BACKPACKER GHETTO: STREET MASSAGE, LAUGHING GAS AND CHEAP BEER ON TAP FEATURE IN PHOTO TOUR OF BANGKOK

An photographer who previously documented Cardiff's no-holds-barred nightlife has turned his attentions to the nocturnal hustle-and-bustle of Bangkok.

With a beer bottle in one hand and a camera in the other, photographer Maciej Dakowicz captured the highs and lows of revellers in Bangkok's 'backpacker ghetto'. 

Despite its wild and rowdy reputation, the images appear relatively tame to big cities in the UK - where hordes of party-goers hit the streets every weekend.

Maciej, who took the photos on visits between 2012 and 2015, said: 'My favourite photo is that of a young couple at a restaurant table.

'The man looks like he has just passed out and there is a bill on the table - maybe he fainted seeing the sum on the bill?

'There are people around looking at each other in a strange way and then there is these two tourists smiling to the camera in the background, giving the image an extra weird twist. It's a strange scene.

'People are friendly, they are having fun and don't really mind being photographed by just another tourist.

'Often they are too busy to notice me and my camera.'