as mentioned in my previous post, we are spending our last couple days in Thailand on Khao San Road. It is known as the centre of the backpacking universe, and while I have not met any backpacking aliens yet, I have met people from all corners of the earth.
At night the street is closed to traffic, and it becomes one massive party. You can find:
- Macdonalds / Burger King / KFC / Subway
- Beer and other alcohol sold out of coolers by street vendors
- Many bars
- Laughing gas sold by street vendors
- Fake IDs sold by street vendors
- Offers to take you to a ping pong show… Ping pong seems to be a very popular sport here because there a lot of these
- A nice selection of fried insects (especially scorpions)
- Offers of massage – boom boom optional
- All manner of souvenir shop
- Silver shops
- 7/11 selling beer and liquor at any hour of the day (except between 2 and 5 pm for some reason… I guess you are meant to sober up in the afternoon so you can be fresh for a new round in the evening)
All goods things must come to an end though… Tomorrow we begin our journey home with a 6:40am flight😔.
One last day in Bangkok… I’d say we were going to make the most of it, but the truth is we are all pretty tired, so it will probably be a quiet one, but you never know… Maybe I’ll try to take in a ping pong match.
Ron Gen Cam Jam go to Thailand 