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The street is only a few hundred meters long but is bustling from 10 am to 2 am. All tourists when coming to Bangkok gather around this street to enjoy the fun and party atmosphere from morning to night with non-stop music.
At 8am, Khaosan is quiet with shops closed and signs in the corners of the steps. The streets are quiet and few people pass by, only the 24/7 shops are open.
At 10am, a few doors were opened with sleepy faces and long yawns of the staff. Very quickly, long tables with souvenirs were set up. Clothing stores hung their clothes on hangers and a few vendors selling fruit juice, pat Thai (a Thai street food), and tangerine juice pushed their carts to their stops on the street.
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| Vibrant and bustling, Khaosan is loved by tourists for its openness and comfort with affordable shops and professional service. |
At 12 noon, the streets were busier with a few customers wandering around looking for food. The shops along the street were all open, tables were set up all over the sidewalks. Bars and cafes had turned on the music, set up chairs on the sidewalk, and were ready to welcome customers.
At 2:00 p.m., guests from the hotels in the small corners of Khaosan flocked out in large numbers. Just a short distance away from the alleys, Khaosan has hundreds of hotels and motels with different prices. Most of them are motels or dormitories with shared bathrooms, and the guests staying in these areas are all young backpackers. Every day, there are guests coming and going with large backpacks on their shoulders. If the motels in Khaosan are full, you can go to the motels right next to it, just across the street, quieter and cheaper.
At 4pm, a few mobile stalls have begun to pour into the street. These are stalls selling affordable clothes that are very popular with foreign visitors. For only about 5 USD (more than 100,000 VND), visitors can immediately have a new shirt or a pretty dress to wear on the street, easy to choose, easy to wear, light luggage. The T-shirts have interesting, healthy, youthful prints, suitable for many styles.
At 6pm, the city lights began to come on, and the signs were also turned on. Now we could see hundreds of large and small signs all over the street. The clothing lines had settled down, fast food carts entered the street, mixing with the gradually increasing flow of pedestrians on the street. Pat Thai carts, fruit carts, scorpion and fried grasshopper carts, and tangerine juice carts were parked on the side of the road. The street was closed to vehicles at both ends, only pedestrians were allowed. Tourist police cars were parked on both sides of the street, ensuring order in this crowded and bustling shopping area with all kinds of skin colors.
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| Stalls selling Pat Thai, a street noodle dish popular with tourists. You can eat the noodles with chicken, eggs or vegetables. Prices range from 20,000 VND to 50,000 VND for a portable meal. |
At 8pm, music was playing from all the bars. The streets were packed with people. Tourists from all over the world flocked to Khaosan after a day of sightseeing. The restaurant staff were busy running errands. The restaurants around Khaosan were also crowded. If you don't like Thai food, you can choose European or other dishes.
At 10pm, the street was bustling with the cries of vendors and customers coming from all directions. Beer was flowing in the shops. Laughter was heard in all languages. Some customers were sitting braiding their hair and painting their nails. The foot massage chairs on the street were already occupied. While drinking fruit juice, they massaged their tired feet and watched the increasing number of people passing by. Some customers bought drinks from the 24/7 shops and sat on the sidewalk enjoying a cold beer in the summer heat.
At midnight, the music still continues on the street. The tattoo lovers have retreated to a shop on the corner. The drinking parties have just begun. People drink, people dance, people sing. If you don't go to the shop, you can sit on the sidewalk corner and chat.
At 2am, the souvenir shops were preparing to close. The garbage collectors were working hard with the large trash bins on the street. There were still a few mobile food carts selling late-night snacks to customers. The last customers of the bar were happily walking home, arm in arm. Some of the guests who had just arrived had not found their rooms yet, with maps in hand.
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| The later it gets at night, the more lively the street becomes with the presence of guests staying in this area or from other hotels across Bangkok. |
At 4am, the shops were closed, only the 24/7 shops were still lit with a few customers buying drinks. Khaosan was asleep after a busy day with two streets selling all kinds of goods, restaurants, hotels and entertainment needs. To start a new day at 10am tomorrow morning with the new customers arriving today.
