Articles By: Patrice Asia Thailand Traveller

/ 28 May 2013 14 h 13 min

If clubbing is your thing, the answer is RCA.

If clubbing is your thing, the answer is RCA. Between Rama IX road and Phetchaburi road, in the Huai Khwang district in Bangkok, you find the city’s largest entertainment and clubbing area, called Royal City Avenue or simply RCA. Along this road, which was set up by the government years ago, you’ll find an UMG cinema, a bowling alley, a [...]

/ 27 May 2013 11 h 56 min

Water-Taxi’s in the canals (klongs) of Bangkok.

Water-Taxi’s in the canals (klongs) of Bangkok. For many people a normal cheap transportation across the city of Bangkok the go to their work. Also for tourist a real experience to make a trip with the boats. The bring you also to many temples the building behind the canals. Around the canals you see many beautiful nature. When you have [...]

/ 23 May 2013 15 h 21 min

Bangkok by bicycle.

Bangkok by bicycle. The city of Bangkok has no reputation of being a pedestrian or bicycle friendly city, but exploring the Thai capital on bike has become increasingly popular by foreign visitors and the number of organizers of these tours are getting up quickly. More tourists, who have booked their stay in hotels and resorts in the crowded city have [...]

/ 16 May 2013 17 h 17 min

Phuket International Airport (HKT)

Phuket International Airport , which is located in the north of the island on about 32 km. from the city center is the second busiest airport in Thailand. Millions of passengers visiting Phuket arrive each year to stay in the “Best hotels and Resorts” the island has to offer. Most visitors to Phuket have their hotel or resort booked before [...]

/ 15 May 2013 16 h 03 min

Lumpini Boxing Stadium.

Lumpini Boxing Stadium. On Rama 4 road on a short distance from the busy Silom district you will find the Lumpini Boxing Stadium. It’s probably the best known Thai-box  stadium in the world, but not the oldest, which is the Rajadamnern, not far from Khaosan road. There are in total 7 standard Thai boxing stadiums in the Kingdom of Thailand, [...]

/ 14 May 2013 16 h 12 min

Yaowarat road and Chinatown.

Yaowarat road and Chinatown. On the western banks of the Chao Phraya river in the Thai capital Bangkok, in the city’s oldest area, you will find the busy business center better known as Sam Peng Market. You are now standing in the middle of Bangkok’s Chinatown, the main trading area for the big Chinese community, which was over 200 years [...]

/ 9 May 2013 10 h 44 min

Khaosan Road.

Khaosan Road. Located about 1 km. north of the hot tourist attraction Wat Phra Kaew and the Grand Palace, you seem to come in a different world. You just entered the world famous ” backpacker ghetto ” in which Leonardo Di Caprio drank snake blood in the blockbuster movie ‘the Beach’. This is Kkaosan road or translated ‘milled rice’ road, [...]

/ 9 May 2013 10 h 18 min

Getting some WWII history in Kanchanaburi.

Getting some WWII history in Kanchanaburi. At around 130 km. from the Thai capital of Bangkok in the west of the country, bordering Myanmar (Burma) lays the fourth biggest province of the Kingdom, Kanchanaburi or shortened by locals just as ” Kan”. This province which capital has the same name, harbors much of Thailand’s jungle and mountains, as well as [...]