Trip report Bangkok 05.01.2012 тАУ 10.01.2012

[christianpfc]

Trip report Bangkok 05.01.2012 тАУ 10.01.2012

(continued from Trip report Pattaya 01.01.2012-05.01.2012, this is actually my penultimate holiday, I am getting late with writing the reports)

Tags: Farose II sauna, Mahachai Railway

05.01.2012 Thursday PTY тАУ> BKK

Take bus from Pattaya to Bankok and check in at Penguin House again. At night fish massage, dinner at MaxiтАЩs, Fresh Beach Boys, Saranrom (plenty of boys, but none leaps into my eyes). Still alone, I return to Surawong and have a further look in Soi Twilight, then in Silom.

I am about to go home alone, when an Asian Man in his 30s approaches me and asks if I know if there are any gay bars around that are still open (it was about 1 am). He invites me for a drink at Hotmale Beer Bar. (It turns out he has been to Bangkok many times and asking for information was just a ruse to get my attention тАУ always works.) He claims his sucking and rimming technique has been praised by straight guys and invites me to stay with him over night (to form my own opinion) as he has a double bed room and free breakfast the following morning. He made me curious, so I went with him, otherwise I would wonder the rest of my life тАЮwhat if...?тАЬ.

06.01.2012 Friday Bangkok

The room was really nice, amazing what you get if you are willing to spend several (many) thousand Baht per night! His technique was good, but I need visual and haptic stimulation. No complaints about the breakfast.

We part and I visit a Farang and a Thai friend in Sathorn. At night, I go to Farose II sauna in Ramkhamhaeng (by bus from Sathorn: enter bus 19:37, exit bus 20:18, walk to Farose II arrive 20:30, entry 160 Baht). Do not confuse Farose I (went there once, below my standards), with Farose II (vast, similar to Babylon and according to my requirements).

Not many customers in the early night, around 10 pm I think about leaving when another customer approaches me and tells me it will get full soon. Important information! Chakran gets empty after 10 pm, Farose II get full after 10 pm. There are few other Farangs and I spot a group of non-Thai Asians (they speak a language that is not Thai), so I ask them where they come from, they are Chinese on holiday.

Farose II has free food on the rooftop garden. The main building has 3 or 4 floors. On one of the higher floors, there is a labyrinth and rooms. The rooms have their wall to the outside completely filled by a glass window (outside there are plants in pots), and the remaining walls are covered with mirrors. In the ground floor, there is a disco which gets full. About one out of ten customers is in street clothes. Outside is a pool and little park. Group action takes place in the park. When I leave at 2:43 am, the party is still going. I will be back!

07.01.2012 Saturday Bangkok

Spend the day at Chatuchak Market. Arrange for A to meet me in at 7 pm at my hotel (from previous meetings I knew it would be best to tell him to come at 6 pm and call once or twice in the afternoon to make sure everything is ok). At 9 pm, I finally reach him by phone: he cannot come. By chance, I meet a Farang friend to whom I can whine about my dating problems. But it doesnтАЩt get better from whineing, so I leave and take a look at Hua Lampong. Said Farang friend often goes there to pick up тАЮnature boysтАЬ. And indeed, there is some activity. I finally meet a boy I saw in Soi Twilight not long before and invite him to my room. My first pick up a Hua Lampong. He gets a phone call and has to leave (I wanted long time). He asks for 500 Baht which I give him.

08.01.2012 Sunday Bangkok and Mahachai

Again alone. The market on the railway tracks has been discussed before: http://gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php? ... hai#p31099 (http://gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3047&p=31099&hilit=mahachai#p31099) and has been on my to-do-list for a while.

After some searching on the internet I found out: The tracks are not connected to any other railway network and there are in fact two of them. The first part is from Wong Wian Yai in Thonburi to Samut Sakhon (also known as Mahachai). There is no bridge over Tha Chin river, you have to take the ferry and bord another train (Ban Laem station) which takes you to Samut Songkhram on the Mae Khlong river.

http://www.thailandbytrain.com/MahachaiRailway.html
http://www.thai-schick.de/WestThailand/ ... Inhalt.htm (http://www.thai-schick.de/WestThailand/SamutSongkhram/AmphoeMuangSamutSongkhram/MaeklongBahn/_MaeklongBahnInhalt.htm) (in German, with timetable)

To cut a long story short: I didnтАЩt see the famous railway market (you would have to get up before 10 am to do the whole trip by train on one day), but it was an interesting trip nonetheless and I will be back for the whole trip. General warning: do no stick anything you want to keep out of the train window. I managed to find everything by my own, but it involved some walking.

This is how I proceeded: take BTS to Wong Wian Yai, from there you can walk to the railway station (which is hidden on the west side of Somdet Prachao Taksin Road). The fare is 10 Baht and the ride to Mahachai takes about 1 hour. The train station is in town, surrounded by a market, so you need a map and some sense of orientation to find the ferry port.

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I have time, so I take a stroll through Mahachai.

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Then take the ferry across the river and walk around, looking for the Ban Laem railway station.

View back after crossing the river:

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Some out-of-order trains near the Ban Laem railway station:

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The tracks in front, however, are in use.

On my way back, I pass a shop with a cute boy inside. So I stop to look at the merchandise. The vendors were wondering aloud if the Farang understands Thai, so I said hello and we had a chat in English and Thai. Finally, I was offered a motocy ride (about 2 km) to my next destination, Wat Chawng Lom and Jao Mae Kuan Im Shrine. There is a park at the wat and you can look out to the Gulf of Thailand.

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Adjacent to the wat is Saint Anne Catholic School with a statue of Saint Anne.

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Kuan Im Shrine is on the other side of the main road.

