“Sawadee ka!”
All visitors to Thailand usually experience a warm welcome from Thai people, and almost always leave with a sense that the Thai are wonderfully hospitable and polite. The Thais are naturally friendly and passive towards strangers, which is one of the chief attractions of the country, and much of it is a result of [...]
Strolling along the busy streets of Silom in downtown Bangkok at night will reveal a city that is alive with lights and laughter. The narrow sidewalks are packed with stalls, turning the whole area into a bustling night market where everything, it seems, is for sale. Two tourists with German accents haggle over [...]
Author: Steven Walters
While you can spend weeks in Thailand without ever seeing a prostitute there are some areas of the City of Angels that are designed with nothing more in mind than the sex tourist. There are also some other places that tend to draw Thai girls who are looking for involvement with a farang [...]
Author: Daniel Millions
Thailand located in South East Asia is a hidden gem for those seeking a vacation destination. Bangkok for instance is popular amongst American’s but there are other places and sights in Thailand to behold. Each region has something new and exciting to offer its visitors. We will be going through some of the [...]
While residents of Chiang Mai are breathing a collective sigh of relief that the Ratchaphruek Royal Flora is now over, developers have keenly noted the windfall some made from the city’s biggest influx of tourists ever. With three million visitors in three months it demonstrated the very real future of this Northern tourist centre, as [...]
Have you ever come face to face with a Heliocopris Dominus? Would you be able to recognise an E. Gracillicornis (flying prehistoric super-insect) from a Dicranocephalus Wallichi (giant scarab). Or how about an A. Horridula (long tailed scorpion)?
Chiang Mai is home to one of Asia’s most unusual museums, one that celebrates all things creepy crawly. [...]
There’s two things Bangkok is most famous for; its go go bars and its traffic congestion. Both are a chronic problem that the city administrators have been trying to tackle for years without much success, and the locals simply do as locals do in Thailand and learn to put up with and ignore it. But [...]
People are willing to risk their lives for it, wars have been fought over its trade and civil wars have been perpetuated for its profit. Opium is perhaps the world’s oldest narcotic, but it has also long been associated with medicinal use and today is responsible for one of Northern Thailand’s best known tourist attractions [...]
Once a quiet residential zone just outside of the Grand Palace area, Khao San road in Bangkok’s Banglampu district, is now an exceedingly well established tourist mecca that attracts backpacking travellers from across the globe.
Those who have not visited invariably know where it is and at least one person who has been there. The [...]
