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AFTER MIDNIGHT town centre purified; bars closed at midnight by provincial governor
HUA HIN THAILAND The recent enforcement of midnight closing times for the bars in central Hua Hin by order of the Prachuap Kiri Khan Provincial Governor has sparked a variety of reactions from those affected, and AWOL has dusted off it’s crystal ball to have a look into a possible future for the town... It’s midnight in the compact former nightlife area of Hua Hin, cleansed in the February 2011 purge by the visionary authorities in Prachuap Kiri Khan. Soi Binthabaht, Poolsuk Road, Soi Selekam, Soi Sarakam, the Night Bazaar and the surrounding streets are deserted, as families and elderly couples have been tucked up in their luxurious hotel rooms for a good hour. The Night Market, once a bustling hub of the town has ceased to exist as it’s former customers now travel to Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket for holidays. The town is finally returning to it’s quaint traditional fishing village charm. A lone policeman rides down the former den of iniquity that was Soi Binthabaht and wonders what has happened to all the people who used to work in the area; the motorcycle taxi riders, the food vendors, the hill tribe wooden frog sellers, the flower sellers, and of course all the bar and other business owners and their staff. As he reaches Poolsuk Road, he glances over at the wall where all the restaurants used to be lined who catered for the tourists. He thinks about the good times he had with all his police colleagues as they engaged in good natured banter, and feels a bit sad that they have now all gone to other police forces as they are no longer needed in Hua Hin. Many of them are now in Cha Am and Khao Takiab as these areas were strangely omitted from the clean up, although with tourist numbers to the area falling, in contrast to other parts of Thailand, he thinks that they won’t be needed there soon either. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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