Bangkok is on the international media highlight recently. Not because for its beautiful city and gorgoeus nightlife, but for a travel warning. Many countries had warned their people not to visit Bangkok. Bangkok is dangerous, a big riots happened after a protest from Red Shirt against the government. About ten thousands of Red Shirt protesters have gathered outside the army barracks in Bangkok where Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is holed up, demanding his resignation.
Fortunately, the riots ended with peace on each other side. Yes, the violent protests in Bangkok ended on 21st May 2010. And now it is the time to build up this beautiful city. While the threat of further protests still remains, it appears that for the time being Bangkok has started to return to normal. It is worth remembering that in Southern Thailand in the provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla there is still a threat of insurgency. Luckily this is away from most tourist areas but it is advisable to speak to your travel agent just to be careful.
If you still don’t dare going to Bangkok, let’s consider another places in Thailand such as Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai, Krabi, Phuket, and so more. Thailand is not just one Bangkok.
Bangkok Tourism today. To Go Bangkok or not go ?
Many tourist had canceled their flight trip to Bangkok or Thailand cities. Some are reroute to another destination inside South East Asia such as Malaysia and Indonesia. Some are choose to refund their ticket. It is reasonable for tourist to avoid Bangkok, even today Bangkok has began to recover from the bloody riots protest.
The Australian government had issued its highest travel warning, Bangkok had a night-time curfew and thousands of people had cancelled their flights.
Now, actually in Bangkok, he curfew had just lifted and the Red Shirt anti-government protesters gone home. Thailand had begun a new campaign to woo back tourists after losing up to $US2.2 billion in tourism revenue during the crisis, which had begun in March and had left nearly 90 people dead.
Many tourist now had arrived at the tourist centre of Khoa San Road district and noticed the area was moderately busy. Every few minutes you can saw a backpacker walking around. So not everyone had cancelled their flights. But some hostel, which was considered to be popular, was only about 20 per cent occupied.
“It got busy from today,” said Rao, one of the hostel workers. “But some hotels have only one guest.”
Some of them had postponed their visit to Bangkok and had gone to other parts of the country until the curfew lifted.
“Last time I came here it was 24-hour party, party, party,” said a Norwegian girl of the street where bars are open until late and street vendors spruik everything from “ping-pong” shows to pirated DVDs, to fake drivers’ licences to women’s clothing.
“At least it’s not dead like it was last night,” said a friendly Israeli backpacker.
Let’s Visit Bangkok. It is safe
Many airlines now are tend to give a big discount for a direct flight to Bangkok. Let’s say the low fare airlines, Airasia, give a free seat to Bangkok. Many hotels and travel service are doing the same thing. Bangkok is not that bad actually, there are still many things to see. So let’s visit Bangkok again.
Bangkok Bus Hijacked
Bangkok Days after riot
Bangkok Red Shirts Protest Riots. 52 killed, over 400 injured in Bangkok riots
Bangkok Red Shirts Protest Riots
Red Shirts march to Lumpini Park & Silom Road, 6 April 2010
