The ‘Ghost Tower’ in Bangkok attracting thousands of strange tourism lovers

Friday, November 23, 2018

Deserted skyscrapers as well as haunted buildings have become the settings for a new tourism trend that gives travelers an opportunity to explore creepy sites across Asia.

The pastime of urban exploration is attracting tourists to examine potentially dangerous places like the so-called Ghost Tower of Bangkok, Bali’s Haunted Resort and the deserted Dreamland theme park in Nara, Japan.

These haunted sites remain majorly unguarded, allowing adventurous travelers to make easy entry to them as others require explorers to bribe security guards to get inside.

Also known as URBEX, urban exploration involves traversing man-made structures, characteristically the ones which are vacant, with the target to document them via video or still photography, or just to fulfill that adventure craving.

While it’s not an entirely a new activity, its popularity has soared high in recent years on the back of the rise of travel blogging.

Video sharing sites like YouTube have loads of such videos of travel bloggers exploring deserted buildings across the world. These videos have motivated many ordinary tourists, particularly younger travelers, to follow suit and visit the same eerie sites.

I first became conscious of this type of travel trend while living on-and-off in the Thai capital Bangkok over the past five years. Innumerable times I have gone past the infamous Ghost Tower of the city, looked up and seen people scaling this abandoned skyscraper.

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