When I went to Ubon last week to update my nightlife guide there, I thought why not check out the neighboring Sisaket province for a few days? So I took the train from Ubon to Sisaket at noon just 1 hour and walked to the hotel I had booked on Agoda just a few hours earlier β the Boonsiri Boutique Hotel that has bright and tidy double rooms for only Baht per night.
That afternoon I went to a massage salon and luckily the lady there offered me a ride to the popular Chaloem Phrakiat Park, which was further out of the center than I first expected almost 5km from my hotel. And then one of these Thailand-only miracles happened: A local girl standing nearby overheard our conversation and offered to talk to the driver with me.
I said no, not yet β do you want to go there together? Well, long story short, she took me not only to two temples that afternoon on her bike, but also showed me all the different nightlife spots in town over the next two days β not only the places around the railway station in downtown, but also the Thai bars near the university that only few foreigners know about.
There are a few bars in downtown Sisaket, and especially the atmospheric outdoor bars in front of the railway station are popular among people of all ages. The biggest concentration of bars in town can be found along Thepha Road near the Rajabhat University.
There are about a dozen different bars, and I even saw one place with sexy hostesses sitting and drinking with the male customers. Most of these bars have live music, and sometimes also a pool table. Check out my video down below in one of these places. There are two very popular night clubs in Sisaket.
