Thailand

I want to go to this place because of the food. Eversince I read about someone’s trip to Thailand from a food magazine on how she learned to cook Thai food, I never stopped thinking about doing the same. And it’s really a cool way to travel. Very interactive, instead of just doing your normal sightseeing.

I am planning to visit January 2009!

Thailand is a HUGE tourist destination. its easier and safer to travel there if you are not an experienced backpacker, but if you want authentic culture and less pushy people who see you as a dollar sign – GET OFF THE TOURIST TRAIL. its a big country with a LOT of low-key chill places with less tourists… and 10 places that are great to see, but also crowded. try do do both if you have time!

Great culture, beautiful palaces.

Talk to the locals, and go and spend atleast an hour at a temple.

Overwhelmed in Bangkok, but fell in love with Phuket. When in Bangkok one must visit the Grand Palace; to think that such a majestic place was built by hand is mind-bogling. And, of course a visit to Mbk is another must. Mbk is 7 floor of incredible shopping.
But if you must visit only one place, then Phuket is the place to go. It’s fast-pace, but you can take it slow; it’s got crazy night life (beware of the ladyboys), but great day activity are all around; and the Songkran water festival lets you be wild and spiritual at the same time (check out the picture). What more could you as for!!!!

try their pad thai :)

It was about 4 in the morning when we finally reached our hotel. Now, my mother speaks Thai fluently, but she wasn’t prepared for what was going to happen next.
We were hungry so we asked a cab driver if he could take us to a restaurant. He did.
The restaurant was nothing special, but you could pick your favourite sea food from a bunch of tanks. We had crab and a lobster, along with some fried rice.
The food wasn’t the best I’d had, but somehow the whole dinner ended up costing us $450.
A terrible mistake we made. We still joke about it almost everyday.

My girlfriend took us to Kamala Beach on Phuket for just over 2 weeks and it was awesome. So relaxing, the Thai are such kind people they just put you at ease. We also rode an elephant, saw a Muay Thai tournament and spent plenty of time on the beach. Really was a great trip.

Thai people are really nice and friendly! You always can get help if you need, but it’s just their english is not very well, so sometimes when you’re speaking english, there’ll be nobody could understand you.
The weather is very hot. Most people wear T-shirts. You will get sweat so easily! And this is the only thing that I hate.
Thailand has anything you want! I mean, you can go shopping and there’re many international brands—but they all cheaper than Europe, USA or Japan and even China! But the service has not changed.
If you want to stay in there for long term, you will find some apartments that the prices are very low—about 4,000 baht per months.
Anyway, the most thing in Thailand that attracted me is people are really NICE! They always smiling to others!