Bangla Road

This guide to Bangla Road in Patong starts with a small zoo that stood here in 1994 and traces the creek and market path the road was named for, long before Western tourists began arriving in the late 1980s. You'll hear about the bamboo bars and the single go-go bar, Suzy Wong's, that served the whole strip in its early days, and how the road transformed within a few decades into a nightly-closed strip of neon and bass. Listen for the one thread that still connects tonight's storm of light back to that quiet stream-bed.