Delayed Start (Continued)

While in Thailand I went to a Muay Thai fight.  When rushing to get in a taxi to the fight someone somehow pick pocketed my phone.  Anyhow, I soon forgot about it as everyone felt so bad for my misfortune they felt it necessary to buy me drinks all night.  With a few Tigers (Thai beer) in me, and the first knee to chin knock out in a fight, I was increasingly into the fights.  The fighters ranged from young 16 & 17 year olds in the 100 lb weight class and built up as the night went on to the older 190 lb fighters.  After a while of being harassed in Thai, we discovered we had mistakenly sat in the betting only section.  A one-toothed local kept insisting on betting $1000 Baat ($30 US) on the man in the blue shorts.  Unaware of who was the better fighter or really anything around me, I agreed to bet him $200 Baat ($6).  Randomly the red-shorted fighter got what seemed to be a knock out. He surprisingly paid me and walked away.  Then out of nowhere the blue fighter muay thaid the fuck out of his opponent and my celebrations were quickly ended with the one-toothed man returning to demand his winnings.

From the arena we jumped on tuk-tuks/rickshaws and headed east across the city to the infamous Patpong district (red light district). These motorcycle cars and their drivers were beyond reckless, dangerously weaving in and out of Bangkok's busy night traffic.  After this we insisted on taking them everywhere.  As soon as we arrived we were greeted with calls of "PING PONG SHOW 100 BAAT & FREE DRINK."  Exactly what we had come for.  We decided to follow a man in a silk leopard skin shirt.  He took us up a set of stairs and into "the show."  

 {more to come}

Muay Thai!

One-toothed gambler

Tuk-Tuk Ride

Here are some more pictures to help sum up the rest of the trip.

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This Man almost led us to our death {Ping Pong Show}

            Unfortunately while on this trip I missed the first level 8 typhoon to hit HK since we arrived, Typhoon Nuri.  This is the article from the day after that I picked up from our hotel in Malaysia.  The photograph was taken directly past the metro station down the street from where I am living.  Im excited to experience the next one, apparently they are the most frequent during September.  (Thanks for the heads up on the typhoon dashboard warning Colton)