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What to do in
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Beaches,
hotels,
resorts,
scuba
diving,
nightlife,
plus plus.
The country
also has a
rich culture
and history,
great hotels
and beach
resorts,
plus a long
tradition as
one of the
leading
exporters in
south east
Asia. |
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Thailand trip
Bangkok, beaches,
outdoor adventure.
Vacation Thailand is probably what
most travelers are interested in and
the country formerly known as Siam
is offering probably the best
packages in Asia. A Thai tour can be
a spectacular holiday adventure and
there is no much to run around. If
you come into Bangkok the first to
do is a Bangkok tour and Bangkok
shopping.
For a quick exotic
sightseeing tour make a Ayutthaya
trip and explore the old Thai
capital of ancient kings, its only
about 2 hours with the train from
Bangkok and you will remember this
for your whole life, trust me, its
real great, there are several other
exiting Bangkok day trips, what to
do in Thailand has many variants.
Your
vacation is dedicated to
beaches? a
dense flight network bring you to
Phuket in
southern Thailand.
Phuket travel is best done out of
Singapore
and
Kuala Lumpur
since
the
airline
tickets
are
cheap,
between
$ 50
and
70,-
one
way,
using
Tiger
Airways and Air
Asia
(this is not Thai Air Asia) . From
Bangkok, flights are full with local
people (they milk them because they
have no alternative) and prices are
high with Thai Airways, Nok
Air, Bangkok Airways
and Thai Air Asia, their
philosophy
is,
milk
everyone
who is already in Bangkok means if
you are interested in southern
Thailand consider Singapore and
avoid Bangkok at all, not so long
ago Bangkok Air
squeezed
$
20,-
airport
tax
(90%
pax foreigners) at
their
private
airport
at
Ko
Samui
and
they
use
this
tactic
at
every
destination
they
fly.
Today it is very easy to
travel cheap to Thailand from almost
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cheapest
are Air Asia and Tiger Airways from
Singapore Changi. When flying in the
region it makes sense to use Changi
Airport Singapore as hub because
flights are cheap, service is good,
connections are excellent and the
immigration works fast, in Thailand
not. It is even cheaper to fly from
Phuket to Singapore (which is double
distance) as from
Bangkok
to
Phuket. |
Thailand travel tips
and vicinity plus the beaches, a
must see Thailand trip is to Chiang
Mai and the spectacular jungle
mountain river and artificial lake world of Kanchanaburi
east of Bangkok to the
Myanmar Thailand border plus Umphang south of
the "Golden Triangle" and the north
and south of Thailand. If you want
it real cheap use the
bus, tickets for the bus are really
worth the price, a bus usually is comfortable,
low
priced and starts
on time,
yes its true! A faster alternative
between an airplane and the regular
bus are the minibuses, they are much
faster and cost only a bit more, but
never every use a tuk-tuk, they will
do all kind of cheating, a
alternative within the city are
motorbike taxis and |
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normal
taxis
and
the
best
choice
is
BTS
Bangkok,
that's
the
elevated
train
and
the MRT subway, that's the
underground,
read more
about Bangkok here.
Everything within the private sector
is quite good organized even Thai
airways. For your trip you need some
money, the currency is the Baht
which is sometimes used as a
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nothing
more important in the country than
money and winning in the lottery,
speak "lotely", anyway
take your flight and rush
to the country of smiles a " Thai wai"
(Thai greetings by folding hands)
will welcome you. ATM's are almost
at every corner in the tourist
areas,
petrol stations at the highways,
Thai shopping malls, convenient
stores and other places, which means
no need to take lots of money with
you or change money just fill up
your account and pull the Thai Baht
out from the machine, be careful
about the frequency since they
charge you a fee for each
transaction which your bank will
finally deduct, all
bank HQ are concentrated in the
capital.
The country is also a excellent
place to open a foreign currency
account, nobody will find your hard
earned money afterwards, just take a
ATM card, what to do in Thailand can
be very useful. |
What to do in Thailand,
travel Bangkok. |
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is a great Asian metropolises
with a
new
airport
of modern architecture.
