My Initiation into the Backpacking Underworld
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Over the past few months I’ve been getting disapproving looks from people when I say I’m a backpacker, yet have never been to Bangkok. A few times people have even started stories only to trail off with “Oh, you’ve never been, I forgot…”
Well, I’m finally in the club.
I was expecting big things when I arrived on Khao San Road, the backpacker ‘ghetto’ of Bangkok. A traveller I spoke to in Malaysia said she could only stick it for about 10 minutes and had to get away. Other bloggers have described it as the scariest place they’ve ever seen. This guy had me more than a little nervous. I was expecting a dark gloomy alley where people get to and from their hotel as quickly as possible – like my old haunt, Stuart Lane in Calcutta.
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