Bangkok Travel Blog

One of my favorite real estate brokers in Bangkok. This small agency is run by a lovely young laddy: Tuk. She helped me to find a nice 3 BR apartment around lower Sukhumvit Road. Well, actually I was looking for a 2 BR around 40k to 50k Thai Baht. Once I told her what I was looking for she lined up 10 properties for me to look at within just one day. All of the properties she showed me great, but most of them a bit more expensive than my initial budget. Actually, in that one day tour she showed me more interesting objects than all other real estate brokers have showed me over several weeks. If you look for a upscale Bangkok condominium for rent, I would recommend contacting Tuk. I am sure she will take good care of her customers.

Sometimes I am looking for new restaurants to visit for a special dining experience in Bangkok. Most websites geared at foreigners are full of paid ads and one-sided paid reviews that continue to write about the same advertisers all the time. Dining in Thailand is a nice exception from this rule. It features short reviews and their own photos from BKK restaurants sorted by type of cuisine. Further information about dress codes, Wifi access, MSG use and pricing level are provided in a handy paragraph on the left hand sidebar. Thai webistes directory is another list of Bangkok restaurants, but it is limited to those with an internet address.

A spiffy Youtube video clip about buzzling China Town Bangkok. It shows various sequences from the markets between Hua Lamphong railway station enroute to the Royal Palace and Wat Po. A lot of merchandise from herbs to clothing and hardware.

It's one of the nicest upscale shopping centers of Bangkok: The Emporium. Located along Sukhumvit Road and Soi 24 in the south of central Bangkok. It hosts a large department store as well as upmarket designer outlets like Chanel, Ungaro, Louis Vuitton and Guess to mention just a few. It's also home of two large food courts with countless outlets specializing in Thai and international cuisine as well as a modern SFX cinema. Their gourmet super market offers international groceries including Swiss chocolate.

The main entrance of Emporium Shopping Complex on Sukhumvit Road

This is more than just a Shopping Center: Siam Paragon is Bangkok's newest mega mall shining with the most expensive goods you can imagine. Wanna buy a Porsche or a Maserati? Sure, most luxury car importers have set up shops on the third floor as well as upscale fashion brands like Chanel and Hermes. A huge department store, tech and consumer outlets, cutting edge large screen digital cinemas and a sea aquarium in the basement are just a few things you can expect in this great mall. While many other Bangkok shopping markets host many smaller stores and booth, Siam Paragon is all about being huge and prestigious. A way of Thai people to get away from the cheap goods reaching out for high end expensive qulity brands like known from Singapore and Tokyo. The outdoor area is frequently used for media events, concerts and fashion shows.

Siam Paragon Shopping center main entrance. Photography inside the building is prohibited

Thailand is famous for it's beautiful transgender people. The Kathoeys are accepted by society and for many visitors and Thailand tourists they are an attraction by themselves with their beauty and kindness. There are various cabaret shows all over Thailand that offer dance and musical shows with Kathoeys. One of the is the Mambo Cabaret that shows two performances every night at 8 pm and 10 pm. The theater is located along Sukhumvit Road and Soi 22, just a short distance away from BTS station Phrom Phong and the Emporium Shopping Center. Entrance fee is 400 Baht for regular seats and 800 Baht for VIP seating. The dance show lasts around 50 minutes. The performers are available for pictorials after the show for a small fee of 20 baht per picture.

A retty Thai lady who was born as a man performs at Mambo Cabaret Bangkok

The newest serviced apartment hotel from Centre Point offers very exclusive Bangkok city accommodation in the middle of the the bustling Thai capital. Stays are available nightly and monthly. Click on the image to get further apartment booking info.

Located in the heart of the city in walking distance of Siam Square and the National Stadium lays Bangkok's first large shopping center MBK. It's stores sell about every merchandise that is available from clothes to furniture, but it is best known for it's large electronics section of cellular phones. Brand new and second hand mobiles are available for a fraction of prices that most tourists are used from their home countries.

A night view of MBK shopping center

One of the fastest and safest ways of moving around Bangkok City is a train called BTS Skytrain. The rails run on an elevated track 10 meters above the streets. There are 2 lines that run across the Thai capital from 5 am until midnight. Plans and schedules are published on all tourist maps. BTS offer one-way trips starting from just 15 Baht for the distance of one station. Day passes are available for 100 Baht and long time tourist as well as local residents usually prefer to use stored value cards that can be recharged on demand at every BTS station.

Skytrains run every couple of minutes. This image shows BTS skytrain station Asok on the Sukhumvit line

Patpong is a busting place at night. Countless vendors sell souvenirs, bags, clothes, shoes, jewelry and watches. Hustlers try to lure first time tourist into dark corners with seedy bars. Actually, the bars are the main attraction for single male travelers who want to enjoy booze and watching scantily clad agogo dancers inside the neon-lit bars with seductive names like 'Super Pussy' and 'Electric Blue'. Many bars have very attractive 'ladies', but be aware a lot of the gorgeous ladies inside the bars have been men before they underwent gender change surgery. If you can't hold back from visiting those bars, watch your bill. These places are known for bill padding for shows and ladydrinks.

An angle from Patpong at night. Markets and bars illuminate the nightly quarter