Koh Pich stampede - five years on
- Lucky Lucan
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I remember being driven down there the night before in a pick-up truck and parking near the playing fields and then strolling past Sambo's field and on towards Koh Pich. Nothing much going on, some bumpkins wandering about like headless chickens was always the order of the day. I'm not sure what Koh Pich looks like nowadays, because I avoid the place. I can't help associating the whole area with mass evictions and don't feel that sitting next to some third-grade cement copy of a Hellenistic statue really aids that. It's all completely crass. There was nothing to see, which makes it all that bit sadder.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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No, I was warned to stay away that night by a Yuon.rl66 wrote:So basically none of you were there.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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In almost nine years here I have not known a single expat who has gone to riverbanks to watch the WF. Why the fuck would you ?rl66 wrote:So basically none of you were there.
My first and only WF years ago was spent at a rather out of control rooftop party down opposite the titanic. It was the year the Singaporeans ( 7 i think ) drowned when their boat capsized. We got to watch the whole thing.
Later that night I had to fight my way through the puking, pissing mass of rice farmers.
Never again.
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Ok i will change that and say......you do it once and then never ever EVER again.
Far better out in the provinces on the smaller tributaries.
Far better out in the provinces on the smaller tributaries.
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Did you have to pay to enter the island before or after the bridge? It was a paid for/ticket event if i remember correctly??
I always remember in Flores , Indo years ago when i paid for a ship ticket to the Togean islands as what must have been thousands of people got in these tiny boats on the shore and headed out to board the ship.
Fug me when all the boats got to the huge ship it turned into utter chaos. I'd never seen anything like it. Hundreds of people all trying to get up the fragile narrow stairway up the side of the boat at once, people getting crushed, all the screaming, people falling in the sea just so they could get a spot on the packed over crowded floor to sleep on. I guess all those ships were massively over booked.
I stayed on the small boat until the pushing and screaming stopped. It was so un British. God save the Queen...
I always remember in Flores , Indo years ago when i paid for a ship ticket to the Togean islands as what must have been thousands of people got in these tiny boats on the shore and headed out to board the ship.
Fug me when all the boats got to the huge ship it turned into utter chaos. I'd never seen anything like it. Hundreds of people all trying to get up the fragile narrow stairway up the side of the boat at once, people getting crushed, all the screaming, people falling in the sea just so they could get a spot on the packed over crowded floor to sleep on. I guess all those ships were massively over booked.
I stayed on the small boat until the pushing and screaming stopped. It was so un British. God save the Queen...
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
I was at another bridge during that time.
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I didn't have to pay but I used the bigger bridge about 1km south of Nagaworld. I went past naga during the 2008 festival and it was uncomfortably crowded so I never returned. Since the bridge was 2 lanes and the road in front of naga is 8 I'm not surprised they had problems there.spitthedog wrote:Did you have to pay to enter the island before or after the bridge? It was a paid for/ticket event if i remember correctly??
I attended the festival but didn't use that bridge. I've always avoided that area due to the overcrowding I experienced at the first festival I attended in 2008.rl66 wrote:So basically none of you were there.
C'mere c'meye
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I bet the guy who shouted "Tiger" for a laugh feels like a cunt.
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