Thai Festivals & Events Thai Photo Blogs by Richard Barrow
The River Kwai Bridge Festival will be held from 25th Nov to 6th Dec 2011. Highlight of the festival is the Light & Sound Show, which tells the history of the Death Railway and the Bridge over the River Kwai. The entrance fee is 20 baht including the show that is performed each day at 7:00 p.m. and takes about 45 minutes. It is a special year because of the Celebration of His Majesty the King’s 84th Birthday. That...
Another place on my “Relatively Unknown Thailand” list is the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi Province. Although this temple (real name Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno) is barely mentioned in most guidebooks, it is fast becoming one of the major attractions of Kanchanaburi. The abbot, Phra Acharn Phusit, pictured above, has been caring for abandoned tigers ever since 1999. The mother of the first cub he took in had been killed by poachers. By that time, Phra Acharn Phusit was already known...
Wat Tham Sua and Wat Tham Khao Noi with rice fields in the foreground When we first set up ThaiTravelBlogs.com, it was our intention on not only giving you an insight into Thai life and culture, but also showing you a bit of “Unseen Thailand”. After all, it has been the long-running mandate of Paknam Web to “Promote Thailand to the World”. If you already know Thailand, then we want you to love it more. If you have never...
It is very difficult now for me to conjure up mental images of what I thought Thailand would like like before I first arrived here. It was back in 1992 when I first started thinking about Thailand. I was in Australia at the time and coming to the end of my one year work visa. (I say “work visa” but I don’t really want to give you the misconception that I was actually working. I had bought myself a station wagon...
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