Khao San Road, Bangkok
Khao San Road Sunset, Bangkok, originally uploaded by benedict.adam.
Khao San road must be one of Bangkok’s most vibrant streets, backpackers from all around the world come together here, to make it their base for exploring the rest of Thailand, take advantage of the cheap travel agents and cheap accommodation and to stock up on cheap clothes, cheap CDs and DVDs and much more.
If your off to a neighboring country from Bangkok, you can save by taking public transport but if you do use a cheap travel agent make sure you arrange your Visa first, other wise you will be over charged by the cheap travel agent at the border.
We got a tourist bus across into Cambodia and it was a strange experience, felt a bit like a school trip and gave me a dirty cheating kinda feeling, I’d opt for public transport next time.
In my opinions Khao San Road is good fun, it is incredibly touristy and commercial but will only make you appreciate getting of the beaten track more.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Glad you are updating again. Khoa San is the gateway to Asia! You can get everywhere from there…but it’s important to know the shops. Alot of them are very bad but there are a few ones that are very good. check out the isreali shop…that is very good.
July 25th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Cheers for the tip Matt, I wish I could post more often but its been so sunny outside
July 26th, 2008 at 6:15 am
I was based in Bangkok for two years once and I lived in a Thai hotel, in a Thai neighbourhood – so I rarely heard English, except when trying to get some work done. When I wanted to be surrounded by the English language and had a yearning for banana pancakes, I’d head down to Khao San… same with cotton trousers in large women’s sizes!
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:42 am
why when ever i go to KSR it always looks really busy and never like that?