Gallery: Thailand's blinged out tourist buses

In Thailand bling is in. Even the country?s coach owners are ordering lavish custom paint jobs on their tourist buses, before finishing them off with rows of floodlights, shiny reflectors and external speakers that turn some into large, colorful, mobile discotheques.

The town of Bang Len in the central Thailand province of Nakhon Pathom, about 50 kilometers west of Bangkok, is one of two coach-building centers in the country, with dozens of large and small factories turning out tourist coaches in response to the country?s burgeoning demand. The majority of Bang Len?s bus building companies trace their origins and links back to one family, with all members using the ?Meeseang? (Have Light) name, followed by additional family identifying words tacked on the end.

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