Bangkok: A Great Place to Be an Ex-pat
Bangkok, Thailand is an excellent city for American and European ex-pats to live. An overview of transport, and co-working spaces in the city for ex-pats.
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Thailand: Swimming with Sharks Phi Phi Island
Swim with Sharks in Beautiful Thailand By Andrew Neal There are many things that kill more people each year than sharks – dogs, cows, and lightning. Trying to follow that logic was important as a blacktip reef shark, longer than I am tall, swam towards me in the open water…
Thailand: Saving Dogs from Becoming Dinner
Thailand: At the Soi Dog Foundation in Bangkok, volunteers can help save dogs from becoming dinner. Helping out a good cause.
Best Bus Travel Tips for Southeast Asia
Bus Travel: Be prepared before you board the famous night buses for long trips in Southeast Asia.
Thailand Taboos: Things You Shouldn’t Do
Thailand’s Taboos: Beware of Bare Feet and Too Much Skin. Reflecting on Thailand’s obsessions. Taboos in Thailand include things that might surprise.
Thailand: Hanging Over Tonsai Bay
Rock Climbing in Thailand: Scaling the Limestone in Tonsai, Krabi By Eloise Horsfield My first challenge is to cross from dirt path to crag in flip flops without tumbling into the leafy precipice. And now, having admired a jaw-slacking view of beach, bay, and hunky men – because all men…
Stand-Up Paddleboard-Camping in Thailand
Bandit Camping to Paddleboard: Koh Tao, Surat Thailand. By Naomi Allard As the wind subsides, all is quiet except for the sound of the waves. Then, somewhere in the jungle above, a cicada sends out a high pitched note and moments later a symphony of critters erupts. This is my…
Close Encounters in Bangkok Thailand
But What About Your Buddha? By Hy Lyfe I had all sorts of erotic fantasies about life in Thailand ever since I first heard Murray Head’s one-hit wonder, “One Night in Bangkok.” So I was thrilled when my agent informed me that he got me a gig as a piano…
Staying with the Hmong in Thailand
In Northern Thailand, staying in a Hmong hill tribe family home. Animal sacrifices, village life, leeches and more are explored.
Thailand: Experiencing the Jungle
Thailand Living Excerpt from What the Buddha Never Taught The Heat of the Day Dissipates By Tim Ward The heat of day dissipates in the late afternoon, allowing the tin roof of my kuti to cool. This is my favourite time of day. Robe washing finished, my wet sabongs dry…
Bangkok: A Girl’s Guide
Bangkok, Thailand: A girl’s guide to getting pretty, dining, dancing and enjoying life as a girl in this exciting city and getting a manicure in Bangkok.
Thailand: Cooking in Bangkok
Cooking Thai Food in Bangkok, Learning from Local chefs By Ronald Estrada Sometimes I get bored in Bangkok (imagine that!), and sometimes I even get hungry. Fortunately, I found one solution to these problems—learning how to cook Thai food. I followed the old saying that we have in the West:…