Kaosan
Kaosan is a district of Bangkok (Thailand), very known for its many houses of host ( guest houses ), small economic hotels, which propose cheap excursions through all the country. The district is located not far from the Large palace at the center-north of the city. It is the appointment of the tourists rather routards , in particular in the very famous kaosan raod, long of approximately 500m, and centers of meeting of the " backpackers" in Bangkok. Formerly relatively calm and typical, this district attracted always more travellers until it completely loses its typicity through constructions of guest house and hotels in all kind, and of surge at the same time of tourists coming to succumb to night temptations, and inhabitants of Thailand eager to fill this type of aspirations.
Although gravitational because all opportunities of the city are represented there, and close to many tourist places, it became a place in which one loses finally the contact with true Bangkok which is not summarized at a market for tourists in evil of consumption (who besides are far from finding best the offers there nor the most typical products most beautiful or of the city), but offers much more to those which preserving the spirit of the backpackers move away from this canted tourist heart, agitated and noisy.
Its main street, Kaosan Road , is the place or one can often find of all, very cheap for the Westerners, with already made remarks Ci above. The prices of the guest house (possibility of negotiating) vary on a scale of 2 dollars to more than 20 dollars the night according to the services and of the localization in the district, and the evening, of many roulottes of street propose dishes to be carried for 50 centimes. Two seven-eleven are established in the street, just as MacDonald for the many tourists in evil of Western food. The market of the counterfeits is also very flourishing near the Western customers who can buy there false identity papers or charts of journalist their countries, and all kinds of products, since antiquities to the clothing counterfeited while passing by the diques ones and DVDs has prices defying any legal competition. Attention besides with your passage to the customs where it may be that you learn bitterly that you misused the counterfeits (that it is voluntary or not). In addition, and just as for Bangkok in general, the travel agencies are flourishing in the district, making it possible to hold and modulate voyages to measure towards all the remainder of Asia at prices defying any competition (after negotiation).
One can find the environment of this district in the film the Beach, with Leonardo DiCaprio, which was turned there partly.
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