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What to do in Thailand, Thai Travel Tips & Guide

 

Travel by aircraft, car, bus, motorbike and on foot via hiking and trekking is very easy, beaches, great hotels & resorts, scuba diving, nightlife, backpacker and luxury, everything available, plus plus. The country also has a rich culture, history and a long tradition as one of the leading exporters in south east Asia.

Bangkok Airport Arrival

A trip to the country of smile and arrivals at Bangkok and other places. Rushing to beaches, outdoor adventure or other vacation activities is probably what most travelers are interested. In Siam as it was formerly known are top packages available for this purpose. This can be a spectacular adventure and no need much to run around. If you arrive in the capital go to a travel agent and a day after you hit the road, maybe to southern Thailand, read more.

Suvarnabhumi departure

Phetchaburi Road at Pratunam
This is Bangkok City, Phetchaburi Road at Pratunam. Here is the focusing point in Thailand, all decisions are made here, all traffic goes through. This is an Asian metropolis by any means.

Bangtao Beach Phuket southern Thailand
Beaches are plenty and some fun is for sure, not only with elephants. This is exactly why foreigners come to Thailand many come for a bustling nightlife with pretty bar girls. There are islands to be explored, scuba diving, boat trips and more.

The old Thai capital at a Ayutthaya Trip
The old Thai capital houses at riverbanks
Bangkok Night Trip

Bangkok Night Trip
 

Do also some shopping for local items, everything is much cheaper as at home. For a quick exotic history tour make a Ayutthaya trip and explore the old Thai capital of ancient kings, its only about 2 hours with the train and you will remember this for your whole life, trust me, its real great.

There are several other exiting Bangkok night trips, what to do in Thailand has many variants. Your vacation destination are beaches? a dense flight network bring you to Phuket, Krabi, Trang and the area around in southern Thailand. The quickest drive to the beach is to take the airport bus to Pattaya.

Off the city are islands with exotic beaches, resorts and other accommodations. In this days it's better to travel light, no need to take heavy luggage with you, everything needed is cheaply available.

Travel tips

some flights could also be done from Singapore and

old thai capital
The old Thai capital
Bangkok Day Trip
Bangkok Day Trip on the river

Kuala Lumpur since 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 and prices are high if you are interested in southern Thailand consider Singapore and KL.

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, trying to monopolize and squeeze the people. They did the same with the the short hop to Siem Reap but this is changing since Air Asia moved in and brought prices down. In general your first choice in the region should always be Air Asia.

Today it is very easy to travel cheap to Thailand from almost everywhere, when flying in the region it makes sense to use Changi Airport Singapore, service is good, connections are excellent and the immigration works fast. It is even cheaper to fly from Phuket to Singapore (which is double distance) as from Bangkok to Phuket.

 
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Bangkok Skyline
Bangkok Skyline when coming to down town with the Airport Link
Thailand Bus
Thailand bus a highway station

The best and fasted vehicle in urban areas are motorbikes, they can be rented everywhere for around Baht 150,- but it is very dangerous to drive with them because most people don't know about traffic rules and they just don't care.

A must see is Chiang Mai with the night bazaar 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".


Thailand Motorbike for rent or buy.
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! There are big buses

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 use a tuk-tuk, they will do all kind of cheating, a alternative within the city are motorbike taxis and normal taxis.

The best choice is BTS Bangkok, that's the elevated train and the MRT subway, that's the underground. 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 speculation objects by the ruling parties  anyway take your flight and rush to the country of smiles a " Thai wai" (Thai greetings by folding hands) will welcome you.

Bangkok to Phuket
Bangkok to Phuket by aircraft

 

ATM's are almost at every second corner in the tourist areas, petrol stations at the highways, 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 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, there are many different answers when you ask yourself, what to do in Thailand.

What to do in Thailand Bangkok
What to do in Thailand
when travel Bangkok.

Bangkok

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.

BTS Bangkok
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.

Bangkok Megabridge
Bangkok River Port and mega bridge and city port

Since 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.

flights Bangkok Phuket
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 fishes. River rafting in the brown waters is very popular among

foreign and local tourists, a good example is Umphang. 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 massage among others sitting around, they also offer the special massage for the guys,

you 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.

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

Thailand vacation
Thailand vacation

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.

Thailand nightlife
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

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.



Country 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 India, Pakistan, Arab, Malay and so called western people. All of them influenced traditions and cultures over time.

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

Spirit Shrine
Spirit Shrine

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 interesting Thailand travel tips.

River Kwai Bridge
River Kwai Bridge at Kanchanaburi

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.

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 food, its sometime heavens delight.

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 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

Thai Seafood
Thai Seafood, what to do in Thailand,  travel Bangkok, Thai travel.

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 

Thailand travel tips
From Thailand to Malaysia

attractive islands and tourist destinations. Along the eastern seaboard is one of the highest industrial density and a huge deep sea port.

Thailand travel tips

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.

The Tarutao Archipelago

is off the southern west coast 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. 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.

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.

Orchid nursery in Thailand
Orchid nursery in Thailand
Visiting a 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.

Thailand Markets
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- you will find maps at same 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 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

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.

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 play a important role in the Thai economic.

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.

Thailand Markets
Thailand Markets

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 vacation is travel Bangkok to 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.

Travel Thailand
Travel Thailand Bangkok Phuket.

Travel Thailand is not only how to travel in the country, its also important to know something about travel from the country to other places across the order since many people use the country as hub to explore the greater area of south east Asia, in particular Myanmar and Cambodia who have no direct flight connections to Europe, US and Australia. When you travel to and in the country make a travel insurance for and the other country you might go. Before starting contact your health insurance company at home 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 another archipelago called the Tarutao archipelago with about 50 great Thai islands. Several variants are possible for travel,

there is group travel in Thailand and solo travel. One of the newer travel ideas is gay travel. The travel infrastructure is excellent which will make your trip a sure success because it is very easy to go move to any place in the country.

Travel by 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 

Thailand bus
Thailand bus

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 travel segment. If you are 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.

Travel to Umphang
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.

Further north is Mae Sot, only reachable by a several hundred kilometers detour

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. 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 guesthouses are even cheaper.

Short distance trip

But there is a certain tradeoff since lots of the very cheap 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 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 - 

short distance trip Phuket
Thai travel short distance

the road on your travel Thailand trip either with a cheap Thai motorbike, about baht 150,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.


Exotic Thai travel

Kayan lady and girl Mae Hong Son
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 fighting between the Myanmar army and the

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.

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 travel travel, for more just browse the website. If you want to know everything more closer click to our e-book section and download our great e-books with all pictures in full scale. If you are in Thailand you can buy all the books at Asia Book stores and Bookazine stores in almost every big city in Thailand and at every airport in Thailand.

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 the country 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.

Doi Mae Salong
Thai Wat in the mountains at Doi Mae Salong

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.

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 can be a very pleasurable experience with stunning views and far better access to the "hidden gems" of the country.

Thai road travel
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

food mean there is something for everyone. Many choose a trip to the Golden Triangle around the Myanmar, Thai, Laos border and after then explore the islands in the south, maybe Phuket beaches and nightlife. 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, that's the same at Pattaya.

For Thailand a travel 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 e-book.
 

 
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