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Friendly
and fun-loving, exotic and tropical, cultured and historic, Thailand
radiates a golden hue from its glittering temples and tropical beaches
to the ever-comforting Thai smile. Fields & Forests
In between the
cluttered cities and towns is the rural heartland, a mix of rice
paddies, tropical forests and squat villages tied to the agricultural
clock. In the north, the forests and fields bump up against toothy blue
mountains decorated by silvery waterfalls. In the south, scraggly
limestone cliffs poke out of the cultivated landscape like prehistoric
skyscrapers. The usually arid northeast beams an emerald hue during the
rainy season when tender green rice shoots carpet the landscape.
A Bountiful Table
Adored
around the world, Thai cuisine expresses fundamental aspects of Thai
culture: it is generous, warm, refreshing and relaxed. Each Thai dish
relies on fresh, local ingredients – pungent lemongrass, searing
chillies and plump seafood. A varied national menu is built around the
four fundamental flavours: spicy, sweet, salty and sour. Roving
appetites go on eating tours of Bangkok noodle shacks, seafood pavilions in Phuket and Burmese market stalls in Mae Hong Son.
Cooking classes reveal the simplicity behind the seemingly complicated
dishes and mastering the market is an important survival skill.Sacred Spaces
The
celestial world is a close confidant in this Buddhist nation and
religious devotion is colourful and ubiquitous. Gleaming temples and
golden Buddhas frame both the rural and modern landscape. Ancient banyan
trees are ceremoniously wrapped in sacred cloth to honour the resident
spirits, fortune-bringing shrines decorate humble homes as well as
monumental malls, while garland-festooned dashboards ward off traffic
accidents. Visitors can join in on the conversation through meditation
retreats in Chiang Mai, religious festivals in northeastern Thailand,
underground cave shrines in Kanchanaburi and Phetchaburi and hilltop temples in northern Thailand.Sand between Your Toes
With
a long coastline (actually, two coastlines) and jungle-topped islands
anchored in azure waters, Thailand is a tropical getaway for the
hedonist and the hermit, the prince and the pauper. This paradise offers
a varied menu: playing in the gentle surf of Ko Lipe, diving with
whale sharks in Ko Tao, scaling the sea cliffs of Krabi, kiteboarding in Hua Hin, partying on Ko Phi Phi, recuperating at a health resort in Ko Samui and feasting on the beach wherever sand meets sea.
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