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The ‘Real Thai Experience’ and All That Comes With It – Thailand
Perhaps it was successful marketing as the “land of smiles” that first attracted me to Thailand, or maybe the intriguing and mysterious culture- whatever it was Thailand seemed to me to be the ideal introduction to Asia. I took a gap year before university to travel and explore the
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Misery in Bangkok – Chatachuk and Banglamphu – Bangkok, Thailand
Misery in Bangkok – Chatuchak and Banglamphu
Bangkok, Thailand
Vignettes from Bangkok
Air Asia ad picked on flight from Phnon Penh to BangkokOK, so we finally had to bid goodbye to Cambodia with a heavy heart. We got onto FD 3613, a fabulous free-seating Air Asia flight (“Unbelievab
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Bangkok Blues – Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok Blues
Bangkok, Thailand
To rephrase a catchy pop song from the 1980s, “One night in Bangkok” makes a hard man…well, hard. But a massage in Southeast Asia’s number-one sin city doesn’t always have to be a red-light affair. Away from the neon-lit strip joints
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Morning walk on Silom – Bangkok, Thailand
Morning Walk on Silom
Bangkok, Thailand
I left the Sukhothai hotel yesterday to buy some glasses for mum. Better vision in Silom. Around £420 for 3 pairs, including some snazzy vari-focals.
A lot of people are wearing yellow at the moment. It’s a king thing. He’s in hospital,
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A Thai Tour Of The Simolan and Surin Islands – Thailand
A Thai Tour Of The Simolan and Surin Islands
Simolan Islands, Thailand
After being in Thailand a little over a week, my travel mate and I are meeting up with another friend and his Thai girlfriend in Bangkok. Monica lives in Lat Phrao, which is an area west of Mo Chit, the northern bus terminal
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Wat Pho in Bangkok – Bangkok, Thailand
Wat Pho in Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand
What should we visit in Bangkok?
It’s a truly great city. Quite clean for the most part, but turn a corner and there’ll be this amazingly filthy canal, absolutely black, stinking to high heaven. Otherwise there are quite a few waterways and plent
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Coping with Thailand’s Tightened Visa Regulations
Coping with Thailand's Tightened Visa Regulations
Thailand
Thailand Temple
It is the end of an era in Thailand. Political changes occur rapidly in SE Asia. Nowhere is that more evident than inside the Land of Smiles. In the wake of the John Karr/JonBenet Ramsey fiasco, Thail
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Packing Strategies for the Coup Near You – Chiang Mai, Thailand
Thailand's Unrest: Packing Strategies for the Coup Near You
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Calm on the streets of Thailand
A funny thing happened on the way to my closet. This unforgettable journey from my shower confirmed an age-old theory: a lot can happen in fifteen feet.
One night earlier I'
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Diving in Koh Phi Phi – Thailand, Asia
Sweat-drenched from the heat of the sun that recently broke through the horizon, I crawled onto a small passenger plane heading for Chaing Mai, Thailand. Drained from the effects of the sun and coupled with lack of sleep, I sank into seat 4B on the air-conditioned plane, and drifted into an unc
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Thailand’s Yellow-Ribbon Coup – Chiang Mai, Thailand, SE Asia
Do not adjust the color on your television. There are no smudges on your screen. What you saw on the news was not an illusion. When the Thai Military stages a coup, they do it with style and panache. It’s true! Their colorful fashion sense may actually be the reason no shots were fired during t
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Chiang Mai, Thailand’s Temple of the Dogs – Thailand, SE Asia
Into the Arms of Buddha
It was 5:00 p.m. and I was stalking an angel on temple grounds. As the rain started, I wondered if she would show herself at all. Chiang Mai’s rain patterns are directly correlated with the contents of my purse. The resulting meteorological phenomena means the rain could
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Volunteer Teaching in Thailand – Thailand, Asia
Flying in winter from London straight into Bangkok is something of a shock to your average Englishman. I was lying in a hotel room after a first day exploring, feeling tired and far, far hotter than I'm accustomed to. I admit to thinking that I might have made a mistake in deciding to spend
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Thailand: No More Alcohol Sales to Those Under 25 – Thailand, SE Asia
The party may be all but over for young adults visiting Thailand. Ironically, as the center of the kingdom floods, the nation as a whole is drying up. How will travelers respond?
"Health authorities have stepped up measures to curb alcohol consumption among youth by moving the minimum leg
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A Nation Without Hope – Cambodia, Asia
Before I came here, I knew that genocide wasn’t right. But as I stood in front of the S-21 prison in Cambodia, my hair stood on edge, my heart beat a little faster, and I knew that it was far worse than just not right. It was the most terrible thing imaginable.
For the past month, I had been tr
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Pee Pee Island: A Girl’s Guide to the Asian Squatty Potties
Guidebooks make reference to it – the Asian toilet a.k.a. Squatty Potty. Sure, guidebooks refer to it, but no one from Lonely Planet tells you how to use it. There is no diagram. They let you figure it out. For all of the ladies out there who are planning to travel to Asia, read on.
Trekk
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Buying Life – Bangkok, Thailand, Asia
Stepping out into the day for the first time, into Bangkok life on that bustling street, my senses instantaneously became overwhelmed. The smile of a Thai student flashing by on the back of a revving mini bike helped set the stage – a vibrant, colorful day in a chaotic, sun-filled sanctua
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Bangkok: Bureaucracy and Bribes but Brilliant – Bangkok, Thailand, Asia
Teaching in Thailand needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. If you can handle the hard work and bypass the bureaucracy, you’ll eventually fall in love with its people and culture.
After researching into visa requirements for working in The Kingdom, I was surprised when offered a job via an ag
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Coming Home: Enlightenment – Thailand, Asia
Some questions commonly asked since I’ve been back are: What have you learned? What’s the one thing that you learned or took away from the trip? Once in a while, there’s a playful question. Have I achieved enlightenment? No enlightenment, not even close. However, now that the dust has settled f
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Five Things I Love about Living in Thailand
Pool
I went to the pool today after work, swam for a while. It struck me that having my own pool (I do share it with the other people in the building, but I am usually in it by myself) is one of the things I love about living in Thailand.
Bangkok is hot enough that I can swim all year round. I&
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Escape from Thailand to China – Asia
Why anyone would want to visit tropical Thailand during the hottest and driest time of year will forever remain a mystery to me. Even guidebooks warn of the intolerable heat in March, April and May. It is a time when the hill tribes practice ancient swidden methods of agriculture, forest fires
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