The park is named after the birthplace of Buddha in the Himalayas and has acres of grass and trees and several large lakes. The park is also home to a variety of urban wildlife. We saw several types of Myhnar birds, Herons, Egrets and Ravens, but also a couple of birds we couldn't identify readily. Probably, the largest, and perhaps most unusual, animal life in the park are Monitor Lizards which certainly grow to well over a metre long. They seem quite unfazed by everyone else in the park and wander around the grass, doze where they feel like it and swim in the lakes.
We walked around one part of the lake and back to entrance and then thought it was time to head back to the hotel and pack before our check out time. After checking out, we walked down street by the hotel to restaurant we'd visited before, Nalim Cafe where we had a light and cheap lunch. Back at the hotel, the only cool place to sit was in the lobby, so we stayed there for an hour or two.
We took a taxi to airport, once again, it was pretty cheap at around £10. That included paying to use the freeway. The freeway was anything but! It was nose-to-tail traffic nearly all the way so it took a hour to make the 26km journey. Lynn told me afterwards that the driver, who I couldn't really see, was struggling to stay awake. Scary really.
Survarnabhumi airport is huge, as I said the other day, so the check-in areas seems to go on for miles. We had a minor delay when the agent couldn't find our flight booking! I had all the details on my iPad, so all was resolved fairly quickly. Once through security and emigration, we had a brief wander around and had a drink before settling down to wait for our flight to be called. We are travelling on an Emirates A380 aircraft today. It will be interesting to compare it with the Qantas flights.
Our route this evening is taking us from Bangkok out over the Andaman Sea passing south of Myanmar/Burma. Then we will cross the Bay of Bengal before flying over central and northern India and then pass south of a Pakistan, over the Arabian Sea and descend over Oman and into Dubai. Flight time tonight is 6 hours and 33 minutes and the distance 3184km. Our menu says we have a choice of Thai Green Chicken Curry or Stir-fried Red Snapper as a main course. The starter is Smoked Chicken and the sweet, Mocha Mousse. Sounds like a bottle of white wine might fit the bill!
The music library on the aircraft is impressive although trying to select a particular artist or group has defeated me! There is a guide with a four figure number next to each artist and on the screen is a key pad which you'd think you could use to input your chosen number. Not a chance! I've reverted to randomly pressing g the up and down keys until I find something I like! To be fair, I found Genesis by chance and got nearly two hours of their music. ELO kept me amused for a while too. Now I've chanced on Deep Purple, what a blast from the past!
We are on final approach to Dubai at 0025 in the morning, it's 24C on the ground. We were quickly off the aircraft, but any optimism we might have had for a quick escape from the airport were quickly dashed when we saw the queues at immigration. We also collected some pre-ordered wine from Le Clos. After over an hour in the queue, we made it to baggage reclaim where out bags were already on the carousel. We were assigned a pink taxi driven by a women. We were only permitted to because Lynn was with me! Finally, at 0230, we made it to Tecom and bed. A bit of a long day really!
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