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Thailand
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The Sukhumvit
Road area is the largest modern tourism district of the
Thai capital and also the area by far most preferred by foreign
residents in Bangkok.
Sukhumvit
Road actually is not just a city street but also the city street's
cross-country extension for more than 400 kilometers along
the eastern seaboard, passing Pattaya and up to Trat
at the Cambodian border.
In Bangkok,
Sukhumvit Road is a long straight 6 to 8-lane road with
only a few major intersections. Except for a few, all side streets
(a side street is called Soi in Thai) are dead-end streets.
While this sounds depressing at the first moment, it's actually
a major advantage of the Sukhumvit Road area as a residential
district. As the side streets are dead-end streets, there
is no passing traffic and in some of the Sois one can live as
quiet as in a small town.
While
the lower Sukhumvit Road between Soi 3 and Soi 21 is rather touristy,
the upper part up to Soi 71 is where many foreign residents
live. Around Soi 33 is an area with an especially good Western
infrastructure, with a large supermarket as well as butchers,
bakers and newsagents, cinemas with English movies and a few good
restaurants.
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