I travel Bangkok on foot
Bangkok is a major city with a big public transportation network. There are taxis, tuk tuks, motorbike taxis, the MRT, the BTS, buses, trains, bicycle sharing, and ride share apps. But guess what? Ninety nine percent of the time I travel Bangkok by foot.
Getting around Bangkok is a major pain in the ass otherwise. Sure it’s not as bad as Manila or Jakarta. One reason I don’t write about those two cities much is that I mostly avoid them. The grind of doing something as basic as crossing the road in those two urban cesspools is enough to keep me away. Even though there is tons of good and easily available pussy in each.
Bangkok is more open and easy to get around. At least in comparison to some other Asian metropolises. Sure it is no Berlin or Tokyo. But you can actually navigate most of the city with your own two feet.
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I have been to Bangkok more times than I can count. Sometimes I stay for a few days while in transit to some other destination. But I’ve stayed as long as a year straight. That year was probably a little too long though. Everyone needs a break eventually.
When I am in Bangkok I rarely stay anywhere other than lower Sukhumvit. Usually somewhere between Central Embassy and Terminal 21. And never more than a 5 minute walk from Sukhumvit Road.
If you get deeper down the side sois you can find much cheaper hotels and apartments. But then you have a sweaty walk just to get to Sukhumvit. Or you risk your life by riding on the back of one of those fucked up mini bikes driven by even more fucked up dudes in orange vests.
I don’t want to die with a cracked skull on the Bangkok pavement like so many other suckers before me. So I station close to Sukhumvit and travel on my own two feet. That way when a truck comes barreling at me in the wrong direction I at least have a chance to jump out of the way.
My usual Bangkok plan
When I stay in the said area I am in immediate walking distance of all the best parts of Bangkok. I can walk to any Bangkok BJ bar, most oily massage parlors, Nana Plaza, Soi Cowboy, and if the weather is right even Patpong.
Now the walk from Nana to Patpong is about forty five minutes long, so you don’t want to take that stroll if it’s hot, humid, or rainy. Which is to say most of the normal weather conditions in Bangkok. But I have done it quite a few times on cooler dryer evenings. It saved me from getting jammed in with lots of unwashed dudes with sweaty armpits on the BTS. Or arguing with taxi drivers who say the trip is 300 Baht when in reality it is more like 50 if they would use the meter.
Of course 250 Baht isn’t a big deal. Neither is the 10 or 20 you spend on the BTS. It’s more a matter of dignity for me. Maybe it’s my latent Americanism but I don’t like to be bossed around or herded like cattle. It just sticks in my craw. Especially if I have to deal with cheating cab drivers or stinky mother fuckers who don’t clean their bodies before jamming into a train like sardines in a can.
Not to mention that walking can actually be the faster way to get around Bangkok. The BTS and MRT can get so crowded at times that you have to wait thirty minutes just to get on board. Then you’re lucky if you will even fit in the fucking train. Not to mention that most of those elevated stations require you to walk up 3 flights of stairs to even get to the train. Then 3 more flights down to leave at the exit. If you’re already walking that much why not just walk the whole way?
Cars are no better. Ever see the traffic on Sukhumvit in the evening? It can take 30 minutes for a taxi to get through Asoke intersection at times. Forget about it if you’re on the wrong side of the road. Then your taxi has to go up several blocks just to turn around. Meanwhile you can walk from Nana to Soi Cowboy in a matter of minutes.
One of the reasons I stay fit even now is that I take care of my body. I eat healthy and walk whenever I can. I don’t overdo it on stuff like booze and I stay away from addicts and the poisons they ingest.
This leaves me with time, money and energy to indulge in the best stuff on earth: pussy holes and mouths! There’s plenty of both in Bangkok and most is easy to reach on foot.
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I tend to walk more than the average urban commuter as well, though I will take public transit like the BTS/MRT whenever possible. There’s an immersive experience you get when walking the streets of a metropolitan city, as opposed to taxi-ing everywhere and seeing everything through a car window. Sometimes you end up walking through boring residential, or even commercial, areas with nothing to see, but that’s part of the exploration.
