"Khao San road - Bangkok"
Khao San road in Bangkok is normally one
place I avoid like the plague. Why? - far too many foreigners there. I
don't travel to an exotic place like Thailand to hang out with a bunch
of people from my own country. I have never understood why folks do
that. And the worst part is that the majority of the foreigners found
there are the grunge type hippy backpackers - in my opinion the most
annoying type of traveler.
The one good thing I have experienced at Khao San road is that there was vendor on the street selling used gear from an old food cart . Apparently a lot of hippy backpackers pawn there gear to this guy for weed or food money. Obviously they never go back to get their pawned gear. Some of it was pretty good stuff. It was good for me,and im sure for other travelers in need of quality stuff for a low price.
I had heard also that there were "Cheap" hotel rooms and Hostels in the Khao San road area, the cheapest I found was 300 Baht for a small room with a ceiling fan, no bathroom,and no mattress on the bed - no thanks. In short - if you are an older traveler who enjoys comfort and convenience, avoid KSR, leave it to the hippys and young folks.
The one good thing I have experienced at Khao San road is that there was vendor on the street selling used gear from an old food cart . Apparently a lot of hippy backpackers pawn there gear to this guy for weed or food money. Obviously they never go back to get their pawned gear. Some of it was pretty good stuff. It was good for me,and im sure for other travelers in need of quality stuff for a low price.
I had heard also that there were "Cheap" hotel rooms and Hostels in the Khao San road area, the cheapest I found was 300 Baht for a small room with a ceiling fan, no bathroom,and no mattress on the bed - no thanks. In short - if you are an older traveler who enjoys comfort and convenience, avoid KSR, leave it to the hippys and young folks.
Khao San Road (Thai: ถนนข้าวสาร) is a short street in central
Bangkok, Thailand. It is in the Banglamphu area of Phra Nakhon district
about 1 kilometer north of the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew.
"Khao san" translates as "milled rice", a reminder that in former times the street was a major Bangkok rice market. In the last 20 years, however, Khao san Road has developed into a world famous "backpacker ghetto". It offers cheap accommodation, ranging from "mattress in a box" style hotels to reasonably priced 3-star hotels. In the backpacker culture, Khao san Road is to some, "the place to disappear". It is also a base of travel, buses leave daily for all major tourist destinations in Thailand, from Chiang Mai in the north to Ko Pha Ngan in the south, and there are many relatively inexpensive travel agents who can arrange visas and transportation to the neighboring countries of Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
See you on the trail!
"Khao san" translates as "milled rice", a reminder that in former times the street was a major Bangkok rice market. In the last 20 years, however, Khao san Road has developed into a world famous "backpacker ghetto". It offers cheap accommodation, ranging from "mattress in a box" style hotels to reasonably priced 3-star hotels. In the backpacker culture, Khao san Road is to some, "the place to disappear". It is also a base of travel, buses leave daily for all major tourist destinations in Thailand, from Chiang Mai in the north to Ko Pha Ngan in the south, and there are many relatively inexpensive travel agents who can arrange visas and transportation to the neighboring countries of Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
See you on the trail!
Tomahawk
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