Inspired Travels

This is a catchup post about Thailand which seems like a distant memory.

Clubbing in Bangkok

Our second night in Bangkok, we hit up RCA (Royal City Avenue). It is an entertainment district. There was like 4 nightclubs in a row on this one street. The club we went to was the 2nd last one, which had one room for techno/house music, another room for RNB and the last one for a live rock band. The rnb and rock band areas were absolutely jam packed. We definently had a lot of fun.

One peculiar thing is that in these clubs, there’s lots of tables setup. People book these small tables and standaround them, ordering bottles of alcohol. Its bottle service basically. And they dance around these tables. All night. There’s no dedicated dance floor area. So if you don’t have a table, its very difficult to stand anywhere, especially in a large group. Its a totally different scene to back home. In fact, I don’t know how anyone meets someone outside their immediate group.

I thought that this phenomena was peculiar to this area in Bangkok. We then went to Escobar, in Ekkamai. Its kinda like Surry Hills back home and everyone was doing the same thing there too. Luckily, we got there earlier this time (around 9.30pm) so we were able to secure some seats and tables.It was a local club, so not many tourists were around, and we had a great time.

One thing I don’t like about Bangkok, is the weather. Its really hot. ALL DAY! When we walked out of the club into other areas, via an open outdoor area, it felt like you were in an oven. and this was at 11pm at night.

Ko Phangnan to Koh Samui

Some random points

- It seemed like every party at Ko Phangan had a top 5 list of songs, which they played on heavy rotation.

- The taxi ride from Koh Samui big buddha pier to our hotel was probably the funniest moments on the trip. We landed at the pier and we organised two taxi vans for everyone in our group. In our taxi for 7 of us, the taxi looked it had been decked out. I’m not sure what it was, but we had seen some tricked out taxi’s in Thailand.

Our taxi driver said “what music do you want?”. We said “hip hop”. He put in a CD and the most deafening bass started pumping out of the speaker behind my head. I can’t remember what song it was, it was a song being played over and over again at the full moon party and #1 song in Australia. A dance party then erupted in our van as all 7 of us started dancing and shaking the van. I was laughing so hard I was crying. And we hadn’t even pulled out of the pier driveway.

We then drove about 15 mins to the hotel, going through his hip hop song list including Black Eyed Peas “boom boom pow” song. It was absolutely hilarious. The driver also joined in and started pulling out some moves. Scott’s got the video so I’ll upload it soon.

I’m out like the full moon party,

Matt