Almost all roads and flights
go through the capital. Huge
shopping malls and a
relatively new elevated
train system together with a
excellent underground train
system took out some of the
traffic problems of the
past, but for sure not
enough. |
Thailand travel tips BTS Bangkok. |
Bangkok is probably
your first stop in the
country, nightlife and shopping
there is
legendary, for sure one of
the best in the world, also
almost everything produced
in the country is quite cheap (to
US-EU) standard. Prices are
quite below
Singapore prices.
BTS
Bangkok is the premier means
to navigate through this
megapolis with about 10
million people is
the commercial hub and is more or less
located at the centre of
the country. There are plenty of
sightseeing spots
like Wat Phra Kaew – a very
famous monastery and temple,
Chinatown is a legend of its
own. At the
northern greater city
boundary is
Ayutthaya, the
legendary old capital of
Siam and Thailand, more
on
Bangkok is here. |
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Since Thailand weather
usually is excellent
at least about 8-9 month per year
with full sunshine and clear or
partly clear sky, the
country is primarily a beach
destination.
Beaches are plenty, a Thai beach and
some of
Phuket beaches
are exactly
the place where the vacationer from
anywhere in the world will enjoy to lay down
and get a good Thai beach massage
and lots of sun. Asking what to do
in Thailand a Thai massage is always
a good choice, usually available at Thai beaches in
front of a beach resort, beach hut
or maybe a beach bungalow and
naturally at the the spas in every
upper market resort and hotel. |
Thailand travel flights
Bangkok Phuket |
Vacation
in the country usually starts with
flights Bangkok Phuket. also mean beautiful
mountains, great lake and river
scenery, Bamboo jungle, lush tropical
rainforest, river resorts along the
River Kwai and other dark green
waters with rapids and lots of
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foreign and local tourists, a good
example is
Umphang,
read
more
about
Umphang
here. There
are legions of Thai girls and
women, who hang around at
the beaches and do a
good Thai massage and other things. They
also do it at the famous Thai
massage parlors available almost
everywhere in the country, if there are
no dedicated massage parlors in a
Thai town, every bigger hotel offers
massage service and many times a person
who want a massage can choose the
Thai lady for doing the Thai massage among others sitting
around,
read
more
about
Thai
girls
here.
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guess what ? Flights in and out are used
by millions of tourists every year
departing and arriving from
international destinations mainly at
Bangkok airport, Phuket, Krabi and Chiang
Mai,
read more
about Bangkok Airport here.
What to do in Thailand.
Not only beach
holidays on a great island
in the south, what about a
elephant ride in the tropical
mountain jungle, this can be done in
almost any Thai tourist area of
the north and west. Of course you
can also do some elephant trekking at
Phuket
island, Khao Lak, Krabi and
elsewhere on your trip. If you are
on a vacation trip its probably fun,
beach and nightlife you |
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are looking for and
yes you are at the right place at
the right time, read more about
Thailand
vacation here. The
country is full with all kind of
fun stimulation activities, the
Thai call this "sanook" and
nothing is much interesting when
there is not much fun. You probably
will once visit a 7-11 store and
find some of the employees sleeping
somewhere in the back, sleeping is
fun, among others. But
the greatest fun
is the nightlife
and the Thai bar girls who run the
nightlife more or less.
Nightlife with Thai bar girls is
the real stuff to make a lonely foreigner happy under the Siamese moon,
read more
about Thailand nightlife here
and other Thailand travel tips. |
Thailand
nightlife,
Phuket. |
What to
do in Thailand? Great Thai seafood and other
culinary delights are waiting they are served at
excellent Thai restaurants at any Thailand hotels, just
right at the beach or elsewhere,
read more
about Thai food here.
Another great encounter on your Thai
holiday are marvelous beach resorts
and other Thai luxury hotels and
resorts. Most of the upper scale
hotels have
excellent spa facilities, actually a
Thai spa is more or less a luxury extension of a Thai massage
parlor, massage is popular with
any tourist. But it needs to differentiate between the normal massage and the special one for the guys, among those are the famous soapy massage, we
cant
tell
what's
going
on
at
this
kind
of
massage
since
it
has
to
do
with
sex. |
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Thailand
data.
The country is the
world's 51st-largest country in terms of total area
and has approximately 63 million inhabitants.
