After a simple lunch of pad thai (60B), I approached the admission office to buy my ticket. The signboard says the charge for Thais is 20B and the charge for farangs is 100B. Thus, I pretended to be thai and got in for 20B.
I had to climb a long flight of stairs to reach the temple (5mins?) Atop of the flight of stairs lies an ancient temple in a relatively small compound. (100m by 100m)
Frankly, I was kind of expecting to see much more than this after riding 60km there. I left after about 30 min feeling disappointed. I'm sure my visit to Angkor Wat will have much more to offer me.
Exhausted after a day out in the hot sun, I rode back to town to rest. Along the way back, I stopped at the Buriram football stadium which is way more grand than any stadium back home in Singapore. The Thais are really passionate about their football. Yesterday, every television set I saw in town was showing the Thais vs the Aussies. A match which the Thais lost narrowly by 1 goal to nil.
Had an early dinner of grilled chicken and som tam before going back to my hotel to do a routine servicing on my bike. Cost: 70B.
Spent about an hour doing a thorough check on the bike, installing the original airfilter and changing the engine oil. Cost: Nil. Manage to reduce overall bike weight by 1kg as I decided to use the spare bottle of oil that I was carrying all along. This bike simply does not consume any oil at all.
Expenses:
Hotel - 540B
Petrol - 200B
F&B - 465B
Entertainment - 200B
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