Big Mango

A market soi in Chinatown

A quiet soi in the Muslim quarter

Sure, easy to navigate.  Who could get lost here?

Bangkok. Labyrinthine, amazing, confusing and wonderful Bangkok. There is no pause in the city's heartbeat, which is loud and bright and sharp. No map will tame this tangle of tiny Sois and huge streets. It is a city to be memorized, where addresses are useless and intuition is daunted.

And it feels, always, like home. I fall into Bangkok as if on a screaming roller-coaster, devoid of transition.

The cacophony always welcomes me, comforts me, befuddles me and leaves me wanting more. Es mi barrio.