Trip 03 / Thailand
Sukhumvit Road, Thailand
Highway 3 is one of Thailand’s longest roads – and it tells the story of the nation’s rapid transformation. We hop behind the wheel to see how the country got into gear.
Anyone who has visited Bangkok will know Sukhumvit Road. It’s the Thai capital’s answer to Oxford Street, Orchard Road or Fifth Avenue, all rolled into one. Visitors of every stripe are drawn to this traffic-clogged, six-lane stretch of central Bangkok. But there’s far more than the shopping malls, five-star hotels and hostess bars with questionable names (Spanky’s, we’re looking at you).
In total, Sukhumvit Road rolls east for almost 500km. Highway 3, as it is also called, travels along the Gulf of Thailand through six provinces and alongside…