About 80% of People are Thai, 10% Chinese, 3% Malay
and the rest are minorities such as Mon, Khmer and
various so called hill tribes which are again Karen,
Lisu and plenty of others.
Ethnic Thais are basically Chinese who came
about thousand years ago from the today
area of Yunnan, they got split with the Shan in
present day
Myanmar or Burma.
Siam always was a migratory crossroads and
got a wide ethnic diversity. About 70% of the
Thai population are Buddhist, others are Muslims,
Taoists and some Christians. There are plenty of people from
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Theravada Buddhism is the main religion but the
belief in spirits and demons is very popular,
most houses have a spirit shrine in front
of the house or inside to please the spirits.
Actually its very similar to Myanmar or Burma where
they call this spirits ‘Nats” and the shrines are
placed similar.
For the best places to visit have a look to
the menu bar at left since since the country has a
great tourism diversity, from the mountain
jungle of the north and west all the way to
the beaches and
limestone caves.
For a
traveler
who is
seeking sun,
beaches, nightlife
and some adventure travel
its the perfect environment.
The country is for sure amongst the top of the tourist and
travel destination and a Thailand
beach is usually a real pleasure.
There are great tour destinations
with top notch scenery of the Thai
coastal areas and islands are joined by a beautiful
nature in the mountains and hills of the Thai western
boarder areas towards Myanmar or Burma and in the north Laos
with scenic rivers, jungle and
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resorts.
There are no problems in that area, all war in this area had
ended already about a decade ago, its safe to travel there
and the reward are great panoramas and incredible views, a
prototype for a memorable Thai vacation and don't forget
Thailand nightlife, this are probably some of the most
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There are huge dams and reservoirs, great river
resorts, floating villages on the lakes, incredible
waterfalls rivers for jungle rafting and other Thailand
tours. All this scenic areas are usually integrated into a
Thailand national park and there are over 60.
You could visit the areas via
a
Thailand tour package or on individual trip.
A very particular holiday subject is trekking, hiking and
river rafting is
around Kanchanaburi and from there to the west
towards the three pagoda pass.
Everyone know the “Bridge over the River Kwai” visible
at Kanchanaburi town.
Nearby is one of the most
exiting waterfall on planet earth, the Erawan Falls. Erawan waterfall is a real highlight on any Thailand
holiday, not the biggest
waterfall but the location and
the scenery of the waterfall
running down mountains over
7 level is real great.
Other places to visit are for almost every
taste and wallet size. Whether you're a tourist,
traveler, backpacker or whatever, you never get bored on Thailand
vacation.
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Another world famous is Thai food
can be hot and spicy
since
the Thai put
lots of chili into it.
If you don't like this,
since it really will let your
stomach burn for hours,
when you order Thai food
anywhere tell them ..mei pet.., this means not hot from chili
or other spices. You have a chance of 50/50 that you get it,
because most of the time they say, yes yes, but wont do it,
they just ignore it. On
your Thailand vacation try the seafood, if you don't, you miss
something, means,
what to do in Thailand, eat Thai
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If you visit a Thai restaurant and have been in
the country before you will notice that fish prices almost doubled within the last 3 years
(current is 2011) , but
there are so many other delicious dishes based on chicken
..called gai.. and muu, this is pork and
so on.
If you like Thai seafood
such as shrimps or prawns,
be careful, all shrimp come from
the farm and there they mix a awful lot of antibiotics and
other
chemicals into the feedings.
The outcome today is that
in the country almost all conventional
antibiotics based on
penicillin don’t work
anymore with the locals.
Most people who come
choose Thai beach vacation,
either at the endless
beaches and beach resorts on
the mainland or the great
beaches on the islands. Phuket is the biggest
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island and a prime vacation
destination, second is
Koh Chang und
Ko Samui is
the third
largest island in the Gulf
of Thailand. Just a short distance
from Koh Samui
is Koh Phangan and the Ang
Thon Archipelago. Around
Phuket, Phang Nga Bay and
towards Krabi, Phi Phi and
Trang are countless islands, beaches
and coral
reefs.
On the east side of the
gulf of Thailand is
Pattaya
and several
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attractive islands and tourist
destinations. Along the
eastern seaboard is one
of the highest industrial
density and a
huge deep sea port.
