repost: Weekend in Chachoengsao
31.08.-01.09.2013
originally posted here (on three forums in identical
form):
http://gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6019&start=0
http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/aug-weekend-chachoengsao-2013-t29585.html
http://www.gaythailand.com/forums/topic/9142-weekend-in-chachoengsao-3108-01092013/
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comments in italic and links to photobucket replaced by uploading the pictures
directly.
Spoiler: no sex, no drama, no drugs, no
trannies, everything runs roughly according to my plans.
Tourism (Wat Saman Rattanaram (Ganesha statue) (วัดสมานรัตนาราม), Wat Chin Pracha Samoson (Wat Leng Hok Yi) (วัดจีนประชาสโมสร วัดเล่งฮกยี่), Wat Sothon Wararam Woraviharn (Wat Hong) (วัดโสธรวรารามวรวิหาร), World Sand Sculpture exhibition), Nightlife, ChristianPFC tries so change according to advice given in “Almost there (getting laid locally)”
There
are some popular markets in Chachoengsao province, one was covered
recently (2013 on the gay forums by a
member), but they are of little interest to
me.
Chachoengsao (ฉะเชิงเทรา also
known as Paet Rio (Paed Riu, 8rio (paed=8)) แปดริ้ว, province east of Bangkok). I will
abbreviate it as CCS. On my trip I saw less than 10 Farang in two
days.
I have
an acquaintance from Camfrog in Chachoengsao, whom I wanted to meet on Sunday,
his day off. We did not meet, but after four years of dating Thai boys I know
that they have problems with space-time coordination and planed accordingly.
This is the tipping point: now I can go to any province for weekend trips
without needing to know anyone there (so far, I always needed a peg to go
somewhere).
Preparation for this trip was
just a few hours reading on the internet and saving webpages downloaded there on
my mobile phone, and taking pictures of the relevant pages in tourist guides
with my mobile phone for reference (so I don’t have to carry the whole book).
Everything else by asking locals.
My
reputation as a cheapskate whoremonger has not yet reached Chachoengsao, so I
could make a fresh start there. (But a friend who comes from CCS messaged me
just hours after I posted a picture on facebook.)
Friday,
30.08.2013
Take
van from Ekkamai bus station (no big buses, but there seem to be big buses from
Mor Chit). Slow traffic along On Nut, and the van stops at the bus center at the
airport! If I had known before, I could have gotten directly to the airport,
faster and cheaper than via Ekkamai.
My
friend cannot have guests, so I need a hotel. I didn’t make any plans, just
asked a tuk-tuk driver at the bus station if he knows a hotel in walking
distance to the railway station. I ended in Yenjit Bungalow. I later found out
that they are listed in
agoda: http://www.agoda.com/asia/thailand/chachoengsao/yenjit_bungalow_and_resort.htmlThe
price on agoda is cheaper, but after taxes it’s the same as the walk-in
rate (600 Baht per night). It’s located at the
end of an alley, over 100 m from the main road, and the sign at the main road is
only in Thai. Most Thais I talked with in CCS have heard of
it.
If you
come by car, they have bungalows for drive-in as
well:
The
owner (?) speaks good English and helped me to find public transport. Wifi is
free, fast (tested with videos on youtube, no problem) and straightforward
(password is on the key tag; I just tried with the strongest network and it
worked).
I call
my friend, he cannot meet me on Friday or Saturday evening after work, only on
Sunday. It’s too early to go to bed. I go to Suan Somdet Phra Sri Nagarindra Park (สวนสมเด็จพระศรีนครินทร์). Unlike most parks in Bangkok, it is
open all time. There are groups of boys and girls out drinking and listening to
music and driving around on their motorbikes. Boys who drive past on a motorbike
smile at me or say hello. It’s ghetto style: screeching tyres, incomplete
combustion (dark exhaust fumes), exhaust modified to make it louder, cars that
are a driving discotheque. Quite different from
Bangkok!
Making
contact is easy, you just have to walk past and there is a 50% chance someone
will say hello, smile or even invite you for a drink. And if there is a cute boy
who doesn’t notice me, I just ask for the way and see where this leads. On the
trip I spoke to more than 50 Thais, several of them my type. After about 1 hour
in the park, I proceed to the river shore. Again groups of boys and
girls.
I want
to go home to sleep, by chance my way leads past the biggest nightclub, Dome.
What I see outside is promising. I go in (23:55, purchase of one drink – in my
case Beer Singha for 100 Baht – is compulsory). It is large, about thrice the
size of DJ station or NAB. About half full, which allows easy roaming, as I like
it. I spot a table with cute boys and while I still think how to find an excuse
how to join the, one of them raises his glass to me. I join them and will stay
there the rest of the night. The cutest boy is opposite. Again no need to look
for a way to get next to him, it happens after some shifts. It is too loud to
exchange more than a few sentences. I have my earplugs in. Later, they ask me if
I could pay for another bucket of ice (80 Baht), which I do (and order a bowl of
crisps for 50 Baht as well). I even okayed the purchase of another bottle of
whisky (220 Baht?), but the order was never placed. How do I get the cute boy
into my room? By the time (2:30 am) I have come up with an idea (ask him if he
has a motorcycle and can drive me back), they are leaving. I stay till closing
time (3am), some customers are so drunk, they have to be carried out. Plenty of
broken glass and spoiled drinks on the floor.
