Thailand
A comprehensive travel guide to Thailand, featuring top places and must-visit attractions. Discover what to see independently, on foot, or by car, along with ratings for the best hotels. Highlights include Bangkok’s Grand Palace and Wat Pho, the Phi Phi Islands, Phang Nga Bay, Khao Sok and Doi Inthanon National Parks, and scenic drives around Chiang Mai, encompassing Wat Phra That Doi Suthep and Doi Pui village.
Hotels
Thailand has no shortage of hotel guides. What it lacks is a straight answer to a simple question. In which…
Life hack
Most first trips to Thailand follow the same script: a few days in Bangkok, then straight to the islands. Chiang…
Lifehack
Chiang Mai in the brochures is a square of moat, a few golden temples, the Sunday market and a morning…
Hotels
Chiang Mai is small. The Old City is a square of roughly 1.5 by 1.5 kilometers inside a moat, and…
Lifehack
Chiang Mai works best as a base, not a destination. Most people come for the old temples and the markets,…
Places
Chiang Mai has more than 300 temples inside and around a city of 130,000 people, and most of them still…
Vacation ideas
Koh Samui is one of the few islands I keep going back to. Before my first trip I expected another…
Tours
Samui sits in the middle of a small archipelago. Ang Thong marine park lies 30 km to the west, Koh…
Hotels
Koh Samui has a few hundred hotels squeezed onto a 25 by 21 kilometer island, and the beach you pick…
Places
Samui looks like white sand and palm trees from the plane window, and most visitors never get past Chaweng Beach.…
History
Bangkok rewards a plan. Its main sights are spread between the old royal island of Rattanakosin, the river, and the…
Places
Phuket is Thailand's largest island, hanging off the southwest coast on the Andaman Sea and joined to the mainland by…