SOUL CITY
How does one come to truly understand a place? Itʼs a question Iʼve mulled over through the all years Iʼve tried to get to grips with Bangkok.
Slightly smaller than Joburg, but with twice as many inhabitants, Bangkok is at once both serenely spiritual and wildly hedonistic. It drips with opulent riches while some parts rot with neglect. Bangkok is sticky street food and pink taxis; bold neon signs and pretty garlands of jasmine buds; it is tuk-tuks, lady-boys and hordes of shoppers; speeding long-tail boats and saffron-cloaked monks. Bangkok is curving waterways and looming concrete buildings; Mondays dressed in