A trip from Thailand
to
Malaysia
leads you into the deep south. Actually there is a
conflict, the
insurgency in the south
east. Some Islamist in the province
of the south east want to
break free from the present
state and create their own
Muslim state. For this they
kill people every day, throw
bombs and even kill
Buddhist monks, women, schoolchildren and burn down
schools. Actually if
one don't travel into this
particular provinces there wont be any
problems, this conflict is limited to that
area around the eastern
border with Malaysia.
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The Tarutao Archipelago
is off the southern west
coast of Thailand with more
than 50 islands. Behind the
border is the island of Langkawi and further south
is the betel nut island
Penang
or Pulau Pinang,
read
more about Ko Tarutao here.
There is big game fishing
in the
Andaman Sea and
Thai scuba diving off
the west coast with some of
the best diving grounds on
earth. Such as
Similan Islands,
the
Surin
Archipelago and
the Myanmar Islands of the
Myeik
or Mergui Archipelago
in Myanmar. Accessible from
Phuket via life aboard
trips out of Phuket,
read
more about scuba diving
Thailand here.
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Backpacking Thailand
is very popular since
accommodation, food and
transportation is quite
cheap with a excellent and
cheap bus system for
Thailand road travel means
no need to travel on the
back of a elephant or
buffalo, actually if you
like you can do a elephant
ride, its available in
most tourist areas.. You could hire one of
the small motorbikes, called "motocyc"
for about 4 - 5 dollars per day. But
be careful, road traffic in Thailand
is a chaotic experience with lots of
accidents since nobody cares about
traffic rules. Actually is looks that
most of Thai people never even
heard that traffic rules exist. The best would be to travel with a tank because the bigger something is the bigger is the respect,
this are real Thailand
travel tips, no joke, no
fuss.
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Orchid nursery in Thailand |
Visiting a Thai
orchid nursery.
Orchids, in
particular
dendrobium
orchids are somehow national flowers
of the country. A Thai orchid
nursery or garden is a overwhelming
optical adventure. A unbelievable
sea of orchid colors in all shades
of the visible spectrum it is a
feast for the eyes. They usually
have, dendrobium,
cattleya,
vanda,
dyakia,
phalaenopsis,
paphiopedilum and
other typeof hybrids and
species. Only the hybrids
are usually for sale, there
is a strict ban on any
export of species to curb
orchid poaching. Aside of orchid cut
flower and orchid retail
they also sell orchid seed
and orchid seedlings sterile
packet into the bottle. The
bottle are reused Thai
whisky bottles, at least to
do a good purpose,
read more
about Thai orchid here.
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Thailand Markets |
Thailand vacation
is also a excellent idea for
honeymoon
in luxury
hotels and beach resorts just
the right destination for your happy
days. At Trang in southern Thailand
they even offer underwater weddings
every year. To
easily find out what to do and where to go in Siam
- Siam is the old name for Thailand- you will find maps of Thailand at most
of the relevant pages, and you can
watch great videos in our video
section, some videos are also at youtube but youtube prefer videos
with girls Taliban style, we don't
have this, we have Thai sexy.
One of the most
attractive activity during
Thailand vacation is, go shopping,
but the best is to have a
look around open air markets and in
particular at the Thai night
markets. If you
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visit one of the huge shopping center they have in every big city you will very often just find the same stuff like in any shopping center in the world, native handicraft, Thai silk etc.
Thailand markets
are
legend,
from the night
markets at Patpong, Phuket, Patong and Chiang
Mai night Bazaar, just to
mention a few among other.
There are thousands of other
markets in Thailand with great
colors and lots to see. The
markets are full with
fruits, flowers, fake items,
food and myriads of other
items. There are
cloth
market
and dress markets, they all
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Thailand travel
Some
of the best Thailand tourist destinations
are the mountains and rivers
of northern Thailand and at
the western border areas to
Myanmar. That's also the
area where
the Myanmar Karen refugee
camps are. The Thai
picture at right are from this area. This is
also the right
destination for Thailand
adventure travel, in
particular jungle waterfall, trekking, and river
rafting. Actually a Umphang
river rafting
tour should be
on the Thailand visit plan of
everyone. There you can explore the
real Thailand, far away
from the beaches. Touring the great
mountain jungle area
of Thailand Myanmar
border.
