Featured Stories

Eco-tourism in Thailand Lisu Lodge EarthCare Camp Travel Prediction for 2008 Wild about Khao Yai National Park Monkeys Leading the Blind Working Holidays Trek on the Wild Side Mangroves, cocks and sea-gypsies Cruising in Thailand Khum Lanna Simple Joy in Champasak Explaining Thai Enigmas Give 'Em Enough Rope Overnight with friendly strangers Cruising the Mekong River Return to the Land of the Happy Dawn Buoyant Party Finding China at Xi'an Green Adventure Festival Elephant Shows The Fruity Month Rocket Festival A Dripping New Year Frozen Eccentricities The Lost Cities The Resplendence of Life A Hilltribe Experience Elephants in Thailand Chulakathin

Another Green Project in Chiang Mai
With the enthusiastic support of locals, volunteers, students and government officials, the first tree planting ceremony of the Himmapaan Foundation marked an impressive start for an innovative reforestation project. ...continue

Eco-tourism in Thailand
By day, you trek through the richly forested Kaeng Krachan National Park on the lookout for hornbills and gibbons, cleansing your lungs and rejuvenating your senses with sunlight and smog-free air. Around sunset, you wash away all that sweat with a swim in the ocean, and later, there’s a safari to spot nocturnal species such as elephants, leopards and wild cattle...continue

Lisu Lodge EarthCare Camp

Lisu Lodge EarthCare Camp is a 5-day camp for children 11-16 years old. It offers a unique opportunity to experience a combination of self-development/discovery, environmental responsibility and conservation...continue

Travel predictions are usually about destinations, but that was just too predictable for us, so we decided to delve into different activities, movies and even states of mind on the road...continue

Wild about Khao Yai National Park

Visitors tell some wild stories about Khao Yai National Park, like seeing jackals chasing down a deer, like herds of elephants lumbering down the main road, like gibbons performing high-wire circus acts up in the rainforest’s big top and, during a night safari, seeing a Malayan porcupine waddling along the roadside...continue

Monkeys Leading the Blind

The monkey scampered down a power pole and scurried past a convenience store, a gold shop, and a tailor. Then it snuck into a Chinese pharmacy. Behind the counter, the macaque snatched several bottles of cough medicine off the shelf and ran back outside, where it drank one of the bottles. Several minutes later, the monkey fell asleep on the street. A car swerved around it, narrowly averting a head-on collision with a motorcycle, but ran over its tail...continue

Working Holidays

With a long, bamboo pole I’m stabbing at a nest of red ants high up in the branches of a mango tree. As the pole pierces the nest, a few of them rain down on me. They’re huge and they sting my hands and arms with their bites. Where I come from, ants can ruin a picnic by forming a freight train to raid the potato salad. But that’s about it. They do not look like they just crawled in from the set of a sci-fi movie. Nor do they bite...continue

Trek on Wild Side

We’re sitting around a fire inside a house of thatched bamboo up in a Lahu village in northern Thailand. Across the leaping flames, the middle-aged medicine man of this village of 100 households is telling our guide why the Lahu do not hunt gibbons...continue

Mangroves, cocks and sea-gypsies

When people think of Koh Lanta they envisage sandy beaches, a turquoise sea and soft sand. But Lanta is not only that. We chartered a tour with the Swedish tour operator, on a full day ‘Unknown Lanta’ trip by minivan...continue

Cruising in Thailand

The sea surrounding the Andaman Islands holds a unique beauty. It is nature with no frontier. Picturesque islands and stone formations rising from the azure water dominate the view above the surface of the sea while the underworld of living creatures is fascinating. For river cruise, Chao Phraya River or the River of Kings is considered the birthplace of Thai civilization. Cruise along this historic river from the modern Bangkok to the ancient capital of Ayuthaya.

Coverage on Cruising in Thailand
	June Bahtra - The Magic of Phang Nga Bay, Phuket
	Mekhala - Journey on the River of Kings
	Suwan Macha - The Island Escape

Khum Lanna

Lanna was the name of a prosperous kingdom that occupied Northern Thailand and parts of present day Myanmar and Laos. Founded in the 13th century, the name means 'Land of a million rice fields'...continue

Simple Joy in Champasak

I arrived in Champasak district when the sun was about to bid farewell to everyone. It was just timely because the mild pinkish sunlight further intensified the beauty of the French colonial mansions that stood arrogantly amidst the coconut trees in this little hamlet...continue

Explaining Thai Enigmas

For newcomers or old hands Thailand poses a plethora of questions: Why the gaudy paintings on the sides of buses? What are those strange tattoos supposed to do? How about the national obsessions with soap operas, fortune-tellers, and comedy cafes? And what's up with those blind street musicians anyway?...continue

Give 'Em Enough Rope

Mild-mannered reporter Cameron Cooper gets out from behind his desk, heads for Krabi’s Railay beach and cowers in the face of danger on his first rock climbing expedition.

The cave ended at a large opening about halfway up the mountainside. The vantage from Railay’s Thaiwand Wall was high and spectacular; a carpet of trees, sand and sheer hillsides...continue

Overnight with friendly strangers

When travelers in the early days looked for a place to crash after a long journey, they would try to rush to the nearest town before nightfall or, if they were in luck, they might find a farmhouse, got invited by the kind farmers to stay overnight in their house, or a barn in some case. This is when they get a chance to mingle with the locals and fetch the information about their routings before they set off for their next journey...continue

Cruising the Mekong River

At 4,180 kilometers long, Mekhong River is the 10th longest river in the world. Your cruise 170 kilometres south to the Cambodian border will take you to places of great beauty and of immense historical significance.

Coverage on Mekong River
	Vat Phou
	Luang Say Lodge

Return to the Land of the Happy Dawn

It was a warm sunny morning. Under the canopy of a big tree, a group of ladies, most of them in late 50s, were busy snapping up souvenirs before boarding the tram bus. They were on a ride back in time to the lost ancient capital of the Siamese (now Thai) Kingdom, Si Satchanalai. This small city was once the most significant outpost of the Sukhothai era, the first kingdom of Siam -- 'The Land of the Happy Dawn.' This small peaceful town is now a lush green park decorated with Buddhist stone edifices...continue

Krabi: Frozen Eccentricities

Angkor Wat: The Lost Cities

Ruins fascinate people. We fly halfway around the world to marvel at the achievements and mysteries of defunct civilizations, and shake our heads in disbelief that there were predecessors capable of producing structures that would present an insurmountable challenge to modern architects and engineers. We stand humbled...continue

A Hilltribe Experience

Thailand's northern mountains, at the very edge of the Himilayan ridge, are home to more than twenty hilltribe groups totaling 500,000 people with their own unique clothing, food, architecture and social traditions.

A visit to these friendly folk can be an eye-opening and healthy adventure for those willing to make the hike.

Coverage on A Hilltribe Experience
	Lisu Lodge: The Edge of Another World
	Hilltribes in Northern Thailand

Elephant in Thailand

The Thai elephant, once the most revered creature in traditional culture, is struggling for survival against a shrinking forest, a growing population and ivory poachers. But the Thai government, and a group of NGOs, are making efforts to reverse this trend.

Coverage on Elephants in Thailand
	Man and Elephant: A Winning Partnership
	The Elephant Village
	Thai Mahouts
	Elephant--National Symbol of Thailand