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Third Thai leg of this trip is reported here: https://www.gayguides.com/forums/topic/38766-back-in-thailand-from-laos-november-2022-trip-report/

this is last of 5 reports from month long trip to Thailand, Cambodia, Thailand , Laos and Thailand I took in October and November. Previous legs are reported here : https://www.gayguides.com/forums/topic/38515-shortest-trip-ever-but-still-blood-pressure-rising-report/ Followed by 10 days in Cambodia reported here: https://www.gayguides.com/forums/topic/38619-guys-and-ruins-ruins-and-boys-trip-to-cambodia-in-oct-2022 and 8 days in Thailand reported here : https://www.gayguides.com/forums/topic/38709-back-in-thailand-from-cambodia-october-2022-trip-report/ then 6 days in Laos reported here : https://www.gayguides.com/forums/topic/38752-laos-trip-in-november-2022-report/ Day 1 Before I left for Laos I arranged with driver who took me to Pattaya to pick me up today from Don Muang and drive me there again. It was done both verbal and I left him detailed note, other driver present who spoke good English explained him that too so I expected process to be fast and smooth. When in arrival hall, he was nowhere to be seen so I asked dispatch to call him. He went to Swampy instead ! Realizing his mistake he told dispatch he is not coming to Don Muang to pick me up, rather he will hunt for some fare there. Fine, many fish in the sea, I was ready just to take one from taxi rank but dispatch told me she will have driver for me. We agreed on 1500 price and after about 45 minutes of waiting he showed up. I probably would be better off with my original plan taking somebody from taxi stand but now I had no choice . Can was shiny, driver smiling, it was not taxi , just her friend with car, but who cares ? Transport was secured. In about 2 hrs 20 minutes I was back in Boyztown. On my way I Lined bkkmfj I will be there and he showed up shortly in the soi. Today we decided to have beer at Pikky, after emptying our bottles there we went to Dreamboys. We were only customers there, about 8 boys available but none our type so after finishing out drinks we went to BBB. Boys were standing on the stage , among them few with tops removed . One of them was HC whom I had in Bangkok before going to Laos and who decided to cut his stay with me short. I did not hold any grudges and using ‘vinapu tuck’ tipped him and another bare chested guy as well as one fully dressed who was smiling at me broadly. I was kind of thinking to off one of them three but at one moment I spotted 2 familiar faces – Cambodian boys whom I offed in May along with brother of one of them. They remembered me as well so we were fixed for night today minus brother who was in their room not feeling well. On departure HC smiling asked me if he can see me tomorrow. I told him I will Line him but knew already it will be a case. I got over issue we had long ago and still have soft spot for him. We even shook hands. Bkkmfj went home and I with boys to metal tables restaurant for a dinner as they were hungry. Then to my room at Copa for night of fun. We developed procedure in May and sticked to it so no threesome but two sets twosomes through the night.

not for hotels and restaurants which cater to them

not that you are keen on wasting vacation time Jason😁

and English team got 'fair play ' reward for having least number of yellow cards

They still do, my Air Asia flight to LuangPrabang departed from there and both Siem Reap and Vientiane flights landed there as well

Part 3 - Vientiane After 4 days it was time to take a train although I could easily spend 2-3 more days there. Interesting yet relaxing place. Ticket was arranged by travel agent in the hotel, she also charged me 50000 for a van to railway station so getting there was smooth affair. Luang has distinction of having it’s airport much closer to the city than railway station. Train trip is described there: https://www.gayguides.com/forums/topic/38209-a-ride-on-the-laos-china-railway/ In Vientiane I noticed public bus with sign “Central Bus Station “ so decided to take it instead of fancy vans. I knew that my hotel is walking distance from station but still tuk tuk driver offered mi ride for 50 000 , when I smiled knowingly showing him where hotel is he dropped it to 20000 , now we are talking, for that amount I can travel 2 blocks in style. At hotel we both laughed. I spent 2 day there, Vientiane is not big city and has that provincial feel but main avenue connecting presidential palace with Victory Gate quite impressive. There are several wats spread across the city , at least two of them are a must, oldest in the city Wat Si Saket with thousands of Buddha statues and Wat Phra Kaew , now converted to museum, original site of Emerald Buddha , now in Grand Palace in Bangkok. Close there is walled compound of French embassy and big sized Ukrainian flag on one of walls reminded me about nasty war there . Across the street I found Sacred Heart Catholic cathedral and friendly nun there told me it’s only Catholic church in whole country. Another landmark ancient stupa That Dam was close to my hotel and not far from there is still one more landmark Nam Phu fountain but at that time was in process of renovation and whole place around her was deserted. Central bus station looks half finished but has quite good information desk where staff speaks some English. Morning market with many stalls is just across the street. Stroll along Mekong is very pleasant with rural Thailand on other side. Nong Khai is several km downstream. For those who want to cross to Thailand by bridge to Nong Khai or want to visit Buddha Park there’s half hourly , well posted bus from Central Bus Station taking you to both. Of course I visited most venerated landmark in Vientiane, Golden Stupa That Luang , symbol of country featured on coat-of-arms and every banknote (there are no coins in Laos). It’s about 3 km from city center, I just walked there but took tuk-tuk-back. I had feeling that those 2 days were just enough to see everything, certainly is wort to stop there on a way to or from Luang Prabang , specially now with train whisking between two in just 2 hours. Airport is almost walking distance from the center , probably 6 km from my hotel but when time came to leave I took tuk -tuk for 200 baht from my hotel, this was only time in Laos when I was quoted price in 3 currencies : 100000 kip or 200 baht or 6 dollars. I opted for baht since I wisely run out of kip that morning. Airport is last place one can exchange kip back to dollar or baht, outside of Laos nobody will exchange it. Flight to Don Muang was short and smooth and upon landing I started third and final Thai part of this trip.

at least you can see him , without glasses I don't see much in those mirrors

yes they are . I remember Bravo passing by with some boy and me thinking ' that guy doesn't have any taste in men " ( just kidding , we never met at least knowingly ). But this is true , all punters and their boys were vetted by either Maxi or Dicks patrons. But now it's history and we should think about future as soi Twlight now is nothing more than just shortcut between Rama and Suriwong.

Hurrah ! so it means it's still will be possible to get to and from Don Muang by train. Despite trains being slow and rickety it takes the same time like going by MRT and then change to Red SRT line. And old train station is better positioned / closer / to international terminal at Don Muang. It quite long walk there from new shiny station but stop can be made at food court on the way.

now you know why I'm regular reader of his blog as he has knack of finding tourist attractions everywhere. Speaking about Christian blog, I noticed I can't leave comment there when using Microsoft Edge but no problem under Chrome. Any idea what reason may be?

Sad and probably quite common story in the region but there is spark of light in that, Facebook finally turned out to be good for something very useful

it's only thanks to my Samsung , all my long life I was lousy picture taker and proud of it

and this is how I found about Tropical gardens and Sanctuary of Truth. Wat Siem was also introduced to me on this forum so after all we are not only about whoring but world class travel too. ( Whoring in Thailand is world class indeed anyways )

It probably 5 years since I was last at VCK and I'm glad to learn that nothing changed there. Who would waste time going that far expecting only massage ? Boy there know it and go straight to a task at hand. Bravo's Dreamboy boy probably felt like Christmas is early this year with such generous tip but I always say and do what I preach - it's better to be over generous and part ways happy than economize and end 1/3 satisfied. I too like the mirrors and I noticed few times , boys do to some peeking at it constantly.

I segmented that trip report for simple reason - I did not want threads to be too long. Trip was month long so if I packed everything into one thread I sensed it may be too much one more part of Laos segment is coming and then third. last part of Thailand segment. By Christmas I should be done

they should have some pills or ointment for that

neither, talking about Bangkok which died for Gayinpattaya

at some time after re-unification in Berlin there was different price (lower) for city public transport for former residents of Eastern Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie museum had free admission for citizens of former Eastern Bloc ( Poland , Hungary Romania etc )

part 2 continued For last two days of my stay there was no night market all of the sudden, only food section was opened. It turned out that it was owing to dispute between vendors as to which place belong to whom , police got involved to settle issue but souvenirs seekers all of the sudden had very little choice. Day before I saw some carving I decided to buy to no avail as that vendor along with other did not present his goodies for sale. Walking along the river boat cruises along Mekong are offered , actually quite pleasant idea. Since price is per boat it’s better to join other tourists is there’s opportunity but those are not that expensive at 200 000 (12 $ ) so I splurged twice just to support local economy. Across the Mekong ( ferry 5000, circulates constantly ) there are few temples , rarely visited even if they are so close and rural walk from ferry landing , well marked , between them is pleasant. It’s about 2.5 km so hardly tiring , even in mid day. I was expecting to walk back from the last one but industrious guy with boat eyed me , waved screaming “ city 100 000” so I decided again to support locals although probably overpaid by 50000. Boatmen seeing such stupid and naïve guy took pity and actually awarded me 30 minute cruise along the river before delivering me to the city. Luang is hardly tiring place but I recommend that trip across the river just to relax and see what’s hidden there as you can see below.

Part 2 Most of Luang’s many temples are free but few most impressive and most popular require ticket for 20000 -30000. Popular attraction in Luang is alms giving ceremony at sunrise but I did not partake not only for being lazy to wake up that early but also I don’t believe in converting religious ceremonies into tourist circus. I rather leave to to believers. bit different type of temple Pak Ou caves are in quite a distance upstream so I took a boat tour for that as well, pleasant trip of more than hour. We had luck of seeing shiny train crossing the Mekong. After caves we went to whisky village to taste local moonshine, then to elephant feeding center where before feeding elephant we feed ourselves with a very tasty lunch served there. Then it turned out most people are going to waterfall by the bus but few who did not purchase this option like me got invited to get out in the city . Not that they just dumped us, no , there was van which took us to our hotels free of charge.

dual pricing may be more ubiquitous than we think. In mid-nineties my Australian aunt was surprised to be denied senior discount on metro in Canadian Montreal. They asked for proof of age and upon seeing Australian passport she was informed that discount is applicable only to local residents. Not sure it's still a case

I'm surprised to hear that but it 's what it is . If somebody must not like Pattaya it's better you than for example me

I agree with you on both accounts lots of live and fun to be had in that dead corpse , lol

not only Tesco's , we consumers are not any better. We are appalled and then go shopping and hunt for cheapest prices pretending not to understand connection between price and wages in both factories and sales points.