off the beaten track Thailand

A few tips on how to get the best out of your small group tour to Southeast Asia

Undoubtedly a beautiful island and undoubtedly far less developed than Koh Chang but if you’re considering a visit we’d probably recommend sooner rather than later as it is developing fast

Favourite Southeast Asian hotels Excuses for the slightly deceptive title – it works better for SEO purposes – and our list is not in any way intended to be our all time favourite Southeast Asian hotels, but rather a rundown on some favourite new spots we’ve added recently to our range of small group tours. Obviously, new hotels and resorts…

Prachinburi Although located a short drive northeast of Bangkok, the eastern Thai province of Prachinburi is completely overlooked by foreign visitors and indeed largely ignored by locals yet, as we discovered on a recent Thailand family tour, Prachin has plenty of fascinating sites to offer. A large chunk of the forested mountains of World Heritage Khao Yai National Park lies…

Community Based Tourism Projects Recent years have seen the spread of such excellent schemes across the length and breadth of Thailand covering a wide range of activities such as homestays and village visits, hiking, handicrafts and of course cookery. Schemes are typically organised on a village or even family level and provide a welcome contrast to the well-established tourism sites…

Thailand Isan Tour Our Thailand Isan Tour, taking you overland from Bangkok to Ubon Ratchathani in the far east of the country, can be booked as a stand-alone tour – perhaps followed by a few days on an island, making it up to a 12-day trip for those with less time available. Alternatively, this northeastern Thailand section forms the first…

Si Thep Ancient City Si Thep ancient city, located in central Thailand’s Phetchabun Province, was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list in September of this year – 2023. While it wasn’t, in our humble opinion, the most obvious candidate for listing, to some extent any addition to UNESCO’s prestigious list is a good one in terms of the recognition, funding…

Lopburi Well, it’s not all loathing – just sounded like a catchy title for the post – since, as far as we could see, the inhabitants of the medium-sized, provincial Thai town of Lopburi appear to have a love-hate relationship with their simian co-residents. The town’s population of urban, long-tailed macaques currently stands at somewhere between 6 and 7,000. They…

Thale Noi Thale Noi is a large lake or inland, freshwater sea situated between the southern Thai provinces of Phattalung and Songkhla. The protected wetland, covering some 500 square kilometres, is one of the largest lakes in Southeast Asia and its wide biodiversity gives rise to a rich flora and fauna, including numerous resident and migratory birds as well as…

Hidden Thailand Tour accommodation Since we’ve seem to have a particularly good collection of images of our Hidden Thailand Tour accommodation to hand, (thanks mainly to Wi) and working on the basis of – ‘if you’ve got it, flaunt it’ – we thought we’d post a selection of photos of the various hotels and resorts included in this off the…

A selection of photos from Wi’s long overdue recce of the charming and as yet unspoilt district of Amphawa, Thailand. Amphawa, actually a distant suburb of Bangkok, is situated in Samut Songkhram Province to the southwest of the capital, and for now, though popular with local weekenders, remains largely bypassed by overseas visitors. Leafy suburb it may well be but…

Our seriously off-the-beaten-track Thai tour Hidden Thailand takes you from Bangkok, via UNESCO World Heritage Sukhothai, through the picturesque mountains of Thailand’s far north before finishing in the historic northern capital of Chiang Mai. We’ve still got available places on our guaranteed 12th August departure so here are a few pictures to whet your appetite… Our Bangkok tour includes, of…