By Jim Algie
Strange Thailand takes readers off the well-rutted street of vacationer hotspots into the darkest and sexiest hinterlands. Welcome to a twilight area the place travelers turn into infantrymen and cowboys, a black magician courts politicians and movie stars, sacred tortoises mate at the streets of a small city, and Fertility Goddesses are wooed with gigantic phalluses.
In this unusual land, not anything is what it sort of feels: a jail turns into a vacationer charm, a 20-storey robotic is a construction, a guy turns into a good looks queen, a Buddhist temple becomes hell on the earth, a loving spouse is immortalized because the most renowned and ferocious of all phantoms, and a serial killer s corpse is reincarnated as a museum exhibit.
Bizarre Thailand takes an irreverent examine how the profound, profane and albeit really ordinary intertwine with the rhythms and flows of daily Thai existence, reminiscent of the necessary tradition of 1 of Southeast Asia's such a lot fascinating locations.
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