I go
home alone. Nonetheless, an interesting new experience, and no lack of cute boys
and social interaction. It seems there is no age restriction in the disco. About
5% of the customers are under 18 years old (my estimation, I asked just one and
he is 17). Unfortunately, smoking is allowed. Clothes smell of smoke when you
come back home, and I got a burn on my finger from someone else’s cigarette. No
burn holes in my clothes so far. Aircon is insufficient, I think it was well
above 25 C inside.
Summary: there are many cute
boys in the park, along the river and in the disco. Getting into contact is
easy. Now I just need a way to take them to my room, be it for free or for pay.
One constraint is that they come by motorbike, with two or three on each
motorbike. How can I separate the cute one to go to my place on motorbike? Do
these boys lend their motorbike to friends?
Saturday
31.08.2013
The
Ganesha temple (the world’s largest Ganesha in happy reclining posture) is out
of town, about 10 km to the east on an island in the Bang Pakong river. I walk
to the bus station (with stop at the railway station, due to rain). There are a
song thaew from the bus station, it takes 30 minutes and costs 30 Baht. (I had
to ask where the song thaew leave, there are no signs.) I would estimate the
size similar to that in Nakhon Nayok, but Nakhon Nayok has two statues. In CCS
it’s a whole complex: Ganesha, Guan Im, another statue under construction,
market, restaurants, it was much busier than in Nakhon Nayok. Boat rides around
the island are available for 300 Baht per boat (6 people). Website (in Thai):
http://www.watsaman.org/
A
large market and many restaurants are in the temple
complex.
Betel
nut sold at the market:
The
largest Rahu statue in Thailand: (that's what the sign says,
there are statues of similar size elsewhere)
Guan
Im statue:
The
major difference from the Ganesha in Nakhon Nayok (I confused the two on
pictures, before I learnt that there are two of them) is the 32 postitions
around the base:
You
can walk inside the base, there is a shop. Same for the Guan Im
statue.
Ganesha with 108 hands (I didn’t
count, the sign says so)
(พระพิฆเนศ ปางปาฏิหารย์ ๑๐๘กร):
(พระพิฆเนศ ปางปาฏิหารย์ ๑๐๘กร):
I did
not remember where exactly I got off the song thaew, and can’t see any signs of
public transport back to Chachoengsao. So I ask a police officer about transport
back. He calls a colleague who takes me back for free on his motorbnike. Not
exactly back to CCS, but to the Chinese temple with a tall tower (I noticed the
tower on the way to the Ganesha temple and took a picture to ask for details).
Wat Chin Pracha Samoson (Wat Leng Hok Yi) (วัดจีนประชาสโมสร วัดเล่งฮกยี่)
The tower is still under construction:
The temple is about 200 m south of the tower.
About
200 m north of the tower is the Tewasatharn Riew Yiang Tai, maintained by the
Sawang Satthatammasatharn Foundation (เทวสถานวิหาร ริ้วเยี้ยงไท้
มูลนิธิสว่างศรัทธาธรรมสถาน):
I call
my Camfrog acquaintance (after waiting an hour for a reply to my sms) to make a
date for Sunday. He said he will be in Bkk on Sunday and we can meet at Victory
monument. I will show the messages (in Thai) we exchanged on facebook and
elsewhere to Thai friends and ask them if it’s not crystal clear that I was
coming to CCS to meet him there. I learnt the hard way that there can be
misunderstandings and changes and in a Thai boy’s plan at any moment, and plan
accordingly, so I can just shrug this off. Evil forces in the
universe.
At
night, a stroll through the park and along the river. Some boys remember me from
Friday. Now there are only 73 provinces left where I can go for a fresh start
(hook up with boys). A group of boys stand around a car, one of them is cute. I
join them for a chat. They ask me if I like girls, I reveal that I like boys,
everyone takes a step back, like “don’t touch me”, and there is a gap in the
conversation, until one of them continues: “do you like him?”. From this and
from previous similar encounters, I conclude that revealing my sexual
orientation is a roadblock to getting laid (I will elaborate on this in another
post). I ask the cute boy for his name and use this occasion to shake his hand
and tickle his palm with my finger (meaning: I want sex with you). Is this a
good idea and generally understood? Our ways cross later in Dome, but nothing
ensues.
I
enter Dome at 23:35 it is full, difficult to get around. There is a table with
three cute twinks, I join their table, but they don’t show interest in me. Is
this common practice, as a single customer, to simply join a table that has
space left to put your glass or bottle on it? Staff sometimes splits tables,
i.e. move all bottles from two tables onto one to allow a new group of customers
to use the now empty table.
I wish
I had a way to spend more time in the bathroom. Good light and you can get a
glimpse of skin and underwear.
A
fight breaks out elsewhere. Lights go on in that part and staff has problems to
get through to separate the parties and throw them out. On passing my table,
someone tries to grab my empty bottle (probably for use as a weapon), I am quick
and hold it, but I get an angry look.
No
further incidents, go home alone.
To be
continued.
Here: http://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2014/01/weekend-in-chachoengsao-part-2a-general.html and subsequent posts.
Here: http://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2014/01/weekend-in-chachoengsao-part-2a-general.html and subsequent posts.
(full
album of pictures
here: http://s1084.photobucket.com/user/christianpfc/library/Chachoengsao%20Aug%202013)
(Album still accessible on photobucket on 16jul2017, but not long ago photobucket dis-allowed links from other websites.)
Copyright 2013 ChristianPFC
(Album still accessible on photobucket on 16jul2017, but not long ago photobucket dis-allowed links from other websites.)
Copyright 2013 ChristianPFC
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