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Thursday, March 5, 2015
Bangkok Party Shutdown: Confusion as nightlife scene braces for difficult weeks ahead
Those for whom Bangkok’s nightlife is a livelihood as much
as good times are preparing to scale back their offerings on order of
the police, however few seem sure just what exactly that means.
Owners of nightlife venues such as bars and nightclubs and
the organizers who fill them with events said today they are scrambling
to understand just what is expected after being put on notice earlier this week that, for at least two weeks, all operations must cease at midnight.
“This really came as unexpected,” said Matteo Lanna of Elektro Delikatessen,
which stages dance parties at a variety of venues. Lanna said some of
his events may need to be canceled but, like everyone else, he was
hoping to get further information.
Glow Nightclub owner Gert VanSteenbergen said authorities
were enforcing midnight closures but that “nothing was clear at the
moment.” Anders “Outsider” Svensson announced his party there tonight will end at midnight sharp.
Even venues on RCA, which is designated as a licensed
“entertainment zone” and thus should be one of the few places which can
legally remain open until 2am seem affected.
A staff member who answered the phone at Taksura said its
RCA location had been asked by police to close by 1am for at least two
weeks while its Ekkamai location will shutter by 12:30am. The owner of
several venues across the river who was afraid to use his name said he
understood those holding entertainment licenses would be allowed to stay
open until 1am while everyone else must quit by midnight.
Owners and organizers complain that while they were either
directly “notified” of the order or learned of it indirectly, there has
been no official public announcement and nothing in writing apart from
what went out at a meeting with Thonglor police on Tuesday and through
informal police channels since then.
Dark Bar owner Nodnuanwan “Nod” Tatong said she would be closing at midnight on word from police. She wasn't told for how long.
DJ Superstar Panda said his “Thai Break” event this weekend
at Ku De Ta would end at midnight, while a number of venues said they
were taking a “wait and see” approach, likely hoping for a last-minute
reprieve.
Ku De Ta and Grease both said they were aware of the order and were ready to comply but were still trying to confirm it.
“We MIGHT be able to open later than midnight but have to
play by ear … each day,” a Grease staffer said. “We are trying our best
to get people early however [by offering] happy hours buy-one-get-one
free from 7-10pm.”
Even the capital’s red light districts, which seem reliably
unaffected night in and out by whatever crises gripping the nation,
were preparing to go dark.
Nana Plaza go-go bar Spellbound announced last night it had
learned from police it and other venues would need to close early,
though adding more confusion, they indicated a time of 1am.
“Furthermore, the general closing time for bars and clubs
from Thursday, March 5, 2015, will be 1am until further notice. A
duration of 2 weeks was mentioned,” it read. “This is bad news for all
party animals.”
Bangkokians tend to have more fun after dark, but with
those hours become increasingly shorter over the years, midnight
closures have prompted appeals for revelers to start earlier.
Organizers Duck & Noodle moved their Saturday Boat
Party up to 6pm with a midnight finish and appealed to their fans to
arrive early.
Elsewhere the giant Maya EDM fest scheduled for Saturday night on army-owned grounds will end at 12:30am.
Some seemed to take it in stride as the cost of doing business in an unstable environment.
“Don't worry, we will be there for you. Just come a bit
earlier!” pleaded girly bar Spellbound in its announcement. “The benefit
for you is: you'll get more bedtime… The show will go on!”
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Vegetarian Festival, #Phuket.
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival
is a colourful event held
over a nine-day period in October,
celebrating the Chinese community’s belief
that abstinence from meat
Various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar
will help them obtain good health and peace of mind.
Though the origins of the festival are unclear,
it is commonly thought that the festival was bought to Phuket
by a wandering Chinese opera group who fell ill with malaria while performing on the island.
They decided to adhere to a strict vegetarian diet and pray to the Nine Emperor Gods
to ensure purification of the mind and body.
To everyone’s amazement the opera group made a complete recovery.
The people celebrated by holding a festival that was meant to honour the gods
as well as express the people’s happiness at surviving what was,
in the 19th century, a fatal illness.
Subsequently the festival has grown and developed into a spectacular yearly
event that is attended by thousands with participants flying
in from China and other Asian destinations.
One of the most exciting aspects of the festival are the various,
(and sometimes gruesome) ceremonies which are held to invoke the gods.
Fire walking, body piercing and other acts of self mortification undertaken
by participants acting as mediums of the gods, have become more spectacula.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Baan Teelanka $Phuket.
Baan Teelanka Phuket
Opening Hours: From 10:00-18:00
Location: two kilometres from the North entrance of the By-pass Road.
Price Range: Bann Teelanka: adult – 250 baht, children – 150 baht;
A-Maze-in-Phuket: adult – 150 baht, children 100 baht
Baan Teelanka – Upside Down House has opened in April 2014
and is certainly one of the most innovative and original attractions in Phuket Island.
