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Roaming in the gloaming
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 05/11/2020
» It was pouring like crazy. I was lucky to find refuge in a noodle shop before getting soaked. It had rained twice since the morning. So far, including the days when I was on Koh Phayam, I never got a chance to shoot -- or even see -- a clear blue sky.
Flower festival returns to Chiang Mai
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 05/11/2020
» The Agricultural Extension Department in Chiang Mai has joined hands with the Mae Rim District Office and Smart Farmer Group to launch "Flower Blooming Festival In Muang Kaeo" in Mae Rim district.
The navel of the Mekong
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 29/10/2020
» The partly cloudy sky gradually turned orange and red after sunset. The twilight colours, which reflected on the Mekong River, provided a great contrast to the dark green mountain ranges in Laos and grass dotted with white flowers on the bank of the river in Thailand's Bueng Kan province.
Southeast Asia's birding bubble
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 08/10/2020
» Normally at this time of year, Puwish Lenvaree would station himself in the forests of West Papua, an Indonesian province on New Guinea Island. Over the past three years, he routinely spent much of the latter half of each year on New Guinea and nearby islands such as Waigeo and Halmahera mainly because it's the mating season for birds-of-paradise, which occurs only in that part of the world.
Explore hidden gems outside Bangkok
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 24/09/2020
» The other day when I learned that the Tourism Society, an academic network of communities that run tourism operations, was planning an outing to Ban Sala Daeng Nuea and nearby sites of interest, my heart leapt with joy. This Mon community by the Chao Phraya River is one where the residents still cherish their cultural heritage. Located in Pathum Thani's Sam Khok district, which is only 37km or so from Pak Kret, Nonthaburi, where I live, Ban Sala Daeng Nuea and its namesake temple are among those places in adjacent provinces that I've long wanted to visit but somehow never got the chance to.
Not quite a staycation
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 27/08/2020
» Dying to get back to nature but national parks are so far away? Longing for an outdoor experience but you don't think you have enough time?
Museum Lampang opens officially
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 20/08/2020
» Museum Lampang has officially opened after a soft launch in January last year.
Otop fair has all you could want
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 13/08/2020
» If you're no longer thrilled by online shopping and mass-produced goods, here's a chance to once again enjoy the shop-till-you-drop experience in immense halls full of not just exquisite hand-made products from across the Kingdom but also fascinating and uncommon travel ideas.
Get on your bike in Rayong
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 30/07/2020
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand will organise the "Happy Bike Rai Covid" programme in Rayong on Saturday and Sunday.
Rediscovering Thailand
Guru, Kankanok Wichiantanon, Published on 24/07/2020
» With international flights still banned and travel bubble arrangements likely to be delayed, many local tour operators have reimagined tour experiences that they provide, with the local traveller in mind. They aim to offer new perspectives of places that locals might already know of. There are also several tour operators who have always been offering exciting travel packages targeted at locals who wish to explore Thailand's great outdoors. Here are a few examples of tour operators who seek to bring locals to places, which might have been marketed mainly to tourists in the past, to see them with new eyes.