Bangkok Part 3: Soi Cowboy

By Joe Berk

Another day, another Bangkok blog, and another famous Thai locale…Soi Cowboy.   Soi means street in Thai, so Soi Cowboy is Cowboy Street. It played a role in the movie Hangover II.   It’s amazing how many famous spots there are in this amazing town.  The guys in orange vests you see in the big photo above are motorcycle taxi dudes.  They take folks (mostly women) around Bangkok on the back of their bikes carving paths through traffic as if it wasn’t there.  It’s an amazing thing to see.

Soi Cowboy is a street that is pretty dead during the day.  When the sun sets, though, Soi Cowboy comes alive.   There are street vendors selling food from their carts.   The clubs come to life.  And the B-girls start doing their thing.  As an older married guy, it all seems pretty silly.  Sue was mortified.  But it is what it is, and I’m going to show you just a little bit of it here.

The clubs are bars with entertainment.  Most of the entertainers are young Thai women.  Most of the entertainees are older western guys.  It’s pretty sad, actually, and I imagine it’s a pretty rough life for the girls.

As always, motorcycles and motor scooters were everywhere.

So that’s it for this post from Thailand.   Watch for scenes from the floating market tomorrow.

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