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Thailand Kanchanaburi ”Death Railway Viadukt” 1

Thailand Kanchanaburi ''Death Railway Viadukt'' 1

Nong Khai to Udon Thani & Ban Chiang

Darkest Isan (where decent thais fear to tread), Part Eleven For some people a holiday means laying on white sand beaches, sipping umbrellared cocktails and ogling bronze flesh. For others it means being bounced to death in a suspension-less bus/sauna breathing three completely new varieties of pollution and sitting with your knees tucked under your chin watching the netted sacks of crickets by your feet writhe around the floor like some sort of mutant blob from planet X. However as the saying goes, in travel sometimes the journey is better than arriving, and certainly on some parts of the next leg of my journey, it was to prove true…………….

History of the Tourism Authority of Thailand

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) was established on the 18th March 1960. TAT was the first organization in Thailand to be specifically responsible for the promotion of tourism. Since the inception of the first local office of TAT in Chiang Mai in 1968, there are now 35 regional offices throughout Thailand.

"Bangkok Bound" Claratour’s photos around Krabi, Thailand

"Bangkok Bound" Claratour's photos around Krabi, Thailand

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Krabi, Thailand by TravelPod blogger Claratour titled "Bangkok Bound" Claratour's travel blog entry: "sawadee kha! So I am finally here! got to bangkok on thursday night - wow!what a place - its seedy, dirty, smelly and i loved it! to say it was hot is a mild understatement. It was 35c the night we were there.

Bridge on the River Kwai, Kanchanaburi. On the Beaten Track, Part 1

Bridge on the River Kwai Travellers always seem to score points off one another by comparing how remote the places they have been are, the further away the crowd the more you can lord it over other travellers you meet in the bar. In any travellers bar when you hear someone mention they went to Ankor Wat sure enough a pretentious voice will put them down for going to a tourist mecca and proudly proclaiming they gave Ankor a miss and went to Two Bricks in a pile of Buffalo Dung Temple instead located in the middle of nowhere and without another tourist in sight. Occasionally being guilty of this myself one thing I’ve noticed is there’s a reason tourists go to the popular sites, because the remote ones you visit as an alternative are often pretty crap compared to them. So over the last few years I’ve increasingly become a blip amongst the crowd of package tourists on the beaten track once again.

Jao Por Tap Chinese Parade

The Chinese people of Samrong in Samut Prakan Province believe that their God Jao Por Tap will help them get rich. Behind Imperial World, on the old Paknam Railway Road, they have built a large Chinese shrine dedicated to this God. Every year, on the last Sunday of January, they hold a parade through town which is attended by literally thousands of local people.