• TRAVEL

  Flowered up in Pha Taem

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 21/11/2019

  » Pha Taem is Ubon Ratchathani's most famous national park. However, not as much known is the fact that the best time to visit this natural wonderland of the northeastern province is now.

• LIFE

  Tastes of Kuala Lumpur

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 26/07/2018

  » I love Thailand. The more I travel, the more I realise how lucky I am to have been born and raised in this country. But when it comes to durian, it's a different story.

• LIFE

  THAI flying to 7 destinations this month

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 08/09/2020

  » THAI Airways is selling one-way tickets for international flights to seven destinations in Europe and Asia this month. The special flights are intended for foreigners and Thais (especially those studying or working abroad) who need to leave the Kingdom for Munich, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Copenhagen, Taipei or Hong Kong.

• TRAVEL

  An ocean at the top of the world

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 18/07/2019

  » The wooden sign at the highest point of Phu Ta Jo claims that the mountain rises 1,300m above sea level. According to my topographic map, and judging by the vegetation, the elevation was actually more like 800-900m. But that didn't really matter, I was still on top of the world.

• THAILAND

  Fast & precarious

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 06/09/2018

  » My heart was filled with excitement as the door of the gondola lift closed and the cable car was slowly leaving the station, taking me, my friend Kent and our downhill bikes up the slope to the trailheads 1,780m above sea level. We had planned this trip for more than half-a-year, and it's happening. A few minutes from now, we would be riding the famous trails of Fujimi, in one of Japan's largest bike parks.

• TRAVEL

  Feeling the need for speed in Hong Kong

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 08/12/2016

  » Hong Kong has more mountains than Victoria Peak, that famous place every first-time visitor to the territory must go to enjoy the spectacular view of the skyscraper forests on both sides of Victoria Harbour. If you don't consider yourself an ordinary tourist but a mountain biker, remember this name: Tai Mo Shan.

• TRAVEL

  Old and new in Wuzhen

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 24/09/2015

  » It was a moonless night. In this ancient Chinese town, intricately decorated wooden houses lining both sides of a canal are roofed with black tiles that ooze an awesome feel. Sculling boats barge quietly along the waterway, passing beneath an arched bridge. The boats were loaded with swordsman, none of them seemed to be aware of the fact that they were being secretly followed by someone with the ability to move like the wind from one dark roof to another.

• OPINION

  Onwards and upwards, in an orderly line

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 11/12/2014

  » During rush hour the other day, I exited Sukhumvit MRT station and was struck by an awesome sight that filled my heart with joy and my eyes with tears. There, on the escalators leading up to the adjacent Asok BTS station, people were standing in single file to the right of the moving stairs, leaving the left side open from the bottom all the way to the very top.

• OPINION

  New year, new woes

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 04/04/2013

  » The Songkran water festival will take place again next week and more than likely we will see (as usual) in news programmes revelling tourists screaming with joy to the approaching TV camera: "I love Thailand!"

• TRAVEL

  Architecture in Astana

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 28/02/2013

  » The world has seen a number of new cities sprouting up over the past two decades. Dubai, Malaysia's Putrajaya and Myanmar's Nay Pyi Taw are among those often mentioned in news reports. However, none of them is as eccentric and out of this world as Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

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