quick cooking street foods like the picture above. On this stall they serve fresh vegetables which is cooked in a prepared stock. It was very hot that day in Bangkok but still many people order this soupy meal and can cost 20BAHT. 

One of the best seller is this fried pork. This foodstuff is a bit sweet and costs only 5-10BAHT.

Familiar right? It looks like chorizo but they cook it differenty using their griller in a slanting position. I haven’t seen this way of grilling here in the Philippines. We could learn from Thai and make new trend here in our country. 

So you see, you’ll never get hungry in Bangkok.  Lot of cheap foods to try out. From the looks of it, I bet its cleaner than ours and was cooked well. 

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The Great Chakri Palace at Grand Palace Complex

Another georgeous structure is The Great Chakri Palace inside the Grand Palace Complex.

The place is sorrounded by beautiful landscaped garden and the whole thing captured my heart. I just kept on staring at the structure, this is one of my most memorable moments in Bangkok. 

Thai Monks taking pictures with me.

This place is featured at 360citie.net, click here if you want to see the it in a 360degree view. 

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Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew Walking Tour

Bangkok never failed to amaze me one more time.

 Right after my cruise at the river, I headed to one of Bangkoks top tourist destination - Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew located just beside Wat Pho temple where the Giant Reclining Buddha is found. The Palaces’ complex holds an important piece in Thai culture because it posssesed the countrys’ most revered Buddha image. It is astoundingly beautiful and the place that every tourist should not miss.

However, be aware of some touts claiming that the Palace is closed because they would just trap you to some of Bangkoks souvenier shops. The truth is, the Palace is open everyday except on very important royal activities. Make sure to dress up appropriately, wearing of shorts and revealing clothes is prohibited however, there is a clothes rental for tourist who weren’t informed about this. A refundable 200BAHT is collected at the entrance to change clothing. Also an extra 350BAHT is charged for admission fee. 

 The adventure starts here. I was so astounded by the beautiful golden temple, it feels Im one of the royalties. Shimmering gold shines brilliantly especially during the hot day.

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Unexpected Bangkok river cruise

One of the things you can do in Bangkok is to have a full river tour and experience the famous floating markets around the city’s canal. It was around 11am when somebody from a booth right outside Wat Arun temple approached me that offers this special tour. Since I was the only 1 traveling and could not afford the 700BAHT rent for the whole boat but I patiently waited for other people to come so we could share the cost of the tour. And after about 40 minutes, a couple from Malaysia joined me and divided the tour package.

It was scorching heat near the midday and make sure you hydate yourself. Anyway, the boat came to pick us up together with my new friends from Malaysia, they’ve been around Bangkok for 4 days. The river tour runs about more than an hour depends upon us if we stop at certain point or continue. At first, I was just amazed about the number of tourist flock to have this cruise. 

Just like our very own jeepney, these boats are also colorful and some have religious symbols in the front. They also become a trademark of different companies that operates this mode of transportation. During the start of our cruise, the river is really clean, only some few dead branches are freely floating but some junks are also found near the canal walls. 

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Exploring Wat Arun

So much detail has been intricately placed on the temple, its really amazing how they create this. You have to be here when you are in Bangkok.

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