Bangkok
Cities
Southeast Asia travel
Thailand travel
Travel
Bangkok photo roundup
Bangkok is a city I’ve been to numerous times, but which I actually disliked on my first visit. Since then, I’ve grown to enjoy this noisy, modern, scruffy, shiny metropolis. Bangkok is full of history and modern consumption with its grand palace and temples and sleek skyscrapers, a thriving river and smelly klong canals (on […]
Read More
Cities
Southeast Asia travel
Thailand travel
Travel
Five Bangkok attractions to check out
One of my most-visited cities in Asia is Bangkok, which I’ve been to numerous times both for travel and for short stopovers en route to other countries. But I actually hated Bangkok the first time I visited it, which was at the end of a 3-week journey through Southeast Asia. It seemed too loud, dirty, […]
Read More
Southeast Asia travel
Thailand travel
Travel
Watch live Muay Thai for free in Bangkok
Thailand is famous for a few things, with Muay Thai or Thai kickboxing being one of them. Known as the “art of eight limbs” due to the prominent use of elbows and knees in striking, muay thai is a violent but beautiful martial art that might be tough to practice, but fun to watch. Across […]
Read More
Museums
Travel
Asia’s top history museums
Asia is a continent with thousands of years of history, with several of the oldest civilizations in the world. So it is not surprising that there are some great history museums in the region. While most people know about the Louvre, the British Museum and the Smithsonian museums, Asian museums don’t have similar name recognition, […]
Read More
Museums
Southeast Asia travel
Thailand travel
Travel
Visiting Bangkok National Museum
Bangkok is visited by millions of tourists every year, but museums are probably not at the top of the list. However, Thailand is an old country with a lot of history and culture, which is reflected by the Bangkok National Museum, the country’s main history museum. Located near the Grand Palace, the Bangkok National Museum […]
Read More
Cities
Southeast Asia travel
Thailand travel
Travel
Bangkok’s shrine on a “hill,” the Golden Mount
Bangkok is a city with a ton of things to see, eat and do. But one thing you can’t really do is hike because Bangkok is flat and has no hills. The closest activity to a hike is to climb up the Golden Mount at Wat Saket. This is a small, man-made hill that was […]
Read More
Southeast Asia travel
Thailand travel
Travel
Bangkok’s Chrao Phraya River
The Chao Phraya River curves along Bangkok, bisecting the older, western part of Thonburi from the more populated and bustling eastern part. If you plan to go to places like the Grand Palace, Wat Pho, Wat Arun or Khao San Road, you’ll probably take a boat on the Chao Phraya. Boat ferries run along […]
Read More