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Tours - unscheduled shopping stops: Places you don't wanna go
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  • Written by airasia on May 12, 2005
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    • This encounter happen on the way to the Grand Palace. We arrived infront one of the entrance to the Palace and was told that we can't go in due to a ceremony happening in there. the person who inform us is appratently a local tour guide standing beside the entrance.
    Since we were already there, she recommended us to take a tour with the tuk tuk to visit some other tourist spot around the area. As soon as we agree and aboard the tuk tuk, we were taken for a ride to palces we weren't expecting - jewel shop, carpet shop and suit shop. Basically the reason this tuk tuk bring u to these shop is just to get his free ' gasoline'
    ~sigh~

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    At Least Do This: 1. Ignore the tour guide recommendation and try some other entrance.

    2. If aboard the tuk tuk - just get down on the very 1st shop that's not right for you and make your own way back yourself.
    Alternative: Talk to some local Vt : )
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