Located on the By-pass Road in the northern outskirts of Phuket Town,
it is a three-storey house built leaning on its roof and adorned
with a maze-shaped garden in its backyard; two different attractions in one place!
Initiated, designed and managed by a charming Swiss-Thai couple,
this well-thought project brings visitors into another dimension
and offers sensational photo opportunities.
In addition to Baan Teelanka and to A-Maze-in-Phuket,
the small complex features already a modern coffee-shop (selling drinks, snacks and sweets)
and will host in a near future a souvenir shop and two other boutiques.
Baan Teelanka is the first and unique (as for today) upside-down house in Thailand;
there are about a dozen upside-down houses in the world,
the first ever to open was Wonderworks Upside Down Building in Florida in 1998.
Baan Teelanka is certainly one of the most accomplished of them with its 13m height
and the outstanding research and imagination it has required to making it so detailed.
Leave all logic behind as you enter the house from its roof.
You will pass the attic before to reach the second floor.
You can visit all the rooms like in a standard house;
the only difference is that you do so as if you would be able to walk on the ceiling!
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Khao San Road #Bangkok.
In addition to being great for adjusting to the culture and climate,
Khao San Road is also a great place to ease yourself
into the intense sensory m-lange that is Thai cuisine.
Restaurants, shacks and stalls on wheels abound,
and most of what’s sold at them toned down to cater to the unadjusted Western palate.
In particular, the spiciness of curries, salads and noodles is much less than locals enjoy eating.
If you like spicy, the phrase ‘ped maak’ should do the trick.
Don’t think its all tame variations on Thai cooking and Western junk food
(Burger King, McDonalds and Subway are all in attendence).
Recent years have seen an upsurge in upscale restaurants and bars,
and the variety and sophistication of the food
available on Khao San Road has rocketed proportionally.
Menus offering interesting fusions of Thai with Western cuisine are now common,
and many establishments and stalls specialist in gourmet international cuisine.
Pizza, sushi, felafel, seafood, fish and chips, and pasta all get a look in.
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James Bond Island, Phang Nga Bay
James Bond Island is a famous landmark in Phang Nga Bay.
It first found its way onto the
international tourist map through its starring role in the James Bond
movie ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’.
A distinctive feature of this
famous bay is the number of sheer limestone cliffs that vertically jut
out of the emerald-green water.
The bizarre, why-doesn’t-it-fall-over outline of James Bond Island or Koh Tapu,
lies next to the equally well known Koh Ping Ghan (sometime spell ‘Ping Gan’ or ‘Ping Gun’).
The entire area surrounding this island is indeed spectacular, but it can get crowded with tourist boats in high season.
Phang Nga Bay covers an area of 400sqkm and is home to some 100 islands,
many of which could feature in The Guinness Book of Records either for their beauty or for their freakish shapes.
James Bond Island, with its signature rocky pinnacle, has been a major attraction ever since it featured in the 1974 Bond movie.
Luckily it is under national park protection and as a result no boats of any kind are allowed to go
too close to the island because of its precarious position big on the upper part and relatively slim at the bottom.
The two best ways to view James Bond Island are from boats or from the small beach on Koh Ping Ghan.
Koh Ping Ghan is another sample of how the Mother Nature works her magic.
Basically it’s a very high leaning rock that has some small caves inside.
It’s pretty amazing and fun to check them all out.
On its crowded eastern beach, there are stalls and stands selling souvenirs, mostly made from shells and woods.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Phuket’s Old Town Renaissance
Fifteen years ago, the historic Old Phuket Town district in Phuket Town
was a charming but slightly faded place in danger
of being lost to modern development. However, Phuket residents
and tourism figures saw the potential in preserving Phuket’s fascinating past
and a restoration effort of the Old Town was launched.
In the years since, the five main Old Town streets,
Dibuk, Thalang, Phang Nga, Rassada and Krabi roads, plus Soi Romanee
and other small lanes have been given a facelift.
Much to every photographer’s delight, unsightly power lines along Dibuk
and Thalang roads have now been buried, allowing the beauty
of the centuries-old Sino-Portuguese buildings to shine through.
More power line projects are in the works for other streets.
Soi Romanee has seen the most striking changes.
This narrow one-way lane was once a rowdy red-light street
for Chinese immigrants back in Phuket’s heady tin-mining days.
Then it saw a decline, and up until about five years ago
most of its buildings sat in an unused and crumbling state.
Since then, nearly all of the two-storey structures lining
the Soi have been given a bright new coat of pastel-toned paint
and some hip cafes and offices have opened up.
A one-stop shop explaining Phuket’s past is found along Phang Nga road.
This new Phuket City Information Centre has photos
and displays that explain the meaning behind
the different architectural details of the buildings in the area,
plus models of an old-style well and oven.
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