Doing so can reveal stunning and intriguing and often bizarre spots in the Thai capital.
Many of these remain virtually unknown to outsiders.
Narina Exelby and Mark Eveleigh spent over a year hunting down some of the city’s most captivating secret spots and found many that even the experienced local guides had never heard of.
Readers will discover where people offer bacon and eggs to tiger temple guardians, a temple with a million Buddhas and another temple with elaborate effigies of David Beckham, Donald Duck and Popeye.
There is the chance to find the lair of giant monitor lizards, and to meet a unique community of outlaw flute-players.
There’s the chance to eat a communal vegetarian breakfast with Bangkok’s Sikh community.
Then there’s the traditional Tai pastime of baldy-butting, and the chance to meet a celebrated healer who goes by the name of Madame Breast-slapper.
These are just a very few of the hundreds of tips for discovering Secret Bangkok. Narina Exelby is a freelance writer and editor who, in 2012, swopped stability in Cape Town and 15 years in the international magazine industry for freedom and life on the road.
Mark Eveleigh visited Bangkok in the days when elephants still begged at the roadside bars in the backpacker ghetto around Khao San Road, and when he was able f to hitch-hike from the Golden Triangle to Singapore.
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Email Writer: markeveleigh67@gmail.com
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