This is the story of a beautiful Northern Princess who won the heart of a great Siamese King. A story of the Lanna Kingdom facing an identity crisis in the last decades of its independence, saved in part by the efforts of a remarkable women. And this is the story of an understated museum and [...]
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 [...]
Learning how to scuba dive is possible year round in Thailand and there are many places where you can gain PADI certification. NAUI and SSI certifications are also available but rare.
If you are just starting out, you might want to try the easier diving off the east coast of Thailand, at Koh Tao, Koh Samui, [...]
Imagine if your life as an administrator in the tropical colonial outpost of Singapore was abruptly turned upside down by an invading Imperial army. Imagine being hearded onto cattle trucks and railed more than 2000kms North to a steamy jungle just as the rainy season was setting in. Here you would then become forced labour, [...]
Thailand is more than Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket and Chiang Mai. In fact, there are a great many fascinating out-of-the-way places that regular visitors know and love, which you might like to consider adding to your itinerary when you’re planning your next trip to Thailand.
About 260 km outside Bangkok, the ancient city of Nakhon Ratchasima, also [...]
One of the most intriguing and colourful items on any Northern Thailand tourist brochure is the attraction of the region’s hill tribes. Their distinctive traditional dress and bizarre headdress can be seen splashed all over postcards, and tour buses and trekking groups routinely troop through their villages. Photos are taken, a few pieces of their [...]
So you’ve been in Bangkok before and you assume you’ve seen the city’s best sights, tried every spicy dish and enthusiastically shopped. But have you also joined the pre-dawn aerobic lessons at Lumpini Park, played an energy-consuming game of takraw with the locals, had fun on a holiday which you even never heard of, absorbed [...]
Late in the afternoon, as the travellers rose from their afternoon slumbers and the heat dissipated I sat beside the small Pai river while it quietly gushes through Northern Thailand’s most chilled out destination, and reflected on a week of doing nothing but relaxing.
As the sound of Tracy Chapman softly drifted over from the nearby [...]
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