the evening we were suppose to go to the girlie clubs at Pat-Pong was the very same evening the Coronation celebration occurred. we found this out the hard way by attempting to take a taxi from where we were – Banglamphu – to the Riverside/Silom area. Firstly there was bumper to bumper traffic and no one wanted to pick us up. Once we finally got into the taxi the taxi driver asked us where we wanted to go – we said “PatPong” – he laughed and said – “Oh you want to see ping-pong show” then he suggested “no good tonight – go tomorrow – it will take 2 hrs to get there – king – celebration” so we agreed. once we got out of the taxi – not even a mile from where the taxi picked us up – we noticed everyone milling around…walking everywhere…then noticed the celebration on Ratchadamnoen Klang (what would be equivalent to Market St.). All the main streets were shut down…we ended up spending the whole evening walking around and soaking of the festivities…a much better alternative than watching gross white pasty men propositioning 12yr olds. here are some images.