You also can see the
Karen refugee camps or
villages south of Mao Sot on
the road
to Umphang, and near
the road from Mae
Sot to the north, but only
from outside, they
wont let foreigners
visiting the
villages. |
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A very good transportation infrastructure makes it easy
and comfortable to tour every corner of Thailand.
Thai people are very eager to help you on your
Thailand trip because foreigner means money
and money makes everyone in Thailand happy. No yoke,
money or -tang- in Thai language is the absolute
number one.
One of the best idea
on your Thailand vacation is travel Bangkok
Phuket and the other places
to
southern Thailand and let the legs hang down into the Andaman
Sea. Great
islands and beaches are waiting. Travel Thailand is
quite safe, here are some
problems in far south east of Thailand but this
problems are only at a limited area along the border
with Malaysia, there is no war of any kind of
insurgent in the rest of Thailand. Consider this page
and the website in general as a Thailand pictures
based travel guide with plenty of information for a
interesting Thailand travel package, info for great
Thailand tours and other travel advisory
Thailand,
read more about Bangkok Phuket
here and other Thailand travel tips.
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Bangkok
Phuket. |
Travel Thailand is
not only how to travel to Thailand and travel in
Thailand, its also important to know something
about travel from Thailand since many people use
Thailand as hub to explore the greater area of south
east Asia around Thailand, in particular Myanmar and
Cambodia who have no direct flight connections to
Europe, US and Australia. When you travel to and in
Thailand make a travel insurance for Thailand and the other country you might go.
Before starting contact your health insurance
company at home
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to give you a Thai contact.
Almost every reasonable Thai hospital has some links to Europe
health
and
travel
insurance
companies. Keep in mind
that travel by road can be quite dangerous, the
country has one of the highest road accident
count worldwide, so its quite possible to encounter
an accident and you better be prepared for that.
Although travel Thailand is quite save and it wont
need a lot of advice its better to
careful. Travel Thailand Cambodia is a typical
situation, if anything happen when you go from
Thailand to Cambodia you better get back to Thailand
immediately.
Travel Thailand
opens
up great panoramas with incredible views.
Breathtaking pictures and videos you can bring home
from your travel Thailand vacation. Most people will
travel to
southern Thailand.
This is the direction for travel to Phuket, Koh
Samui, Krabi Thailand, the
Andaman Sea and
further south is Trang with the great Trang
Archipelago and near the Thailand Malaysia border is
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called
the
Tarutao
archipelago
with
about
50
great
Thai
islands.
Several
variants
are
possible
for
travel
Thailand,
there
is
group
travel
in Thailand
and
solo
travel.
One
of
the
newer
travel
ideas
in
Thailand
is
gay
travel.
The
travel
Thailand
infrastructure
is
excellent.
Your
travel
Thailand
trip
our
tour
will
be a
success
because
it
is
very
easy
to
go
to
any
place
in
Thailand. |
Travel by Thailand bus,
airplane, ship,
taxi or rent a motor bike or a car. Thailand
holiday means beach travel for most of the
people who come to Thailand for holidays.
That also means visiting the beaches of
southern Thailand. It is very easy to find a
appropriate accommodation in Thailand even
right
on the beach.
There are plenty of guesthouses, hotels and
beach resorts available at all places
tourist usually visit.
Phuket,
Koh Samui,
Krabi,
Koh Chang
or maybe
Trang
and at other places where you maybe are the
only traveler to that part of Thailand.
There are
cheap beach cottages and expensive hotels
and beach resorts in the Thailand luxury
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searching for some
Thailand travel advice
have a look here or visit
some travel agencies at any place to touch
down in Thailand. They will tell you what
you want to hear and offer you plenty of
trips and tours.
Maybe you like
adventure travel in Thailand,
no problem, boat travel or any other deal,
no much to think at
what to do in Thailand.
Most of
travel destinations are open
for business 12 month a year. The best
travel time in Thailand is from November to
April but any other time is also quite good
since the climate in Thailand it is always
warm. Even when there are rainy days, in
particular during monsoon times, you see the
sun everyday, usually for some hours. Travel
to Thailand is even a good alternative
for the summer holiday travel in Europe.
