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    Holiday happenings

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 28/11/2019

    » If you haven't decided where to go for the upcoming holidays, maybe you should consider Phrae.

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    Jurassic Park vs the weekend warrior

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 17/11/2016

    » How far have you ever travelled on your bicycle? Today let's go even farther. I'll take you all the way to the age of ancient reptiles.

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    Bangkok's new walking street

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 05/11/2020

    » Klong Ong Ang Walking Street, the latest of its kind in Bangkok, was inaugurated during Loy Krathong Festival, however, it's not just another fair-style pedestrian street with lots of food and goods.

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    Ready to roam

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 18/06/2020

    » For a lot of travel addicts residing in Thailand, with the fourth phase of the easing of pandemic control measures the situation is good enough to return to fun mode.

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    Undisturbed by time

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 20/06/2019

    » I had been to Kyoto a couple of times before. However, I had always thought of it as a city, as the former imperial capital of Japan. I didn't realise that Kyoto as a prefecture has much more to offer than the famous bamboo grove and those popular shrines and temples. Along the northern coast of the prefecture, referred to by some as "Kyoto By The Sea" nestled interesting places not much known among non-Japanese travellers. The fishing village of Ine, with its unique and well-preserved architecture, interested me most. It was the major purpose of my latest visit to the Land of the Rising Sun.

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    Enjoy the ride, but watch out for the king cobras

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 07/06/2018

    » Ban Chom Bueng Thai Literary Botanical Garden of Ratchaburi may not be a familiar name. But if you like mountain biking, this is one place you should visit.

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    The long and the short of it

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 18/01/2018

    » 'Normally, how many kilometres do you bike?" This is one of the questions people often ask me when they learn that I like to cycle. And the most exact answer I could come up with would be: "It depends."

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    Exploring Bangkok's old town

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 04/01/2018

    » With exceptionally light traffic and lovely weather, Bangkok was wonderful for biking during the recent long holiday weekend. Instead of joining the mass in the exodus out of the capital, on New Year's Eve my friends and I opted to hang around and explore the city on two wheels.

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    Gorgeous George Town

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 10/08/2017

    » I've always wanted to go see Penang. This is because every time I visited old towns in the South such as Phuket or Songkhla, I would hear stories from the past about various aspects of the relationship between those Thai towns and this Malaysian island in the Strait of Malacca.

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    Time travel, minus the DeLorean

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 27/07/2017

    » Based on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, many believe going back to the past is possible if one can travel at a speed close to that of light. But based on my experience, with due respect to the great scientist and his fans, at certain locales one can enjoy something near time travel just by doing the opposite -- going slow. The southern city of Songkhla is one such place.

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