Its Time For A New Adventure
Welcome to Thailand
Friendly and food-obsessed, hedonistic and historical, cultured and curious, with a smile as golden as the glittering temples and tropical beaches of the region, Thailand tempts tourists.
A Bountiful Table
Thai cuisine, which is adored around the world, expresses fundamental aspects of Thai culture: it is generous, warm, refreshing and relaxed. New, local ingredients depend on Thai dishes: pungent lemongrass, searing chillies and plump seafood. The four fundamental flavours are built around a varied national menu: spicy, sweet, salty and sour. Roving appetites go to Bangkok noodle shacks on eating trips,
Fields & Forests
Thailand’s rural heartland, a mix of rice paddies, tropical forests and villages where life is dominated by the rhythms of the agricultural clock, lies outside the cluttered cities and towns. The forests and fields bump up in the north against toothy blue mountains decorated with silvery waterfalls and deep caves with honeycombs. Scraggy limestone cliffs poke out of the cultivated cliffs down south,
Sacred Spaces
In this Buddhist country, the celestial world is a near confidant, and religious devotion is colourful and ubiquitous. Both the rural and the urban landscape are framed by glowing temples and golden Buddhas. To honor the resident spirits, ancient banyan trees are ceremoniously wrapped in sacred cloth, fortune-bringing shrines decorate humble homes as well as monumental malls,
Sand Between Your Toes
Thailand is a tropical getaway fit for all, whether hedonist or hermit, prince or pauper, with a luxuriously long coastline (actually, two coastlines) and over 1400 jungle-topped islands anchored in azure waters. The coast of the country is one giant playground, with plenty going on wherever the sea meets the sand. You can snorkel in the gentle waters off Ko Lipe, dive around Ko Taoo with whale sharks,
