Ladyboys at Pad Pang

I took care of small chores like emailing and mailing stuff to family and friends. Even got a manicure and pedicure for the grand total of 200 baht ($5.00). It would have cost me about way more in the States.

I had lunch at My House Guest House and watched the road being repaved. It’s amazing how it gets done as the workers have no modern tools, they use picks, shovels, spades and if they’re lucky cement mixers, otherwise they mix cement by hand. Both men and women work at the repaving. It’s hot, heavy, noisy and dusty work. Yet most of them wear long pants, long-sleeved shirts, scarves around their heads topped with hats and gloves. With the heat and humidity of the day I imagine it must be very hot and sweltering work.

Yet it’s amazing to see how quickly they move through an area, digging out the old and repaving with the bright new terracotta colored tiles.

That evening Jeff and I headed out to the Phad Pong Red Light district and Gay area. First we stopped off in O’Reilly’s pub for a burger and fries for Jeff. It was way expensive but a taste of Western food on occasion is pretty nice.

Afterwards we found one of the best streets for bars serving food and drink. Of course it’s the Gay street. As we entered it began to drizzle rain so we ducked into The Balcony bar for a drink. Just as well once we sat down the real thunderstorm and torrential rain began. It was a great place to sit and wait it out. The waiters all had red T-shirts on for happy hour and in soliciting customers off the street used enormous umbrellas to escort them. Each bar boy one had his/her nickname on the T-shirt. Nicknames tend to be Western. Anyone of them could have been either a girl or a boy. They all definitely had the air of ladyboys about them.

Once it stopped raining we continued through the night markets looking for one of the ladyboy clubs. Castle King III was specifically ladyboys, stopping in for one drink, I felt very awkward as a white Caucasian woman. Most of the clientele were Japanese businessmen, each having 2 or 3 ladyboys hanging onto their arm.

It was getting late so after the Ladyboy club we took a taxi back to the hotel.