{"id":2365,"date":"2015-05-12T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T08:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2015-05-12T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:00:00","slug":"bangkok-city-never-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2365-bangkok-city-never-sleeps","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok, the city that never sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides Big Mango, City of Angels (partial translation of its\u00a0name), <strong>Bangkok is also known as the city that never sleeps<\/strong> and it is true, the Thai capital is in some places almost as busy or even more\u00a0during\u00a0the night than during the day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6125\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6125 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wat-phra-keo-by-night1-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"Bangkok\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At night, Bangkok his completly different<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>In Bangkok you can\u00a0find a 7 Eleven open at\u00a0every time\u00a0day and night<\/strong>. At night you will find traffic jams too, street merchants, roaring tuk-tuks &#8230; And even if it is true that between 3am and 6am, it&#8217;s quieter, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/cities\/bangkok\">Bangkok<\/a> never sleeps !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07MUksGqGoo?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The sun sets early in Bangkok (6pm to 7pm\u00a0depending on time of year). After dark, come new players: the street restaurants, merchants in the evening markets, night markets, bars fill up with customers, massages chairs settle in the street like\u00a0in Banglamphu, pretty young girls who wait for the bus but never take the bus and the some of them\u00a0are not really girls arrive on the streets of some areas, Volkswagen minivans transformed into lounge bar park and set up their tables in the street&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6126\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6126 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bangkok-la-nuit-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Bangkok\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a lot of traffic in Bangkok even by night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is always animation in the Thai capital. It&#8217;s just not the same people who make the animation during the\u00a0day and during the night. <strong>Bangkok has two faces, one for the\u00a0day and another one at night which is a\u00a0little more vibrant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6127\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6127 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bangkok-nightlife-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Bangkok\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bangkok is also known for its vibrant nightlife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the city is tumultuous, noisy, always in turmoil, there are\u00a0little quieter areas, where you\u00a0almost feel like in a small village while still being in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>Bangkok\u00a0permanent agitation can be confusing or even tiring for who arrives in Bangkok for the first time. Some hate Bangkok, others love it, but the City of Angels can not be ignored&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides Big Mango, City of Angels (partial translation of its\u00a0name), Bangkok is also known as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}