Explore Bangkok after dark with ‘Bangkok Midnight City Walk’ this Saturday

You've done the sunrise run club and the golden-hour walking tour, but have you ever wondered what Bangkok looks like at midnight, when most of the city has gone to bed? Is it bright? Is it safe? What sits quietly out of sight until the sun comes up?

Walking tours rank among the capital's favourite weekend habits right now, second only to run clubs. Most start early, before the heat sets in, or wait for the cooler evening. 'Bangkok Midnight City Walk' does neither.

'Film I Trust', an independent film group that stages screenings in all sorts of spaces, runs this one. Everyone meets at midnight and stays out until morning, tracing the stories the capital keeps to itself while the rest of us sleep.

The loop starts at Café Velodome on Phra Sumen Road and takes in Siam Paragon, Lumphini Park, Silom, Bangrak, Talat Noi, Yaowarat, Pak Khlong Talat, Wat Pho and Sanam Luang before circling back to where it began. Along the way you swap notes with strangers, comparing how each neighbourhood reads by day and by night.

Organisers use 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' as the thread that runs through the route, borrowing scenes from it to frame the parts of Bangkok most people never see. It's a neat match. The film tells New York through emotion, class, dreams and the people who live there, and this one does much the same for a city on the other side of the world. Everyone stops for breakfast together as the sky starts to lighten.

'Bangkok Midnight City Walk' takes place this Saturday, August 22. Tickets cost B650 per person and numbers cap at 30 only. Register and find out more at lin.ee/Nl16Vmn.