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Bangkok By Night In Bangkok

Bangkok: Nineteen hours and twenty minutes of 'February 8 duemilaundici

I prepare for the last night of the pilgrimage Kreativa in the East, after several passages between the orphans, schools, friends and poor Cambodians / Vietnamese and Thai tonight I want to see a little bit of Bangkok nightlife, of course, from my personal point of view.

I think that in any case as a capital Bangkok and a very large city with a high poverty rate, surely a large number of hidden dangers for those running alone with equipment in tow, decides to take the first lap, "armed" only a compact camera, taken with the first tuktuk and I do take a tour around the city.

Bangkok is very big, I think it's like London, and I have to choose what to see, I opt for the quarters Chinese, Arabic and Indian, begins a daring journey into the chaotic traffic of the city, truly scary at times for the strange feeling of traveling on the opposite side of the road (they drive on the left here) and the seemingly chaotic but precise guidance from Thailand, we also encounter an accident between two tuktuk to take a big spot, I sense that it is not blood on the size, but someone got hurt, I ask my driver to go slower, slows, stops and starts again at the traffic lights faster than before.

The Chinese quarter cross it quickly enough, colors, roadside stalls, as in all city, but with a huge concentration of shops overflowing with things, going through the tuktuk and armed only compact I avoid even the slightest attempt to stop pictures, I'm pleased to observe, and to capitalize on this enormous variety of colors.

Quarter Indian and Arabic are attached, (defined by me as well for the largest number of Indians and Arabs) are multiplying here visibly kebab restaurants, women with Burck and characters with a long beard and headgear Arabic which I can not remember the name, hence the tuktuk invites me to come down and I start to walk in the crowd, the flavors blend and the restaurants are increasingly split, the environment makes me seem to have changed the city, here everything seems different from Thailand's Khao San Road, go ahead and I run in the first gogo bar, I want to watch closely the situation of sex tourism, I would understand if it is as described in the West.

The gogo Bars are places where there are a lot of girls sitting waiting customers, they offer a drink and then go away with them, I avoid sitting down for not having to find a way to escape but then watch from afar, and it is not difficult to understand how involve the customers, the tables of the premises after they are almost all filled with couples, he white (European / Australian / American) and her Thai, even the way we see men of a large certain age, accompanied by young girls who do not know where to start.

I try to understand and start a chat with the people who most approaches me, an Indian, I described the situation as no different than the normal description of other mole people I have met and even some sites that described the plight of these girls, they all say that girls do to have fun in the evening, not having money using this method and it can also send money home to families living outside the city, but unfortunately I'm not convinced the Indian greeting and walked in a Soi (lanes) without pulling out my camera because I do not think the case, here tourists and "workers" do not think love to be taken during the meeting several couples promenade, watching eyes of the girls understand the sadness of this situation.

I think I've seen enough, and I miss my camera, with a contract for the return motoboy Khaosan Road and in part to a disproportionate rate, I think this has also been drinking a little, the reference to safety, he laughs and thankfully this time slows down and starts (I think ) to explain the things that cross talking in Thai.

arrived at the hotel take the camera, I change your shirt and start to download the data of the compact by which I shot a video on board the tuktuk on the outward journey, I realize that it is the twenty-three and I have not eaten yet, I take the credit card had run out of money and I'm going to eat a veg miniThali saw the time.

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arrived at the meeting, the Indian restaurant owner (and then I discover that actually it is the little brother) I order my food and two beers, one for me and one for him, there's little time even his friends who sit with us, we drink beer, laughing and joking, then I know I laugh a little more :-) ...

While I am going to end up with my tray of dishes taste the friend to whom I offered the beer gives me a strange substance, tells me that comes from his country and is strong, is to eat, maybe Opium is ... I try to explain to him that do not do drugs, and especially in a city that used to be shiny, then I explain that his insistence on having no money and he says it is not a problem and I slipped into his pocket an envelope with two balls inside me that was just for me cinquecentobat.

The situation is complicated, but fortunately they have not yet picked up pull out the wallet and I show that I have no money, there duecentobat are only to pay one hundred beers and such and I have to take for breakfast, he says he is not a problem, return the envelope with extreme caution to prevent us from seeing and I hate being greeted with courtesy, tomorrow exchange Indian restaurant. ;

Now the stomach is full, I get close to an ATM and withdraw tremilabat to evening, airport bus tomorrow and some presents to take home.

machine in hand to start take pictures, I know two guys austraiani, four Norwegians, the girls barettino where I buy the beers they enjoy being photographed with a sign in his hand and walk forward and back to Khaosan road, I think it is appropriate to limit myself to tell this part of the city on this trip, I move certain ways, but without changing neighborhood, here is full of tourists from every nation, everywhere the atmosphere is festive, each bar has music with DJs or live and eat in restaurants all happily, even in the stalls where they sell beetles, earthworms, scorpions and other proteins happily eat fries.

Here you see mixed couples Thai with European / American / australliani etc. .. and here perhaps applies the concept of entertainment sought by the girls with the tourists, the girls have more or less the same age of the boys, all smiles, and then they will drink more, but I think that here there is a lot more respect and a greater awareness.

At one point in my walk and continued to find people with whom Exchanging greetings and toasts I see a circle of people in the middle of a group of dancers who perform break-dancing on the asphalt, I sit down and around the first video, I get put in their hat centobat of offers and I sit in front per again from another angle, all having fun this is Bangkok, which I like and I will miss him.

late in the evening becomes more and more people change, about three o'clock at night the families have disappeared completely and the stands have fallen dramatically, some vendors have pulled one or two cases where nice music and shoot high in other situations they started playing with guitars and percussion, the environment still seems very safe, the only presence are a little disturbing ladyboy (transvestite or operated, a former men) who cling to passers-by but maybe they have the wrong neighborhood because it seems that most people are nevertheless very close very quickly, that I have passed back and forth several times with the car photos I have to be hated because I look a little evil.

last thing the pitch of the night with the guys in Australia which offer a beer and chatting with friends of the cartel, every time I take a picture or make a video, everything seems very quiet until a girl comes up to me Israel almost in tears, mutters things that do not understand the beginning and I think that says it wants to be in the video, indicating continuation of the camera, I say that is not a problem and am about to delete the last movie, when taking breath start talking a little better, I look around and try to explain it to calm down, tells me that they stole the purse to her friend With all the money but also your passport, I show the video that I shot, although of course it is almost impossible that I have taken that very scene.

The atmosphere was festive but unfortunately there are dangerous people everywhere, especially if you underestimate the situation too and dancing with her purse behind at night in Bangkok.

not find anything interesting in the video, you can reach her friends, they are pretty desperate and I'm going to try with their passport and purse in the hope that the thief took the money and threw the rest, I refrain from saying that maybe here are also interested to make a passport and insist that the police report, the greeting and then I go back to my hotel, latest photos, latest video and then I go in the room, where I found my mother on skype, I talk to her, assured that I'll see you soon, send them a kiss and faint in the bed.

Here are some shots of the night.