Travel in Thailand from the Charm in Northern Thailand to Islands in South. New Tourism, Culture, Lifestyle and Boutique Travel. Independent Guide to Travel in Thailand.
This week we made an escape from the relentless heats of Thailand’s lower lands, with a stay in Khao Yai, a region not far from Bangkok, famous for its cool mountain climate. An area which has become a year-round retreat for well-heeled city folk, due to its scenic landscapes, and various themed attractions scattered through […]
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To date, through 5 separate road trips in Northern Thailand, we have now covered all 9 northern provinces, and overlapped on a bunch of them as we find new experiences and homestays to explore. And we will never bore of travel in Northern Thailand. But a lot of the time, we were learning on our
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I never considered Chiang Mai to be much of a “foodie” destination in the past, and my intrigue was more for the further-flung borders, where influences of neighbouring Myanmar, Laos and Yunnan share their own interpretations of local Lanna and northern cuisine. But on a more recent visit we found ourselves in Chiang Mai’s ‘Nimman
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We started the day in a cramped wooden hut in Thailand’s Phayao province, waking at 04:10 AM to views over the Thai-Lao borders. We then ended it with unforgettable luxury and prestige on the banks of Chiang Mai’s River Ping. Just another of Thailand’s many fascinating contrasts in travel. For the weekend we would be
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The first thing I do on moving to any new city or destination is to scope out the local area for all my favourite foods. And it is no different this time with our recent move to the Nimman area of Chiang Mai. So over the space of a month we ate out at least
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Our search for Seal Dog began on the fourth of May, 2014, on the gulf shores of Thailand, with a 320km bus journey from Bangkok to the coastal regions of Trat province. A further 40 minute boat crossing then brought us to the island of Koh Chang, situated just a few clicks west of the Cambodian borders.
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I do still feel like a visitor to Bangkok, despite living here, and given the multifaceted and diverse landscapes of the city, I can escape at any time to unfamiliar surroundings. And to thank for this are Bangkok’s boutique and design hotels which will always bring something new and exciting to the city, away from the
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Now the Imperial Hotel and Convention Centre. Dusit would be better known in the luxury, international travel markets these days, but the brand has always had a long homegrown history in Thailand, where it has added a bit of prestige to many of Thailand’s lesser known cityscapes. And we experienced this first-hand recently on our
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While relatively unknown to most visitors to Thailand, Korat is actually the sixth largest city in Thailand, bigger than Chiang Mai, Phuket or Pattaya, and while I won’t pretend it to be the most exciting of Thai cities to explore, it does have one thing going for it. And this is its position, as the “Gateway
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It is often a worry with hotel reviews that we may fail to find more to add to past experiences, almost expecting a copy and paste from past accommodations. Yet here, at Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park, we find the complete opposite, as we are almost overwhelmed by the scale of what the hotel has to offer.
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