TRAVEL

Rural retreat is closer than you think

Life, Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 16/02/2012

» Huge rice paddies span to the horizon without any skyscrapers to interrupt the scenery. A farmer drives his tractor across a muddy field, followed by hundreds of white egrets looking for prey in the upturned soil. A housewife cuts fresh vegetables grown in her backyard for breakfast. Muslim kids run along the side of a clean canal while an angler waits patiently for his catch.