Excerpts from The Believer: Sacrifice Zone: Pattaya

Excerpts from The Believer: Sacrifice Zone: Pattaya

“In this human-made paradise, entertainment reigned supreme, and all forms of leisure had their whispered, rum-breathed price.” - - -A semi-regular guest column about regularly ignored places - - -Each year, as many as twenty-five million people visit the sacrificial landscape of Pattaya, Thailand. If visitors don’t arrive by air, then they likely take the eight-lane motorway that zips them along the eastern Thai seaboard from Bangkok to the sho…