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Smiling Thai guide welcome visitors to the Jim Thompson home in Bangkok

He Went For A Walk in the Jungle

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

There is an air of mystery about the Jim Thompson home in Bangkok.

Destinations: Thailand | Bangkok
Topics: Travel | Adventure | 20th Century History | Art | Traditions | Ecotourism | Culture | Economy | Photography | People | Working Abroad | Fashion | Shopping | Architecture
Statue of Phra Phrom, the Thai representation of the Hindu creation god Brahma, at Erawan Shrine

Bedazzled by Bangkok (1)

ARIEL ALEXIS NOBLE - arnobs66 [1,232]

Bangkok, Asia's night entertainment capital...

Destinations: Thailand | Bangkok
Topics: Culture | Travel | People | Adventure | Photography | Religion | Art | Traditions | Ancient History | Architecture
Lovely women in traditional costume served our Loy Krathong dinner.

Loy Krathong

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

Loy Krathong is a special festival celebration in Thailand in November. Float your sorrows away and release your hopes and dreams into the heavens.

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Himalayas, Leh

Southern-East Asia and Central Asia experience in photographs

Olga Mo - peremeny [55]

RADIOTRAVEL is the big long-distance and long-term journey. We travel in countries of Southern-East Asia and Central Asia. Aim of this project - creation of online blog-book. During the journey we...

Destinations: Karnataka | Himalayas | Ko Tao | Mumbai | Hoi An | Guilin | Himachal Pradesh | Kathmandu | Hangzhou | Beijing | Bangkok | Kerala | Ninh Binh | Nepal | Hanoi | Vietnam | New Delhi | Varanasi | India | Ladakh | Zhejiang | China | Port Blair | Thailand | Kochi(India) | Goa
Topics: Travel | People | Photography | Traditions | Food
This fruit seller had a business on her boat

The Venice of Asia

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

I could have been in Venice. Bangkok is a city of canals and waterways.

Destinations: Thailand | Bangkok
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Animals | 20th Century History | Traditions | Ecotourism | Culture | Food | Economy | People | Religion | Fashion | Agriculture | Shopping | Nature | Architecture
Tone Deaf in Bangkok

Ghosts in the City of Angels

Tone Deaf in Bangkok - tonedeafinbangkok [170]

It doesn't matter that Janet Brown is not superstitious. When living in Bangkok, she learns that believing in ghosts is not an option. It's an inescapable part of immersing herself in the local culture.

Destinations: Thailand | Bangkok
Topics: Culture | Literature | Religion | Traditions

Traditional Thai Teak House

Jan Tomasiewicz - massagelondon [142]

The traditional Thai teak house represents a style of living that is almost absent from Bangkok these days - with citywide modernisation, it is hard to find older houses that are still in use...

Destinations: Bangkok
Topics: Culture | Travel | People | Art | Nature | Traditions | For Kids | Architecture | Ecotourism
Ban Chang, Thailand. Two students perform traditional dance to celebrate Loy Kratong. In their left hands they hold a lotus flower containing a candle.

Loy Krathong

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

As with many traditional festivals, the Thai festival of Loy Krathong, known as Yi Peng in the north, has many conflicting explanations of its purposes. Is it a Brahmanic rite honoring the dead? A...

Destinations: Thailand | Bangkok
Topics: Festivals | Traditions

Thailand madly in love with Valentine's Day

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

BANGKOK, Feb 13, 2003 - Thailand is madly in love with Valentine's Day. Love is not just in the air in this highly consumerist society - it's in the shops, bakeries, street stalls, hotels and...

Destinations: Thailand | Bangkok
Topics: People | Traditions

Bless This House

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

I have witnessed these invasions before. It is 10 a.m.; I am still in bed; but the house is filled with multiple foreign voices and the smell of food. "Thousand of people are here!" insists my Thai...

Destinations: Thailand | Bangkok
Topics: Culture | People | Traditions
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