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Thai Sabai Sabai Cocktail
This particular cocktail is made with Mekhong Thai spirit, but if you want to try your hand at making it and don’t have Mekhong to hand you can always experiment with other spirits like gin, bourbon or rum. The recipe in the picture is slightly different to that on the (which is the recipe I’ve use
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Songkran Water Festival
Next week (April 13-15) is the Songkran Water Festival in Thailand. It’s the major holiday of the year in Thailand and it’s a Songkran tradition to wear colourful shirts and douse each other with water. This little girl in Chiang Mai was clearly enjoying the sanuk during the 2008 Songkr
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Songkran Sand Pagodas
There are many ceremonies and customs associated with Songkran, Thailand’s traditional New Year Festival. Although the festival is most well-known for the water-throwing that goes on in the streets, visitors to Thailand during Songkran may also notice mounds of sand within temple grounds. Thes
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Water, Water, Everywhere . . . Songkran Photos
It’s that time of year in Thailand when water fills the air and everybody gets very wet as part of the Songkran Festival which welcomes in the traditional Thai New Year. The custom of pouring water is a symbolic way of cleansing all the bad luck and wrongdoing of the previous year and providin
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Victory Monument, Bangkok
Victory Monument might not be on the main Bangkok tourist trail, but it is in an important area for transport connections in and around the Thai capital. The stone obelisk itself isn’t the most striking of Bangkok’s landmarks and it’s difficult to get close-up to anyway because it forms part of a ve
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Ancient Siam Park (Muang Boran Ancient City), Bangkok
If you are
Photo credit (Madeaw)
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Do I Need a Travel Vaccination for Japanese Encephalitis?
Culex mosquitoJapanese encephalitis (JE) does occur in Thailand. However, for the vast majority of visitors it isn’t a significant risk and medical practitioners will probably say you will not require to be vaccinated against JE for a visit to Thailand. If you are visiting rural border areas of Thai
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Mind Your Feet
When it comes to Thailand do’s and don’ts, most guidebooks and travel guides will warn you not to point with your feet whilst you are in Thailand. This might seem like strange advice; after all, how often do you point at anything with your feet? And what is the big deal with the feet anyway?
In Tha
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Toytown Thailand
This is one of the coolest videos I’ve seen in ages and gives a view of Thailand unlike any I’ve ever seen before. The incredibly clever compilation titled, Toy Thailand, was produced by Joerg Daiber and was filmed on location at various spots in Thailand including Bangkok, Phuket and Kr
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Top 10 Things to See and Do in Bangkok
Bangkok has a host of sights and attractions and any ‘best of Bangkok list’ is always going to be subject to individual taste and opinion. I’ve listed below some personal highlights of Thailand’s capital city that I’ve enjoyed by myself or with family. The list is in no particular order,
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For Ever England in Ko Lanta
This is Thailand (T.I.T.) is a phrase sometimes used by expats or long-term visitors when talking about this unique country. Over the years, I’ve learnt for myself that nothing should surprise me about Thailand or the things I see or experience in my adopted homeland. Every now and again though, eve
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Friday Photos: Thailand Flowers
If you ask people what they associate with Thailand they are more likely to say beaches and tropical islands than they are flowers. Nevertheless, flowers are very much a part of everyday life in Thailand. Flower garlands can be seen in most taxi cabs and buses and at most statues and memorials as we
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Laundry in Thailand
If you are travelling in Thailand you have a number of options available to you for getting your laundry done and your clothes cleaned. No matter where you are staying in Thailand, be it a budget guest-house or a luxury hotel, there will almost certainly be some type of in-house laundry service avai
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Reclining Buddha, Wat Lokayasutharam, Ayutthaya
The most striking feature at Wat Lokayasutharam in Ayutthaya is the giant reclining Buddha known as Phra Buddhasaiyart. At 37 meters long and 8 meters high, this reclining Buddha figure towers over the devotees who come here to make offerings.
The head is resting on a lotus and at the opposite end
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Hotel Review: Heart Inn, Ko Lanta
On a recent visit to Ko Lanta I wanted to stay for a few nights in Sala Dan, the main town on the island and the location of the port where most boats arrive and depart Ko Lanta. The Heart Inn is a budget hotel, but it’s pleasant enough and has a good location.
Rooms
The Heart Inn is a low-ris
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Bangkok: Chao Phraya River Piers & Boat Routes
The Chao Phraya River can be a great way to travel in Bangkok, but the system of boats and their different coloured flags can appear confusing for a first-time visitor. This guide should help you out and many visitors to Bangkok quickly discover that the river boat service can be a very convenient (
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Maow the Temple Cat
This little Siamese cat was perched on a stone pedestal at an old temple in Chiang Mai when I took this photo. Stray cats and dogs often find their way to temples where Buddhist monks will feed them and this cat certainly looked well-cared for and content. I’ve no idea whether this particular
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Stone Elephants at Doi Inthanon
Elephants are one of the most endearing images of Thailand and if they happen to be narak too, then it’s a very Thai combination. I snapped these two stone elephants at a landscaped garden at Doi Inthanon in Chiang Mai province.
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Visakha Bucha Day in Photos
Today was Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand, the most important Buddhist holiday of the year which commemorates three defining events in the life of the Lord Buddha which all took place on the Visakha full-moon day: he was born, 35 years later he achieved enlightenment and 45 years after enlightenment h
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Nam Keng in Your Beer
Like many people around the world, some Thai people are partial to a beer or two. But unlike most other countries that I’ve visited, in Thailand the beer will often be accompanied by ice . For visitors from a different culture it might seem a strange way to drink your beer, but it can be very refres
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