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There’s a wild side to Bangkok, the one that you see on
Locked Up Abroad.
Welcome to Phra
Arthit. Located off of Pier 13, past the touristy temples, way past the Grand Palace–approximately one
stop short of the Cambodian border– it’s or full of hostels where good hygiene
is optional and a nest of mangled dreadlocks is a must. Prha Arthit is a humid hybrid of Amsterdam and
Bangkok. Sex, drugs and cool t-shirts.
And slot machines. Wait! That’s a
pay phone!
We walked around and parked our bums at one of the Bang-bistros
for a cool Chang, trying to guess who would be mule-ing what. We bet money that the guy with the pasty white
legs was trying to hustle some sun block.
Then, a young girl from the Midwest sat next to us, her
body being a human passport stamped with tattoos from different worldly
adventures.
She worked as a baggage handler for a major airline.
My imagination took off, thinking that she was on a
Bangkok holiday for things other than a colonoscopy. She was probably employing
her knowledge working the security scanners to transport contraband into the Midwest.
She’d be sinking heroin packets into her
shampoo bottle. Strapping baby crocodiles around her ankles.
Hiding durian in
her carry-on.
I studied her face in case I’d ever see her on a future
episode of Locked
Up Abroad.
That would be better than ending up at the Bangkok
Hilton, the nickname of the bang kwang central prison
that drug smugglers and people who
steal hotel towels go to.
They don’t put free mints on your pillows. They serve you
recipes from this cook book…
The living conditions are notorious. Rats the size
of dogs. Insects the size of rats. And
the real scary thing: no wifi access. People who have life time reservations at
the Bangkok Hilton rely on donations from loved ones to buy food from the
prison canteen so they don’t end up looking like this unfortunate tourist.
Jeff and I left Amsterkok and returned to our hotel.
We cooled off in the pool then ate expensive poo-free
snacks from our mini bar.