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This is at the smallest point (about 500 m) of the peninsula, and these two statues of female godesses are just a few hundred meters apart. I walk back and am suprised how clean streets and sidewalks are. The secret is: there are blue drums every 100 m, and people throw their waste into these drums.

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That would be a good idea to introduce in Bangkok or Pattaya! Take ferry back to the Bangkok side of the river. Walking from the ferry port (with clock tower, in the background) to the railway station, I see my first elephant in Thailand that is not in a zoo.

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I couldтАЩt take the second train that drives through the famous market on the railway tracks, so this is all market on railway track I saw:

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Return to Bangkok and meet a Thai friend at his place for some conversation. Then go to Hotmale Gogo and DJ station, leave both alone. Go back to the food stall near Soi Twilight, where I join a group of gay Thai boys. One of them is my type. We all go to Wat Hua Lampong to make merit and then walk back to Silom. I thought everything is clear, so I flag down a taxi and we both get in, but then a discussion with his friends ensues, and after getting in and out of the taxi several times (exaggeration), I go home alone.

09.01.2012 Monday Bangkok

Spend most of othe day at Central World. Dinner in Soi 4. At night, another trip to Saranrom. There is a night market northeast of the Royal Palace that is worth visiting as well. Plenty of boys, this time no further excuses, I invite one of them to my hotel room. The disadvantage of host bars and Saranrom is that you canтАЩt see if they have tattoos. My new friend had a few of low quality, one tattoo looked like a man with a lawnmower. I never saw a lawnmower in Thailand, how did he get this tattoo? Tip 500 Baht plus 100 Baht for taxi.

10.01.2012 Tuesday Bangkok тАУ> Paris

Get up at noon, lunch, packing, taxi to airport and check-in without problems. Return to Paris.

ChristianPFC will be back!

[adman5000]

Thanks for the trip report and details. Now next time you should try to get pics of the cute boys you talk to!

[gaymandenmark]

A very nice tripreport, with some nice pics. But I have some q├║estions.


Trip report Bangkok 05.01.2012 тАУ 10.01.2012

We part and I visit a Farang and a Thai friend in Sathorn. At night, I go to Farose II sauna in Ramkhamhaeng (by bus from Sathorn: enter bus 19:37, exit bus 20:18, walk to Farose II arrive 20:30,


I am very impressed that you after so many months remember what time you enter and exit the bus, and the walk to Farose II, or did you write it down in your little book.




General warning: do no stick anything you want to keep out of the train window. I managed to find everything by my own, but it involved some walking.

Where in the world would you stick anything out of a train window, if you want to keep it? and what was the stuff you wanted to keep, a fish, some beers or a cute boy :love4: :love4:

[anonone]

Thanks for posting this Christian. I love looking over your trip reports...always something to learn and a unique perspective on Thailand.

khop kuhn mak krap.

Likewise I always enjoy reading your reports Christian, but was very disappointed to read that on this report there was absolutely NO mention as to the price of a piece of fruit anywhere throughout your whole trip - you're slipping up, if this was a school report it might read "must try harder!" lol :-)

[dab69]

"Take bus from Pattaya to Bankok and check in at Penguin House again. At night fish massage,"

Do they hit you with trout?

No, you've misunderstood.

He takes a fish to bed and massages it.

Provided it has no tattoos of course.


:party

[christianpfc]

Gaymandenemark, of course I don't remember how long the bus trip and the walk to Farose II took, that's why I write such things down. So they might serve as an orientation for others (and for me as well, but when in Bangkok I navigate by estimations as I don't have my records with me).

Do not stick your had, your hand or anything else out of the train window. There is vegetation and buildings that almost touch the train when it drives past. You can look into people's living rooms when you drive past (but don't stick your head out of the window!).


there was absolutely NO mention as to the price of a piece of fruit anywhere throughout your whole trip
Your memory is as short as your dick. My expenses are separate in an earlier post.

There was a fish massage (doctor fish, these fish who nibble the dead skin on your feet away) on Surawong opposite the entrance to Soi Twillight (so you could have a look who's coming and going, but a bit too far away), but now (September 2012) it is gone.

[gaymandenmark]

Do not stick your had, your hand or anything else out of the train window. There is vegetation and buildings that almost touch the train when it drives past. You can look into people's houses when you drive past (but don't stick your head out of the window!).



General warning: do no stick anything you want to keep out of the train window. I managed to find everything by my own, but it involved some walking.


Dead man walking :sign5:

[Jellybean]

Yet another interesting, funny and extraordinarily detailed trip report with great photos Christianpfc, which I enjoyed immensely.

I am quite envious that you seem to do and see far more in a few days or weeks than I manage to do in months of living in Bangkok. I really must get out more and, not for the first time, IтАЩll try visiting the off the beaten track sights you have a knack of finding.

[joe552]

Thanks for posting, christian - interesting to see some lesser known areas of Bangkok.

[pong]

part II-that old BKK feeling.
Wrote remarks on what I happened to see 1st-on gaybutton.
BUS in BKK; yesterday I saw a new busmap for 99 bt- Thinkmaps, which is quite clear and all up to date. Buy at the usual Thai mag-shops, B2S or See-ed. And der Chris reads Thai-the whole route is always clearly written out on all buses. That time is really very, very quick for Satorn-RKH (actually bus from Ram IV-the 109), yesterday took me longer from just BigC Kl Toey to halfway Satorn.

And that BKK_feeling.
While I sit early morning in this otherwise near empty cafe/internetshop (buy card for 10 hrs=99bt, plus free coffee on buying) there is the usual Thai girl left unpaid by her tempy farang boyfriend and screaming out loud via facebook and skype etc. But the money is likely not going to appear. Hard job for such girls in an area not really used too much to kept relations with mia-noi. Staff is now even looking worried-she screams really loud.