Most visitors to Thailand fly into Bangkok: glistening, clean and climate controlled designer shopping only a few hundred metres from markets selling everything for almost nothing, in amongst pointed roofed temples and hundred year old villages. Bangkok has a reputation for a lot of different things but most visitors will want to see the temples, eat and shop in the markets and make time to tour the city in a canal. Unless you're a fan of your local red light district you might want to swap a trip to the seedy, now touristy, red light district in favour of some cheap pampering elsewhere.

Wat Traimit (Temple of the Golden Buddha) in Bangkok might not rate a second glance if not for its astonishing Buddha image. …

As well as being the world's largest teak building, and constructed in a lovely golden shade of the wood, this early 20th centu…

Normally fighting with elbows, kicks to the shin and knees to the soft bits is considered pretty poor form but it's all allowed…

The food, design and service on these trains are super-deluxe and serve up the mysteries of Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia in…

More than one hundred buildings, many of them brightly coloured and topped with golden spires and decorations make up this comp…
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