What a heat! Bangkok is the world’s hottest capital, and not just because of all the ladyboys walking around here. With an average temperature of 28 degrees Celsius (82 F) Thailands capital will make you sweat. Life is busy in Bangkok!
Arriving in Bangkok
We land by plane on the international Don Muaeng airport. Immigration is uncomplicated for us as we do not need a visa and the process is well organized. We transfer easily to the city center with Bangkok’s sky train (called BTS), and after another 15 mins walk, reach our hostel (the Yuppie Hostel) in a cozy back alley in the middle of the Bang Rak district. Our choice is perfect: The staff is nice, it’s a calm street, and the quarter has many Thai food stalls directly in front of our door.
Patpong – family friendly night market or red light district?
At night the sidewalks of Silom Road become a busy market where we eat coconut pancakes, fried fish balls and have some Pad Thai.
The popular national street dish Pad Thai consists of fried rice noodles with fresh spring onions and mungo bean sprouts with a bit Thai spices like fish sauce and Thai basil. Thai people add in a teaspoonful of sugar, ground peanuts and chilies each to make the taste complete.We sit down on plastic chairs at a plastic table in the streets and serve ourselves with an additional tablespoonful of peanuts on our Pad Thai.
After dinner we head to the small, but busy Patpong Night Market. Right next to Leo and Singha beer print tshirts, coconut handicrafts and wooden lighter sales stands we look into the open club doors to see young ladies in their underwear dancing on stage, and club advertisers ask (both of) us to have a Leo or Singha beer inside while showing us the “pussy” menu (choose a dancer menu).
Tip: Rooftop Bar Cloud 47
The next night we drink a beer in the Cloud 47 Bar. The sky bar is an open air bar on the 47th floor of a skyscraper in Bang Rak, which sometimes also hosts live music concerts. In contrast to many other sky bars in Bangkok, this one is also affordable for backpackers like us and has no particular dress code requirements. We sit down at one of the glass tables near the glass walled railing of the terrace and look down to the shining street lights of Bangkok’s traffic at night. Lightning flashes up in the distant clouded sky from time to time. Thai electro pop gives the background beat while we enjoy view and drink.
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