some more on Phuket- Pa Tong

Life on Phuket island burts at Pa Tong beach- the Cancun of Thailand, over commercialized tourist trap, but still a place you should see. This is a place where you find everyone and everything: bars, parties, deafening music from every corner, lady boys and girls dancing on bar's counter-tops to attract tourists; galleries, cheap stalls and travel agencies, street massages and more.
We came out here one of the evenings for some nightlife action-we saw it all in its beauty and ugliness.  Unfortunately not all the pictures survived and below is all i've got for today, however some basic guidance in words:
Most of the bars and action is concentrated on Soi Bangla. Few of the famous bars are Soi Katoey(famous for its lady boy stage, if any of you is interested :)), Soi Eric and Soi Easy(mostly australian crowd). Here you are likely see a lot of white men in their 50s with young Thai women, a lot of Israelis out of army guys looking for a free hook up and Russian tourist looking for a good bargain.

massages in the mall approx 12$ for 65 mins.

There is something about Phuket

yes, yes, yes ... there is something about Phuket - SALA Phuket- a paradise on earth. This one is not to miss.

Just to give a quick preview, Phuket is the largest island in Thailand, a historical crossover between east and west. Today it attracts most of his tourists to the Patong beach-the center of its nightlife, never ending parties, tolerated prostitution, strong drinks and rest of activities of any kind. Fun, fun, fun for out of army Israelis :), backpackers from all over, party animals and men in their fifties hoping for a second Renaissance.

Thailand- the land of smiles or the land of smells?

Rudyard Kipling, "The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it"

Yes Thailand smells. No matter where u go, u will smell it. The smells can differ from the most wonderful ones like orchids and lemongrass to food smells( which can be also very different) to literally garbage. And it is not hard to imagine that money smells like orchids and poverty like a dried salted fish. Though there are some rich people in Thailand (about 40%), there also some poor ones that in a good case live with 200 Baht per day(6$).

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this smells!