The next ten minutes are a bit of a blur. Thanks to the guy showing us to the market, we were guided to a boat tour company and we ended up on a big wooden boat for a one-hour river tour –a privilege for which we paid US$30. Per person.
That would be US$120 for my family of four.
For a one hour boat ride.
Ten minutes into the river tour, I turned to my brother-in-law. “How much did we just pay for this one-hour boat ride?”
“Seems a little high, doesn’t it?”
“Just a touch.”
I was starting to get the feeling that we had just been hustled.
And how.
We found out later that the Royal Palace has been a tourist site for the last two decades. The Thai government built themselves a new administrative complex on the other side of town over twenty years ago. The last time they had a parliamentary meetings at the Royal Palace, George W. Bush was still the owner of the Texas Ranger.
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