Helpful & Interesting Links

A work in progress, as you can see. We'll be adding new sites as fast as we can. If you'd like to recommend a site, or find one of these sites unworthy, please do e-mail us. We haven't been to many of the listed places, and can't vouch for the accuracy of any of the information. If you find a great place to stay or visit anywhere in Thailand, please let us know! All links will open in a new window.


Thailand

General info for travelers
  • Thaipro.com has links to more English-language sites about Thailand than we'd care to try counting.
  • Girl About the Globe is a dandy resource for women traveling solo: a good place to get a few hints before you commit to an itinerary here.
  • A couple of thick books worth of information on just about anything a visitor might wonder about is waiting for you at lostinthailand.com.
  • Another 11,171 (their count) links about Thailand at e-thailand.com.
  • And a further, uncounted collection of Thailand links is at ThailandWebDirectory.com.
  • Lonely Planet Thorn Tree Thailand branch bulletin board with some useful and some amusing posts from travelers in the Kingdom
  • The site thailandroad.com offers engagingly personal accounts of a lot of the better places to visit in Thailand. One of those rare sites where you think you'd like to meet the person who wrote it, in this case Bangkok Joe. Or, as they describe themselves: "Thailand alternative travel, leisure and traveler tales, Insider information on the best of Thailand's alternative and small resorts, destinations, cultures, and adventure: resort and restaurant reviews, travel stories, interviews and local insight on cultural events."
  • Australia-New Zealand Women's Group Bangkok Guide: informative site for Bangkok expats of interest to visitors, too.
  • thaiwebsites.com has a very extensive, easy-to-search catalog of English-language websites about Thailand.
  • Sawadee.com has lots of ads & rates for the bigtime destinations: Bangkok,Phuket, Pattaya (yeah, well), and quite a few of the more moderately-visited places.
  • Escape to Thailand, Dennis Peacock's blog authored from up North in Phayao, gives a much more personal view, and covers an interesting assortment of topics--destinations, flying lessons, travel tips.
Times & numbers
  • Bangkok Bank foreign exchange rates
  • Royal State Railways of Thailand timetables and photos
Culture & People
Islands & Beaches
Pattaya
  • Lots of well-organized information, with plenty of the better places to stay can be found at Lost in Thailand 's Pattaya travel guide. They cover the rest of the country pretty well, too.
  • Get away from city bustle and l eave the land behind with Gulf Charters Thailand, who arrange cruises throughout the Gulf on a variety of good-looking sailing yachts.
Phuket
  • Phuket-phuket.com a locally-generated site with all sorts of information for the visitor.
  • Phuket.com Another site for the general tourist
Popular Inland Destinations
Kanchanaburi
  • Kanchanaburi-info.com provides considerable information on the province of the Bridge over the River Kwai and the world's smallest mammal, in English and German.
  • Sawadee.com plenty of info on transport, accomodations, etc.
Ayuthaya

It must be possible to get bored with the city that was Siam's capital from 1353 to 1767, but in 40 years of visits, we haven't. Atmosphere, space, scenery... it's all there. The one-baht ferry from the railway station has gone up to two baht, but Phae Krung Kao Restaurant's food is still great, and Uncle Than's still running his boat. Go!

  • Deva Deep has over 100 photos of all Ayuthaya's major temples, and lots more on other aspects of Thailand.
  • A good, brief (scholarly, too) introduction to the city is at everything2.com
  • Q.T. Luong's terragalleria.com also has some good photos of temples.
Offbeat Destinations
Sangkhlaburi, Kanchanaburi Province
  • Travelfish gives a good intro to the quiet little town of Sangkhlaburi, up away near Three Pagodas Pass, at the head of the big reservoir. Good for canoeing, birdwatching, al sorts of stuff that doesn't need crowds and bright lights.
  • P Guesthouse Our good friends and vastly experienced travelers Richard and Barbara had very good things to say about this place--the welcome, the accomodations, the food. You can see even more by clicking here.
  • The Burmese Inn got a thumbs-up from visitor Roger.
Buriram
  • Khao Phanom Rung a beautiful Khmer sanctuary
Nong Khai
  • Big Snake Guesthouse a comfortable guesthouse in rural Phonphisai district near the Mekong River
  • A lot closer to the railway station, and looking like the sort of place that's getting hard to find, is the Take It Easy Bar. If you get there before us, drop us a line to say how you like it
Transport & Travel Info
Diving
  • Larry's Dive: diving trips & a good hangout on Sukhumvit 22 in Bangkok

Elsewhere in Asia

Burma
  • Allmyanmar.com A pretty comprehensive and, as far as we can see, genuinely independent site.
China
  • China Travel Service: China Tours and China Hotels - Small group and private China tour packages and China-wide discount hotel reservation service, and of equal interest, good, succinct descriptions of a lot of places we'd like to see, like Jinghong in the Dai (Thai) Sipsongpanna region, and, in the shadow of Jade Dragon Mountain, Lijiang.
India
General
  • Maps of India good info on all sorts of places
  • Hill stations and hill country: http://www.indyahills.com/