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Sawadee kap

A travel blog entry by renu-and-sam

The Thailand portion of our wonderful odyssey had been a huge question mark over the last month or so. I think we first got wind of the conflict* through family while we were just arriving in South Africa. We remained largely ignorant of the escalating tension until the outbreak of violence in the center of Bangkok. We did our research and felt …

Hipsters in Thailand

A travel blog entry by sarahkaty

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Here in Thailand you can basically bargain your way to an entirely new wardrobe for about fifty bucks (along with a couple Thai massages and fresh mango smoothies). There are many markets in Bangkok, most of them at night and outside. Here you will usually have to fight your way through narrow steamy hot corridors of vendors selling slight …

Smaltimore

A travel blog entry by levinson5

... which is right in the middle of the city. We arrived at the hotel at lunchtime so we dropped our bags and took a recommendation to go to HOT CHILI for lunch. Delicious, and gorgeous. The restaurant is open on all sides, and they were in the midst of decorating for christmas. The Christmas decorating thing in SE Asia is interesting, because the great majority of the countries are 70-90% Buddhist, or Muslim but they take their decorating seriously. We decided we'd been ...

James likes shopping

A travel blog entry by katyandjames

... at clothes... and it turned out to be complete shopping role-reversal; when we met up I'd finished looking at the 3 floors of clothes shops and was ready to leave, but James had only seen half of one floor and wanted to go back and buy things!! He ended up getting a computer game and some KFC.

This evening we did a bit of people watching over a drink on Khao San, and had a 15 minutes fish spa - as creepy as it is those things are actually ...

Thai Boxing Breaks into Experiential Tourism

A travel blog entry by thailandupdate

... Thailand’s visitors.

In other words, a new tourism market niche is opening up big-time: Muay Thai training in style and luxury at some of Bangkok’s upscale hotels. And talk of a posh Muay Thai stadium for tourists in the not-too-distant future, where they can watch great fights in comfort while sipping champagne or nibbling on cucumber sandwiches – or something along these lines.

The Siam hotel and The Peninsula are the first two ...