New Year 2015 Patong Beach and Bangla Road Phuket Thailand

Phuket Patong Beach New Year 2015. Same procedure as every year. No stages with DJs at the beach this year due to the martial law. Still - massive crowd. For my opinion too many people on the Bangla Rd. We prefered to get out of the mass and took a few beers in a bar. Most of the people were not aware of the danger. Later I read in the news, that 36 people died and many were injured in a stampede at New Years Eve. Good thing that Patong was lucky and nothing like this happened. Other than that, everything w