Khao San Road is essentially a tourist ghetto and backpacker haven in central Bangkok. We checked into the D&D Inn (which, mind you, turned out to be NOTHING like how it was depicted online) and hit the streets to familiarize ourselves with the area.
Right off the bat, the most prevalent sights on Khao San Road:
1) Street vendors peddling their array of touristy wares and cheap apparel (tanks and tees, each literally featuring one of the same tree designs — Red Bull logo, Singha beer logo, Chang beer logo).
2) Food hawkers with their carts, offering phad thai, tom yum soup, fried rice, fresh fruit, fruit smoothies…
3) Tattoo parlors. Nearly one every other storefront. Many Thais here are tatted and pierced to some extent, and the same is reflected in the type of foreigners staying in Khao San: plenty of hippies and free spirit-backpackers with tats, piercings, gauges…
4) Massage parlors, which fill in all the storefronts between the massage parlors. They specialize in oil massages, Thai massages, and many feature those fish spas — tanks of dead-skin-eating-fish that nibble on your callused feet… I opted for a Thai massage, which I would advise be done before a meal rather than after, because the dude was pressing down so hard on my ribcages and stomach. An interesting experience, though I daresay I felt more sore afterward than I had been coming in.
Patting myself on the back for making it through a day of exploring in stifling heat and humidity after a long day in Düsseldorf and a sleepless flight to Bangkok, AND managing to hand-wash all my laundry before collapsing into my bed the first night in Thailand.
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Thai massages and fruit smoothies? Count me in! sounds like you are really taking advantage of the areas you visit and what they have to offer- keep the photos coming! So jealous of your adventures.
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