I didn’t get a chance to try the public transit system in Jakarta, but as someone who prefers walking, I was surprised by the lack of sidewalks in Jakarta. I’ve never been in a city where a simple exercise like walking was seemingly prohibitive.
Hey bro, always glad to hear from you. When you say “I’ve never been in a city where a simple exercise like walking was seemingly prohibitive” it makes me wonder if you’ve ever been to Manila. That place makes Jakarta look like Central Park! Parts of North Jakarta have sidewalks. Sure they are busted up, but it’s nothing like the parts of Manila where you are forced to walk right in the street with the cars and bikes.
I wonder if someone like you has any decency left to repent to his creator and seek forgiveness.
Or whether the corruption of the soul and mind has reached a point of no return.
If someone like you can be saved from eternal Hellfire, I most definitely would’ve encouraged it.
God Almighty even gave the evil dictator pharaoh a chance.
IDK about all that, but I did manage to get a handy from a born again convert in Bangkok. Praise Jeebus!
Haha yeah, I’ve been in Manila and stayed mostly in Makati. It seemed to be okay around that area, though a glimpse of the rest of the city as I was heading to Angeles City was an eye-opener. As you mentioned before, the Philippines can be a difficult place to stay. I can imagine the frustration would wear on a person after a while. Jakarta’s traffic felt like the worst of the three cities. I actually didn’t even see the public rail transit there. It’s crazy how a city of more than 30 million has such poor transportation infrastructure. I need to spend more time in JKT and MNL to get a better feel for the cities, however. That’s hard to do with limited travel time, especially when considering BKK beats both in so many aspects.
If you think public transport in Jakarta is bad, wait until you get to Kinshasa, Los Angeles, or Arlington Texas! I use apps with taxis and chicks in Jakarta. And I stay close to where I plan to travel. Or I make people travel to me. Like Manila, it’s just too fucked up to do anything else. No amount of local flavor could make me ever ride a jeepney or trike ever again.
Have you lived in Hua Hin? What do you think of the quality of life there?
I’ve never lived in Hua Hin. But I’ve been there. Pretty sleepy beach town that seemed like most other small cities in Thailand to me.
What’s a good, chill, clean city with nice beaches and some decent adult entertainment in SE Asia? Nha Trang?
Nobody ever talks about the beaches and coast line between Phuket and Jakarta- any good beaches by Kula Lumpar, Singapore, or anywhere else on those peninsulas?
PS-Ragnar you sound American flyover country Protestant (their whole theology is a ripoff of Rome just a bunch of Ray Bobs who all want to be their own little redneck Popes so they can have all the money and power/control over their local flocks instead of giving any cash back to Rome)Christian fundamentalist. Your demographic and Muslims are the only two groups that go around telling everyone if they don’t believe you guys theology then they will perish. Why don’t Judaism, Budhism, pagans (what Europe historically was for most of its history, go look up Varg Vikernes on Twitter) and so many other groups do that? They don’t have to think they’re right about everything all the time like you guys do. The way most of you Protestant fundamentalists never study anything else outside of your own literature seems like cultish behavior really, if you spent more time studying other belief systems you might not be so high on the ego trip of religiosity your group has indoctrinated you with. Learn some new info man- Go read and watch some John Loftus and Jay Campbell (look up the Vatican translator whistleblower Maurilo Bustamonte show Jay did) on YouTube and Twitter. Loftus and Campbell will both debate you or the best theologian you know- go comment your ideas and discuss them with those guys on Twitter and YouTube or their blogs and post a link here and I will gladly read it and join in the discussion man. No hard feelings dude just realize not everyone wants to be told what to do and how bad they are and then asked for money by the same group every week who guilt trips them like some fear based cult would exploit its membership dude, all the best.
Clean city, decent adult entertainment, AND nice beach in the same place? Never seen it.
Guess Thailand offers the best of all worlds then. Just drive from city to city, get what u need and move on. Where do u recommend living in Bangkok long term?
I don’t recommend anything.
Fair enough! It’s up to me to figure out my own life
All the new train lines coming up
should make coming and going easier though!
Hopefully more people will use the news trains and make it easier for me to walk or drive around.