Thailand Stories

Forget about heavy guide books or tricky to fold maps. Don’t waste time getting lost or ending up in the wrong places. Download this app for your iPhone while at home and use offline without an internet connection. Guidebooks for the iPhone are improving all the time. I wouldn’t…

Is TrueMove planning on officially releasing an iPad 3G soon? At the moment in Thailand we can only buy iPads in the grey market at places like MBK, Fortune Tower and Panthip Plaza for inflated prices. Now comes the news that TrueMove are selling microSIMs and new data packages for the iPad 3G …

One of the benefits of having a data plan with True Move is their 3G network. On the downside, it is mainly limited to locations in Bangkok and cities such as Chiang Mai, Chonburi, Phuket and Maha Sarakham. However, I had …

The story centers to five attractive girls who find themselves trapped in an unfamiliar place with a strange voice telling them that one of them has to sacrifice her life to a diabolical ritual. Struggling to survive, the girls need to reveal…

The story begins when a bus driver finds a dead girl lying in the bus. He and the bus owner hurriedly arrange to hide her body and mean to leave the dead body on the way of the bus route. Soon, the mayhem befalls as the dead girl returns as a furious ghost and…

A new translator app will be coming out soon that will allow you to converse with a local person during your next holiday in Thailand. The app is called “Converse” and allows you to have conversations in up to 51 different languages. As you can see from this picture, the screen is split in two and has two …

I have just returned from a three day trip to Trang and Satun in the South of Thailand. I was invited by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) to join them to do “Product Testing for Quality Tourists”. It sounded like fun so I jumped at the chance to go. We flew …

Our last stop on the 3 day TAT trip to the south was the Peninsuar Botanical Gardens in Amphoe Muang, Trang. The highlight here was the impressive canopy walkway that takes you up to the tree-tops. It is open every day from 8.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. It was built back in 2003, with six…

From the mainland of Trang we took a speedboat for the short trip to the beautiful island of Koh Muk. Our destination here was Koh Mook Sivalai Beach Resort. This beachfront property has a total of 36 villa guestrooms. The white sandy beaches were complimented by the crystal clear waters. A great and safe place for …

As part of the TAT trip I am on, we have to do site inspections of some hotels along the way. This first one by the sea in Amphoe Sikao is called Anantara Sikao Resort & Spa in Trang This is the view from the deluxe suite. The swimming pool seen …

After all the stress of red shirt protests over the last month, I was happy to get an invitation from the Tourism Authority of Thailand to join them on a 3 day trip to Trang and Satun in the South of …

At about 2 p.m. this afternoon, I left the main red shirt stage at Ratchaprasong Intersection and headed East towards Chitlom. I had heard that riot police were gathering there. By this time, the red shirts had already started to use trucks to block the six lane road. This is the scene that…

These are a couple of pictures that I took in the area behind the red shirt stage where the leaders hang out.  Here is a picture of their good luck shrine with a few Buddha images. Take note of the…

The red shirt protests have been going on in Bangkok for 4-5 days now. Countless thousands of protesters have been camped out along the Royal Avenue. The news hasn’t received that much attention yet in the international press, mainly because there hasn’t been any violence. …

One of the most important events in the Thai Buddhist calendar is Makha Bucha Day (sometimes spelled Magha Puja). It takes place on the full moon day of the third lunar month which is usually late February or early March. This year it was today, 28th February 2010. Like many Thai people, I was up early this morning before …

Title: Gong Pan Kreuk-Kreun Tor Ta-Haan Keuk-Kak Director: Note Chernyim Starring: Buddha Bless, Warapat Petchsatit, Note Chernyim Website: http://www.phranakornfilm.com Release Date in Thailand: 25 February 2010 Jiwon, a young man is enlisted into the army where he meets his new and strange friends, especially Yuri, the girl that he has a crush on. Jiwon …

Thai newly wed scuba divers, groom Narongchon Chomsa (L) and his new bride, Somying Chomsa show their marriage license during an underwater wedding ceremony, in Trang province, south of Bangkok. (Reuters) More Thailand pictures can be found at www.ThaiPhotoBlogs.com .

(Would be extremely difficult to get these two mixed up - but Mrs Clampton did) Due to the positive feedback from the last blog “The Legendary Edith Clampton (Mrs)” , I think it’s only fair to write up a part 2 and include some of the readers’ responses – some of which are in concern to Edith’s complaints in the …

Whenever we have new foreign teachers at the school, I always take them out to a restaurant as part of their orientation. This is partly to introduce them to my favourite Thai food on a menu. But, I also want to point out to them some of the finer points …

The rainy season has already come to an end. There has been no rain the last two weeks in Samut Prakan. However, this was the view this morning in Paknam. This is not rain water. This is sea water that swamps the city during the daily high tides during November every year. The Chao Phraya River is at…