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Travel to Umphang Namtok Pra Charoen National Park
Waterfall Mae Sot |
Maybe you
travel to Phuket, because if you count
all costs together for a road travel with
your car in Europe and compare it with a
trip and flight to Thailand plus
accommodation Thai food and so on, its still
cheaper in Thailand.
Travel from Bangkok
west to
Kanchanaburi
and
Umphang and further westwards to enjoy the breathtaking panoramas of the blue mountains along the border Thailand Myanmar. There are huge reservoir for electricity generation and this artificial lakes are the home of many Thai and Thai - Karen people who live on floating houses and go fishing. Its the right place for a Thailand eco inspired travel tour by trekking und hiking through the mountain jungle, doing some rafting in the River
Kwai, see one of the absolute top waterfalls in Thailand,
the Erawan falls and nearby the Sai Yoke waterfall. Enjoying
great food in one of the river resorts and Thai hotels along
the River Kwai Noi, you can also have a look for the Bridge
over the River Kwai at Kanchanaburi,
read more
about Kanchanaburi here.
Further north is Mae Sot, only
reachable by a several hundred kilometers detour
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trough central
Thailand. Mae Sot is a busy little city with
a border crossing over the friendship
bridge. Buy cheap natural
Myanmar jade there, no fake and not
treated,
read more about Mae
Sot here. A great destination for your exiting
Thailand travel is south of Mae Sot,
first the Namtok Pra Charoen National Park
Waterfall, after you bridge into
Myanmar, visa costs are US $ 10,-, the Myanmar visa there is can see a huge
Karen refugee camp. At the end at Umphang
waits the biggest and spectacular waterfall of
Thailand and Asia, the
Thee Lor Sue Water Fall at
Umphang.
Umphang is also the right place for a exiting
mountain jungle river rafting tour. Again a little bit
further north on your Thailand travel trip
another nice town, its Mae Hong Son. Mae Hong Son
actually more or less lives from the border trade
with Myanmar. The whole
Myanmar Shan
State including huge parts of the
Myanmar golden
triangle is supplied with almost everything people
needs. This also brought and bring a lot of drug
money from the
Myanmar side into the city. Almost everywhere on
your Thailand travel you can find excellent
hotels above about baht 1000,- per night and budget
hotel for less than baht 1000,- per night, on many
locations even for less than baht 500,- and
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But there is a
certain tradeoff since lots of the very
cheap Thailand accommodations naturally don't offer
the best hygienic standard. Especially
toilets and beds are some times substandard
and Thai are very noisy.
Motorcycle and Bike Travel.
To have a
good and pleasant travel Thailand experience,
spend a little bit more money and it will
prevent you form serious trouble. The
same is valid for Thai restaurants and food
stalls along the streets. You eat there you
have a good chance to get real sick. Also if you
intend to hit the road on your travel
Thailand trip either with a cheap Thai
motorbike, about baht 150,-
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per day or a
reasonable car, starting at about
baht 500,- per
day
-as
a reference for car and motorbike rental
check here-.
Put a helmet on your head when using a motorbike on
your travel Thailand trip, since either you get
fined or your die at an accident. As a parameter,
only on Phuket island they have about 200.000
accidents per year, mostly with motorbikes. You
should know that Thailand has one of the highest
count in road accidents worldwide, since most don't
care about traffic rules and drunken driving is
almost normal, especially after about 9 pm. Means
have a good travel insurance otherwise you might run
into a real disaster. Also other things can happen
like the airport blockade organized by some lunatic
politicians, a good insurance is really helpful on that.
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Exotic Thai travel
Kayan lady
and girl at Mae Hong Son |
Close to Mae
Hong Son city is a refugee village of
the Myanmar Kayan or Padaung people who fled
from their villages near Lake Inle during
fighting of the Myanmar army with Karen
insurgent.
The women and
girls in this village are famous for their
long neck with brass coils which looking
like rings wound around. They say its to
remember to their ancestors, mythical naga
snakes.
