Whilst I have no pictures to best represent this post, the experience itself was notable.
Our tummies were very well filled from our meal at Blue Elephant, so we decided to take a walk to the sky bar at Lebua just to walk off the meal.
On the internet, the train stop nearest to the sky bar was just beside the Blue Elephant. We could see the lit up dome from where we were, but the frustrating thing was that it was situated just beside an expressway, and we couldn't cross the expressway just like we crossed any other roads.
Hence we had to make a detour, walked away from the sky bar, used the train station as an overhead bridge, and then walk through this quiet neighbourhood.
Scary much if there wasn't a guy with me. G asked if I would do this alone, hell no! Would have jumped into the next cab that drove up and depending on my level of brevity, either head to my destination or be a scaredy cat and head back to the hotel.
So we were walking along a stretch of road that was dimly lit, and the cars that were driving on the same stretch of road were all speeding. That was when we saw a whole brigade of vehicles with their sirens blaring past. Immediately, I was thinking of my mum's warning that there might be bombings in bangkok, what with all the recent terrorists attacks.
Thank god we turned into the adjacent road, and coincidentally met the tuk tuk driver who drove us to dinner. If that wasn't enough to lighten the tense slash scary mood, walking the next twenty steps into Lebua just made it all better again.
By a strange turn of events, we took the same tuk tuk back to banyan tree after we descended from the sky bar. Knowing that our driver wasn't a scammer made me forget our scary long walk.
The next morning when we woke up and read the papers, we found out that a huge fire had broke up in the Grand Mercure hotel nearby, resulting in two casualties. So that was the cause of the sirens we heard last night!
