Thai Festivals & Events Thai Photo Blogs by Richard Barrow
The highly acclaimed Siam Niramit show in Bangkok has now opened in the southern beach resort of Phuket. Now foreign tourists can enjoy the sun, surf and sand during the day and be entertained at a world-class performance during the evening. These days many people skip Bangkok and fly straight to Phuket. The opening of Siam Niramet Phuket over the new year holiday gives them even less reason to do a stopover in Bangkok. Siam Niramit Phuket is split...
Beginning in early December, 2011, visitors to Chiang Mai can participate in a two-hour tour of the ancient city, while gliding on a Segway Personal Transporter. Segway Gibbon™ is being introduced in Chiang Mai by the same people who bring Flight of the Gibbon jungle zip line tours, homestays and adventure tours to Thailand. Each Chiang Mai glided tour is guided by their glide guys and is limited to eight participants in each two-hour segment. Each tour will glide...
On Sunday 4th September 2011, Bangkok residents will be getting a new green space called Phayathai Pirom Park. The park is located near Phramongkutklao Hospital, between the expressway and Samsen Canal. On the opening day of the park, the “100 Bangkok Big Trees Book” will also be unveiled. It is a chance for readers and nature lovers alike to view the 100 biggest, tallest, most beautiful and most precious trees around Bangkok in the form of a book. These...
Indian’s highest paid actor Amitabh Bachchan is now officially the first Bollywood star to have his very own wax figure produced and put on display at Madame Tussauds Bangkok –Southeast Asia’s first location of the world’s best loved wax museum. The grand launch ceremony of this wax likeness took place on August 23, 2011 at Madame Tussauds Bangkok on the 6th Floor of Siam Discovery Center. It was presided over by His Excellency Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, the Ambassador of...
According to newspaper reports, Pattaya will soon be getting its first purpose built dolphin world. Called Pattaya Dolphin World & Resort, it is being built in Huay Yai district to the south of Pattaya City (see map below). According to Pattaya People, Dolphin World will be completed by December 2011 “with attractions including adventure zones for all ages, rock climbing, shooting galleries, go cart racing and bungee jumping”. Map showing location of Pattaya Dolphin World & Resort:
The grand opening of the Mekong Walking Street recently took place in Nakhon Phanom, which is in the Northeast of Thailand. On the last Friday of each month, a section of Sunthon Wichit Road is closed and turned into a walking street. People will be able to walk along the road in the late afternoon to enjoy views of the Mekhong river and Laos on the opposite bank. In the coolness of the evening they will be able to...
A new tourist attraction has recently opened in Ang Thong Province. It is called Anake Farm Floating Market (ตลาดน้ำเอนกฟาร์ม) and is about three kilometers West of Ang Thong town. According to the Bangkok Post, this project was the brainchild of Anake Sikhiewsod who invested 20 million baht into the floating market. The official launch was a couple of weeks ago and you can watch the video of this event by scrolling down. Just don’t forget that when they invite...
The beachside resort of Hua Hin will soon have two new floating markets. The first to open wil be Sam Phan Nam Hua Hin Floating Market (above) on 15th July 2011. Then on 12th August the smaller Hua Hin Floating Market (below) will officially open. Both of these markets are on Soi Hua Hin 112, about 6 kilometers from the town center. Sam Phan Nam Hua Hin Floating Market is apparently being built by the same people as Ayothaya...
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