It is
necessary to mention that the people in this
Karen refugee villages are not living
worst than the normal Thai people of that
rural area. There are several Karen refugee
villages along the border road from Mae Sot
to Mae Hong Son. This border road is in an
amazingly good condition for such a remote
area and the area in general could be just
the right stuff for your Thailand Travel
adventure trip, just hire a car and go, you
wont regret and have a real unique
experience. Some of
the refugees even live better than the Thais
of that area since there are a lot of
international agencies from the EU and NGO
who look after them. They supply almost
everything the Karen refugees need including
health care, houses, water, food and
transportation. This is one of the real
reasons why so many people from the Myanmar
side come into
this villages since they live much better
here than on the Myanmar side. Almost all
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insurgents has ceased many years ago. The
only real problem for them is, they cant
leave the villages. Road block
before and after the villages makes it
impossible to get out. On top of it the
refugee villages are always located in
narrow deep valleys, this also prevents from
trekking out through the mountain jungle,
here are plenty of Thailand travel tips.
The rural
area opens up breathtaking panoramas all the
time, its a real feast for the eyes and
a take a deep breath to get the get the
cool, oxygen saturated breeze into the
lungs, you body will be happy. The wind
comes through deep valleys and bring the
fresh smell of the mountain jungle to you,
the only thing you have to do is, take a
strong breath.
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A Thai Wat in
the mountains at
Doi Mae Salong
north of Mae Hong Son and close to Chiang
Rai, this is a short peep into
Thailand western
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Thailand road travel.
Driving in a
foreign country can be a terrifying prospect,
especially in a country as here where almost everyone wont obey
traffic rules. If you are planning a holiday
to Thailand and want to explore this
fascinating country in your own time road
travel is the choice. An excellent
road
network
enables you visiting places
that would otherwise be tricky to get to,
in this cases hiring a car is an absolute
must. Although Thailand is becoming a
modern, bustling country, with new main
roads and traffic control systems in the
capital, it is still a country
where you must be very careful when you
drive. Although the majority of citizens are
polite and friendly, traffic laws can often
be ignored by the locals in favor of getting
to their destination - you'll
find city driving a crazy experience and
it's not recommended for
nervous drivers!
Anyway road travel is something
special.
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Thai Wat in
the mountains at
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The first road
travel rule of driving in Thailand is, as in
neighboring countries such as Malaysia and
the UK in Europe, they drive on the
left-hand side of the road. Be aware,
however, that on many country roads and in
the alleys of the capital there is often only
the one lane - so you may find yourself
squeezing right up the kerb to allow other
cars past, including 12 wheeled trucks.
Thai road travel
on country roads at night is
not recommended, especially on holidays and
long weekends, as the country is still
tackling the issue of drunk drivers and many
cars used by the local populace sport broken
or no lights at all. Nevertheless, in the
daytime, driving in Thailand can be a very
pleasurable experience with stunning views
and far better access to the "hidden gems"
of the country.
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Thai road
travel |
For road travel
with a car you will need a
current, non-probationary drivers license to
drive. This can be from nearly
any country, but if it is not written in
Thai or English then you must always carry
an International drivers license or a full
English translation. In addition, a valid
passport must be carried at all times.
If you are
planning to extend your Thailand trip for
more time (over three months,
officially) then you will need to apply for
a Thai drivers license to do your Thai road
travel. The country
boasts
an excellent network of roads to make tours quite easy, especially around Bangkok and in
the north and south in the popular tourist
areas of Chiang Mai and Phuket. From
bustling city to remote paradise, you can do
road travel to it all in Thailand, although
it is a much bigger country than many
realize.
Northern
Thailand offers jungle covered mountains and
a vast array of rare wildlife, while the
south offers unspoilt sandy beaches and
tropical islands. In-between you will
explore ancient cities, national parks,
traditional villages and a
huge diversity of culture. Festivals run
throughout the year and the range of
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food mean there is
something for everyone.
Many choose a trip to the Golden Triangle, then explore
the islands to the south. This is also
possible with a rented car, whether you want to
explore a quiet paradise island or one of
the bustling resort islands full of clubs,
bars and an exciting nightlife.
Insurance is important as accidents are
frequent. When you hire your car
you will be offered several choices for
insurance, as in Thailand they often insure
just the vehicle. It's highly recommended
that you do not try to get a budget deal, or
choose a company that you may be unsure of.
There are some excellent
cheap car hire
companies available who will also deal with
insurance, so hiring a car should not have
to break the bank and you can afford to get
the latest, safest model of vehicle, more
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