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Tuk-tuks: Tuk Tuks, Best Seen Not Heard or Ridden
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  • Updated By Bangkokjoe on May 23, 2005
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  • Tuk Tuks Waiting by the Din Daeng Pier - Bangkok
    Tuk Tuks Waiting by the Din
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    by Bangkokjoe
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    Tuk tuk. Ha ha ha ha. Tuk…. Tuk. The sound the two stroke engine splarts out. No muffler. All very fine and dandy if you do not have to listen to them whipping up and down your soi when you have a hangover, when you have to be up in 45 minutes, when you have no access to double glazing as you’re staying at your loverrrly missus’ uncle’s flat. (Who incidentally is also fully responsible for hangover.)

    Believe me, after one minute the novelty of being inside a tuk tuk wears off. Just remember where you read it first …when you are in the 30 degree heat, 85 per cent humidity, behind a Metropolitan Transport Authority bus exhaust pipe. No air con, no windows. Going nowhere.

    You may laugh. You may decry my lack of romantic nostalgia. Though I’ll have you know I too can reminisce about school dinners. Nostalgia doesn’t stop me throwing up at the smell of tomato and cheese pie.

    So. Please. Just take a picture of the tuk tuks. Then tip the driver a few bob. After that catch a cab or use the skytrain.

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    Tuk-tuks: Tuk Tuks
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  • Updated By CandS on March 17, 2006
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  • A tuk-tuk - Bangkok
    A tuk-tuk
    by CandS
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    When you're in Bangkok you must have a go in a tuk-tuk...they are great little taxis that will take you basically anywhere. You should bargain the price down though and you'll always get it cheaper.

    It's a good idea to use the tuk-tuk's at night rather than during the day...that way you won't have so much traffic around you and you won't have to breathe in so much polluted air.

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    Tuk-tuks: Take a tuk-tuk ride through Bangkok
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  • By SWFC_Fan on October 12, 2007
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  • Riding in a tuk-tuk - Bangkok
    Riding in a tuk-tuk
    by SWFC_Fan, 4 more photos
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    I took a ride in a tuk tuk during a visit to Bangkok in September 2007.

    I would recommend a tuk tuk ride as a novelty, one-off experience but would not suggest that you rely on them as your primary means of transport in the city.

    You’ll have no problems finding a tuk tuk driver willing to take you on a tour of the city – the roads are full of these rather flimsy looking 3 wheel vehicles, and the drivers practically beg you to hand over your 20 Bahts for a sightseeing tour.

    I was told to catch the tuk tuks with yellow number plates as they are government regulated but, given the number of lies I was told on the streets of Bangkok, this may or may not be true.

    Each tuk tuk has a unique number, and number 1355 was the lucky driver who managed to lure me in to his vehicle for a death defying dash around Bangkok’s traffic clogged roads. With no seat belt and nothing to prevent me from being thrown from the vehicle in the event of a crash, I gripped onto the side rails and prayed that the driver would deliver me safely back to the Grand Palace.

    I’d agreed a fee of 20 Bahts (0.30 GBP) in advance with the driver for him to take me to the giant standing Buddha at Wat Intharawihan, the Golden Mount and then back to the Grand Palace. However, Bangkok’s tuk tuk drivers are notorious for making unscheduled stops and failing to deliver passengers where they actually want to go. For more details of my own personal experience of this, see my “Warnings and Dangers” tip.

    My tuk tuk ride was certainly exhilarating and offered a unique way to view the city from the road – certainly more exciting than watching the sights pass by from the window of an air conditioned taxi!

    I highly recommend a tuk tuk ride…but only as a one-off experience!

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    Tuk-tuks: Tuk Tuk
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  • Updated By paradisedreamer on July 11, 2003
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  • Tuk-tuks - Bangkok
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    The best way to get around town. Cane be a hair raising journey but its fun and can be relatively inexpensive depending on your negotiating skills.

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    Tuk-tuks: And back home to the hotel...
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  • Updated By Alphons on June 21, 2004
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  • Tuk Tuk - Bangkok
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    by Alphons
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    And back home to the hotel with the tuk tuk. It was a great experiance to travel with this driver.

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    Tuk-tuks: But with the help from one of...
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  • Updated By Alphons on June 21, 2004
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  • Tuktuk in Bangkok. - Bangkok
    Tuktuk in Bangkok.
    by Alphons
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    But with the help from one of the Tuk Tuk drivers we come on every place we want. He drive us through the busy traffic as a formule driver, I enjoy the tour with that person.

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    Tuk-tuks: We go again with a tuk tuk.The...
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  • Updated By Alphons on June 21, 2004
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  • Busy street in Bangkok. - Bangkok
    Busy street in Bangkok.
    by Alphons
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    We go again with a tuk tuk.The tuk tuk driver are real slalom drivers and you can rent them as a guide so they can show you Bankok in a pleasure way of travel.

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    Tuk-tuks: Slalom in a Tuk Tuk!
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  • behind the Tuk Tuk driver - Bangkok
    behind the Tuk Tuk driver
    by sha_stallion
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    There is an advert for Visa which featured Pierce Brosnan on a Tuk Tuk. There, the Tuk Tuk performed amazing stunts as a James Bond vehicle would ;-)

    Like the advert, the real Tuk Tuks in Bangkok slalom through heavy traffic too though you won't find em being able to fly ;-)

    And amazingly, the Tuk Tuk, though small, would fit in any number of people you wish plus luggage cause they charge by the ride, not by the load!

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    Tuk-tuks: Tuk-tuk
  • By lhai on January 20, 2008
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    Tuk-tuks: Ride a tuk-tuk
  • By david1982 on February 11, 2007
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  • Paying for a tuk tuk - Bangkok
    Paying for a tuk tuk
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    It may be insane but getting on a tuk tuk to get home late at night is sometimes the only way home in Bangkok. Just make sure you haggle, and the driver knows the way.....coz half the time they don't.

    Getting one is no problem as they r everywhere!

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