Thailand Stories

This iPhone app for the Thai Highway Police has been designed to help you in case you find yourself in an accident while travelling in Thailand. The map on the first tab marks where you are and then all the Highway Police stations in your area. For each one you will find contact…

Darkest Isan (where decent thais fear to tread), Part Six I first hit Mukdahan 12 years ago, arrived at the bus station, took a tuk tuk through the town along Mekong road past the Indo-Chinese market, thought this looks interesting I must really visit this place someday, arrived at the ferry port …

(Victoria Point) Well, since the area is full of foreigners getting stamps back into the Land of Noodle Soup & Nose-jobs, Aranya Prathet and it’s neighboring cross-border town of Cambodia’s Poipet happily secured most of the first of this two part blog. Now, if Cambodia’s sombrero carrying urchin beggars (or actually cheap holey brolleys), Macau …

“Forget that ear-splitting karaoke on overnight buses and take in the countryside at a leisurely pace on a Thai train.” Westerners certainly have more of a love for trains than most of the locals in Thailand, the latter of whom consider such mode of transport as almost prehistoric – then again, I guess some of the trains operating actually are! While tripping around Thailand though, it’s almost a must, …

(Below is a rough translation of a report in the Khao Sod newspaper on 8 Feb) Former ladyboy monk (abbot) Je Dao of Sri Boon Reung temple in the northern province of Lamphun, has quickly and quietly disrobed. In ladyboy circles, Je Dao had become well-known for changing into a skirt and bra and sneaking out at night to discotheques. …