Chapter 2. Lemongrass Stains - Bangkok : Home Away from Home
June 26th 2007
Bangkok is a frenetic urban steam bath of shops, food stalls, and markets sheltered by a growing glossy skyline. Its historical welcome center for its ex-patriot counterculture is Khao San Road, a Walt-Mart Supercenter of backpacker frugality. Whatever you heard about Khao San, some of it is probably true: soulless, a Caucasian ghetto, substandard guesthouses for budgetarily challenged twent
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