Snooping around the World's Largest Adult Tourism Area in Bangkok
VISITING the city of Bangkok there are three destinations most often mentioned if you want to enjoy the night entertainment: Soe Nana, Patpong, and Dome. Three names are always offered taxi drivers or tour guides who take tourists traveling in the Thai capital.
The three names are famous as a favorite place for tourists to spend the night in Bangkok because of a number of "pleasures" are offered. Patpong for example, famous with the night market and localization of night entertainment is legalized by the Thai government. The goal is none other to attract tourists and become income for the government of this White Elephant State.
While the Dome known by performances cabaret lady boy. Lady boy is currently one of the icon of Thailand, is a man who has undergone sex surgery. The lady boy is almost like a woman. Beautiful, pointy nose, proportionate body, and tantalizing breasts of course.
Mid-week ago, Tribune the opportunity to look one of the three famous adult night spots. Not Patpong or Dome, but Nana. In this place there is a complex that presents the largest "adult entertainment" in the world, Nana Entertainment Plaza (NEP).
NEP is famous as one of the red light district in Bangkok. So, if you are traveling with your family, this place is definitely not a destination worth visiting.
Located in Sukhumvit Soi 4, the physical shape of the NEP seen from the outside is a three-story building. The square central atrium is the center of visitor activity.
The NEP area itself is full of bars and cafes serving a variety of beers and spectacles. From live music to sports events on television. And of course that becomes the main dish; entertainment for adults.
Almost all over the NEP is filled with women in minimal clothing and very minimal. Even if you go inside there is no clothes, because strip clubs are scattered on the NEP. And certainly a lot of lady boy super beautiful and sexy seductive. They vulgarly offer themselves to every visitor passing in front of the bar or cafe where they operate.
NEP visitors themselves are mostly foreigners. Some are coming to be "naughty", but some are just around to see.
As a red light district area, not only the NEP is located on Sukhumvit Soi 4 that presents erotic scenery. Along the other alleys in Sukhumvit are also full of women who peddle openly. The operating hours are almost 24 hours non-stop.
Interestingly not only local women, there are also foreign women who participate in "selling". And certainly, the lady boy did not miss out to show off at the curb. As the Tribune passes in front of the lady boy, some of them are engrossed in conversation with each other. Their faces are not less beautiful with women, some even more beautiful. But their voices are still "nge-bass", and laughs like a man laughs.
Sukhumvit is known as an area that never sleeps. During the day, the area is packed with street vendors selling a variety of adult souvenirs. While past midnight, this street turned into a street bar that sells a variety of liquor.
Unlike in Indonesia that menharamkan area like NEP, in Bangkok NEP actually maintained as one of the mainstay tourist destinations that provide income for local communities. There are no cops, no raids, and so on, making the nightlife in Sukhumvit look very "wild".
Although closely associated with the night world, the Sukhumvit area is always crowded with tourists. Understandably Sukhumvit is well-known as an expatriate area. Similar to Jalan Jaksa or Kemang area in Jakarta.
One of the bars in Nana Entertainment Plaza (NEP) area in Bangkok City. NEP is famous as one of the red light district in Bangkok.
If you want to enjoy the other side of Bangkok, and not just a religious-cultural-historical tour, there is no harm in stopping by this Sukhumvit area. Staying there is easy, as there are many choices of hotels in different types and prices. The location of Sukhumvit is also very strategic, reachable with various access such as Bangkok Mass Transit (BTS) and The Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT).