Thailand
Thailand
28/02/2013 13:55
With sixteen million foreigners flying into the country each year, Thailand is Asia’s primary holiday destination. Yet despite this vast influx of visitors, Thailand’s cultural integrity remains largely undamaged – a country that adroitly avoided colonization has been able to absorb Western...
Bangkok
28/02/2013 13:46
The headlong pace and flawed modernity of Bangkok match few people’s visions of the capital of exotic Siam. Spiked with scores of high-rise buildings of concrete and glass, it’s a vast flatness that holds an estimated population of eleven million, and feels even bigger. Yet under the shadow of the...
Phuket
28/02/2013 13:45
Thailand’s largest island and a province in its own right, PHUKET (pronounced “Poo-ket”) has been a prosperous region since the nineteenth century, when Chinese merchants got in on its tin-mining and sea-borne trade, before turning to the rubber industry. It remains the wealthiest province in...
Ko Samui
28/02/2013 13:45
A million visitors a year, ranging from globetrotting backpackers to suitcase-toting fortnighters, come to southern Thailand just for the beautiful beaches of KO SAMUI, 80km from Surat. At 15km across and down, Samui is generally large enough to cope with this diversity – except during the rush at...