Travel Reads > Thailand
• A living zoo? On the Surin Islands [Travelling Troubadour]
“In the Andaman Sea, a visit to the Moken raises an uncomfortable question: who is really on display?”
• How travel makes me feel more like myself [Thoughtful Travel]
“Reflections after a week in Bangkok.”
• Travelling the troubled but beautiful Thailand/Myanmar (Burma) border over the last 40 years [Thailand Construction]
• Songkhla’s hidden charm: the town poised to put southern Thailand on the tourist map [South China Morning Post]
“In southern Thailand, the erstwhile Sultanate of Singora existed as a melting pot of Thai, Malay and Hokkien cultures. Its successor carries this idiosyncratic fusion into the present day.”
• My beach paradise is somewhere most tourists ignore as they pass through (archive) [Traveller]
“If you’ve been to Koh Tao, chances are you’ve been to Chumphon. Transited through it, in any case. To you, it would have been little more than a bus stop, a train station and the Lomprayah pier, but to me, it’s paradise.”
• Khon Kaen [Sam Mendelsohn]
“Nice modern city, fun and charming, great food, temples, cafes, art galleries, Sinxay, and more!”
• Ko Chang keeps its soul despite ongoing tourism challenges and a nearby border conflict [Thai Island Quest]
“Some thoughts after revisiting my personal favorite of Thailand’s five largest islands.”
• Sukhumvit under siege: A bar, a coup, and a very bad idea – Bangkok, 1992 [qbarandrew]
• Wong Kar-wai’s Bangkok: The sites of “In the Mood for Love” [draft punk]
“A love letter to memory, diaspora, and Bangkok’s Chinatown.”
