2Bangkok.com secrets: Inside Fort Mahakan

2Bangkok.com secrets: Inside Fort Mahakan
Including the mysterious man in the fort...

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Right: Gate to the fort from street level

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Looking towards Phan Fa Bridge

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Above: Stairs to the upper level of the tower. The red slats are the underside of the tower roof. The rows of tile on the roof hang on the slats.

Right: Locked doors to the inside of the tower.

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The man in the tower

Ron notes: I could just catch a glimpse of a man in Muay Thai trunks practicing Muay Thai moves inside the tower. It was strange because the door to the tower seemed to be padlocked from the outside. I knocked on the door to get his attention, but he did not seem to hear me.
I tried to take a photo of the man through the crack in the door as he walked back and forth, but each time it seemed I could not capture his image on film. Thinking I must be going crazy, I went outside and waited a long time until the man peeked out from the tower. The photo on the right is a highly lightened detail of the image on the left to show the man. Strangely enough, the man had each of his eyebrows painted red.

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Looking out over Phan Fa Bridge