Day 3: Afternoon
After touring Wat Arun, I met up with my friends at the inn for breakfast. Had a slight incident with the staff who seemed to be clueless about our breakfast orders.
Later, we encountered an interesting experience with our taxi. We hailed one at Khaosan Road, and I asked to have us brought to Wat Arun. However, our driver was having a bad case of diarrhoea, and had us circling the vicinity of Khaosan Road searching for a toilet! He shouldn’t have responded to our hail initially, as there were many other taxis besides him.
Anyway, after he had finished his business, we thought we were heading to Wat Arun. I made some passing remarks to my friend about another famous temple, Wat Pho. And what happened was, our driver got confused and brought us to Wat Pho instead.
Lesson number 4: Do not talk about your other planned destinations in the tax. The driver may get confused and send you to his own default destination. And don’t hail a taxi with a driver having bad diarrhoea! 
1. Wat Pho (its full name: Wat Phra Chettuphon Wimon Mangkhlaram Ratchaworamahawihan) is also known as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha.
This is the section that housed a huge statue of a Reclining Buddha.

2. Dimension: forty-six metres long and fifteen metres high.

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4. A bell tower (belfry).

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7. Rows of Buddha statues that housed ashes from the deceased.

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9. This is the principal Buddha statue (Phra Buddha Deva Patimakorn, Lord Buddha in the posture of concentration), located in the central main hall of Wat Pho. The ashes of King Rama I is kept under the pedestal.
The atmosphere in the hall was so serene, peaceful, and blissful. We sat there for some time to rest and to obtain some peace. If you arrive in the morning or evening, you may encounter monks performing prayers.

10. One thing that we have missed is to try out Wat Pho’s traditional Thai massage, as this temple is known as its birthplace. The price seems reasonable too.

11. After Wat Pho, we went on a joyride circling around Bangkok (read: scamming tuk-tuk).
We were brought to various insignificant temples, and from one such temples one can see from afar the Golden Mount (Phu Khao Thong) atop Wat Saket (Wat Saket Ratcha Wora Maha Wihan). It’s a prominent structure among the skyscrapers of Bangkok, and it contains a Buddha’s relic.

12. By the time we reached the Grand Palace, my friends were already not in the mood to tour.
This is Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha), shot from the grounds of the Grand Palace.

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Lesson number 5: Bangkok Gem Scam (Link 1, Link 2)
It was an interesting encounter and experience. We did read about such scam in the passing but still we were caught off-guard. Anyway, we were too poor to be scammed, and were totally not interested in gems. My friends took the opportunity to get the remaining souvenirs to complete their list. And when the tuk-tuk tried to be funny, we threatened to call the Thai tourist police, which is 1111. 