Bangkok

Visited Krung Thep aka Bangkok a few days ago. Krung Thep as it is fondly called by locals means “City of Angels”… though that is something that is soooo not what we associate with it.. unless you call fair, porcelain skinned, skimpily dressed thai girls, angels…. And in reality some do….

The trip encompassed 2 days in Pattaya and half a day in Bangkok. Needless to say, the half a day in Bangkok was utilized to shop shop and shop some more. The real adventure lay in Pattaya where we discovered new cultures, new food….and new friends !

The heart of Pattaya lies in the famous.. or should I say infamous walking street. 2 odd Kms of massage parlours, bars, discos, street food and street fucks. Every sight on the walking street is a very shocking, amusing, exciting(for guys and girls who swing the other way ) yet a very depressing sight. With girls as young as 12 – 13 twisting themselves around to pleasure old thurki firangs and thai men pimping out their own wives, amidst all the fun and sexual vibe of the place… it’s a completely different feeling to step back and try to understand the reality of the place.

A country, so beautiful, so much into peaceful Buddhism, marred by poverty and sustained by the sex trade… Thailand – the land of smiles as it is called is a perfect example of the helplessness and surrender of humanity. It is exhausting to see so much flesh being thrown your way, how can this be the only way for a country to survive. I’ve always propagated the existence of prostitution pockets in cities, it does help in keeping the crime rate in control. And here is a country that is the prostitution center of the world and it eeks me to see how the entire world got together to fuck a country to a level where skin is a commodity and marriage is a business arrangement…. It is truly the “City of Angels”… after all no human would have the heart to serve the world in such a way.