Yes, Thailand Celebrates July 4th! By Ronald Estrada I love my new life in paradise: Bangkok, Thailand. Now, I finally get to do life’s little pleasures — those things I always wanted to do, but was just too busy working to do. These days, I regularly write while seated on…
Thailand: Bruce Marsland travels to the remote village of Laem Mae Phim, Thailand to work on a volunteer program rescuing endangered sea turtles.
Brian Peters shows that in-flight theft and other rip-offs are a lot more common than you might think. By Brian Peters [Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Brian Peters’ award-winning blog: NoDebtWorldTravel.com] In a previous post, I talked about a flight from Tokyo to Paris where someone stole over…
Sitting, Walking and Living Like a Monk in Isan, Thailand Bill Reyland writes about his book Sons of Isan While this story took place in Thailand, it is not just a book about Thailand. It is a book about adventure, transformation and the renewal of spirit. It’s about intentionally ripping…
By David Rich After a half dozen trips to Thailand it can get boring, except for a single friend of mine who travels yearly for the adventure of serial Thai ladies. For him it seems to never get boring. But for someone who goes to Thailand every year for a…
Beach lovers will be in heaven here in Thailand! By Mike Smith Koh Samui I had been to Thailand many times before but had yet to visit Koh Samui. I put that right after friends said that they loved the place so much they had bought a house there and…
Learning Kickboxing in Thailand By Leah Welch The motorcyclists were bees darting between each other, inside an intricate honeycomb, filling the entire crevice of the city. Bangkok, Phuket, Thailand was a flower I was ready to pluck. Everything was in constant flux from roads to beaches and the in between,…
Baan Dada Children’s Home making a difference “One thing I didn’t expect was how happy the kids were. They were always laughing and playing with us. These kids have nothing except the clothes on their backs and yet they are so happy simply because they have a safe place to…
Thailand: a school for elephant trainers in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Bangkok, Thailand: Spending the day in Lumpini Park watching people jogging, boating, doing aerobics and relaxing.
Adventure writer Antonio Graceffo began his eight month long odyssey by living with forest monks, studying kick boxing in Thailand’s last Muay Thai Temple. He rode his bicycle to Burma, walked to the top of Chiang Mai’s tallest peak, and was the first to attempt to trace the Doi Saket…
Hangin’ with the Hill Tribes in Northern Thailand By Terry Braverman “Hello……hello….” The only English word most hill tribe people speak, it’s the initial greeting upon entering their villages, usually said to draw attention to the handcrafts for sale. The “I-sell-you-buy” association can be transcended in two ways. If you’re…
