Patong Nightlife

Just before sunset the markets start setting up their booths and the bars beign filling up. We walked by this area in the morning on the way to the beach and they must be open 24hours a day because there were people already having a casual morning beer. At nighttime however the atmosphere gets crazier. There are so many people walking the streets and all the street vendors become your friend, or at least that's what they hope. Walking past a market, they yell "Hello my friend!" and they ask where you're from. I'd ask them where they thought i was from and a few people thought that I was Australian. Most of the bars in Patong are open like you see in the pictures. It's just a big area with all these bars and they are all selling the same thing, booze and women. Patong is really fun, but the atmosphere can get old really fast. Definitely the place to go if you are looking for a good time. Oh and I didn't expect the shopping to be what is was there. They have so many knock offs there and most of them looked really good, but I just wasn't interested in spending the money and there was too much to choose from, it was kind of overwhelming.