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Akshay, read this blog yaar. This guy says everything thats on my mind.

I am a bad backpacker. I dont like staying in nasty hostels, I always overpack and I hate Khao San Road. Khao San Road is a mecca for backpackers. It is famous for its cheap and cheerful hostels, food and drink. We had heard so much about it, it almost seems like a right of passage to visit there. After some sight seeing in the morning we caught a tuk tuk to Khao San Road. What struck me first was how busy it was. What struck me second was how gross it was. Khao San Road itself is very short. Stalls line both sides of the pavement on both sides of the street leaving no room to breathe let alone walk. You have no choice but to walk on the road where a constant crush of tuks tuks, taxis and scooters speed by. There is rubbish everywhere, it smells, neon lights advertise massages and cheap drinks. I understand that Khao San Road is best visited at night. To me it felt like visiting a cheap nightclub during the day. Seeing it in the cold light of day, smelling the sick and sticking to the floor, not a pleasant experience. I would say that everyone on the road who was not working was a foreigner. Everything on the street is aimed at the budget traveller. The whole time we were on the road I felt harassed. ” You want massage”, Hey where you go?”,” You look”, “Sir do you want a suit? Do you want a blue suit?”, “Films…you buy”, ” taxi taxi tuk tuk taki taki tuk tuk taxi taxi Hey where you go, lovely blue suit, hey tuk tuk tuk tuk”.ARGH. :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:. We ducked into a side street to get away from the chaos for a minute and we were practically chased by some very overzealous tailors. We spotted a few pretty good second-hand bookshops and we spent some time browsing but didn't buy anything. I tried to swap my copy of Girl Who Played with Fire but no one would take it. Has anyone noticed that an alarming amounts of books have been published on life in Thailand' prisons? I wonder if the Thai police put stacks of them in bookshops themselves as a heady warning to visitors.:rofl::rofl: Back to Khao San Road, I was not particularly impressed with the shopping. All of the clothes stalls sold the same things, Britney or 7/11 vests, and the prices were much higher than I had seen elsewhere. I bought one pair of earrings because I am weak and have an addiction to shiny things. We tried to find somewhere nice and cheap and out of the sun for lunch but we could not find anywhere we liked the look of. The prices were all higher than we were accustomed to paying in Bangkok. In the end we had sandwiches at Subway *hides head in shame*.:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: After I got a Street Treat of fried coconut pudding things. I was dismayed to get a bag of cold ones, not the fresh ones the lady was cooking. They were fairly tasty. I made the mistake of pulling one in half to examine the contents. It had what I suspect was spring onion in it. The next one had what looked like little bits of ham. The next one was empty. I didnÃÕ like that game and left most of the bag untouched. All in all, it was very interesting to finally see the much fabled Khao San Road but it left a pretty nasty taste in my mouth. I preferred walking the quieter streets around Khao San Road. Here the food stalls are quiet and you can actually walk on the pavements. While doing some window shopping we came across a photo album outside of a wedding photographers. The page it was open to had the title, “is true love”. The picture was of a beautiful and very young Thai bride with her old, fat, Western husband. “Picking her from a calalogue…is true love”. -- bwhahahahahah :hail: Patpong is known as the centre of the sex industry in Bangkok. Ordinarly red light districts wouldn't be my first choice for an evening out but when in Rome as they say, I felt like I should go and see this side of Bangkok for myself. All around the Patpong area there are pretty impressive night markets. Lots of fake designer goods and pirate DVDs for sale, but also some impressive jewelery and souvenir stands. We had dinner in Patpong, over looking some neon signs advertising gay bars, in a nondescript looking restaurant with a tree in the middle of it and cheap prices. I had an omellete filled with noodles and prawns and it was without doubt the best thing I have eaten in Thailand. I had to restrain myself from licking the plate clean and ordering another. After dinner we went for a walk around Patpong. The area in general was not as seedy as I had imagined it would be and it is pretty clear where the dirty bits are. On one street there is a market selling fake handbags on one side with Go-Go bars lining the other. We had barely stepped onto the street when a man thrust a “menu” in our face, “ping pong show, ping pong show”, we kept walking. Next step and a diffent man, “ping pong show, ping pong show”. This time I got a glance at the “menu”, and managed to read “smoke a cigarette” and “cut a banana” on the list of options.. --- bwahahahahah :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Obviously trying not to appear interested I stifled a guffaw and we kept walking. I glanced to my left and seen a bar full of ladies in underwear, and the same thing in the next bar and the next. “Dan don’t look to your left and stay in front of me”. I wanted him where I could see him. Clearly I wasn’t going to get the hard sell here but I was worried that Dan would be tricked into watching, “hang a picture” or something else equally mind boggling and I would never see him again. We turned round a corner, more bars and scantily clad ladies and mysterious signs, blacked out windows. Part of me wanted to go inside and see what was happening, but the sensible side of me told me that it was probably much worse than anything my imagination could ever dream up and it was enough to just view from a safe distance. One place we could see at street level was called, “Topless Bar”, apparently misleadingly as all the bar maids were wearing shirts. At one point I looked up to see a walkway with two pretty young ladies pressing their almost naked bodies against the glass for the benefit of the people on the street below. It was pretty early in the night at this point and the place wasn’t too busy. I did see some kids there however. How do you explain to your young child why they can’t go play ping pong without having to give them The Talk? We left to catch the sky train as more people were starting to arrive. An amusing evening but I have no plans to go back. I however am clearly not Patpong’s target customer and I’m sure if you are you will have the time of your life. We stopped at 7/11 for some flavoured milk and went back to our hotel to pass the rest of the night watching the Sci Fi Channel. * I think deep down, the only way I am identifiably a backpacker is by my choice of luggage. Please take everything in this entry as lightheartedly as it was intended. I truly loved visiting Bangkok and I think Patpong and Khao San Road are part of the whole extraordinary experience that make this city so special. I would be interested to hear everyone else’s views on Patpong and Khao San Road? Love them or hate them? Traveller’s nirvana? Unforgivable exploitation of women? Comment and let me know.
Link: http://themissadventurejournals.com/2011/01/31/khao-san-road-patpong-and-the-seedy-side-of-bangkok/ Oh gawd, what a piss take :rofl:
Manny_Pacquiao Newbie

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Cool. So, unless you can eat dog for food, you are saying just stay home? :hysterical:
guys like you can't even eat eggs...:hysterical::hysterical: face it, the rest of the world is a scary place for you vajjitarians.
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Oh gawd, I can totally see where you are coming from. Friend of mine to me: "If you are going to Bangkok, please do something other than just visit the monastries there" -- The guy is a dead set legend :hail::hail::hail: Ravi, do you know who this guy is? :rofl:
I did not visit even single monastery :D
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face it, the rest of the world is a scary place for you vajjitarians.
Well.I'm vegetarian ,but I'm not scared of stuff sold outside :wink2:
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that's fking disgusting....these people are so fked up that they will eat their own babies...I see cadavers, human organs, blood on a daily basis but this is beyond disgusting...I'm gonna throw up

Mariyam Grand Master

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Bangkok is known for two things: Buddhist monasteries and Patpong. With Patpong, you get all the debauchery, ladyboys and all. All in all, it's a strange place, Bangkok is.
Bangkok is also a shopping haven.
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Went to a Buddhist monastry here in Bangkok today to find out they celebrate the Hindu epics of "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata". Wow, now thats seriously impressive :hatsoff: ---

The Ramakian (รามเกียรติ์, "Glory of Rama", sometimes also spelled Ramakien) is Thailand's national epic, derived from the Hindu epic Ramayana. ... While the main story is identical to that of the Ramayana, many other aspects were transposed into a Thai context, such as the clothes, weapons, topography, and elements of nature, which are described as being Thai in style.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakien
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its quite huge in that part of the world. Garuda is indonesia's national symbol' date=' isnt it[/quote'] Correct but I never fully understood the link between the Hinduism and Buddhism. Really surprised to find that many south east Asian countries incorporate the Ramayana into their nationa epics, including Cambodia of all places !! (Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana) :hatsoff:
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