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Don't Tell Everyone But . . .

Beaches? Once you've seen one you've seen them all or so I used to believe. Just like Bill Hicks ...

Thailand Neil Campbell

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Still Awaiting The Writer: Thai Literature and Wanlaya's Love

It's not easy being a bibliophile in Thailand. It is a profoundly subliterate country. An expatri...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Cruising along the river

Return of the scorpion-tailed boat

Refreshing morning breeze blew into the scorpion-tailed boat’s cabin that was taking me and oth...

Thailand Gomase Theenanon

Suriyothai Dinner & a Movie Recipes & Photos

Thai Spring Rolls with Shrimp ½ cup tiny bay shrimp 1 carrot, coarsely grated 6 mushrooms, chopp...

Thailand Celeste Heiter

Chinatown, Bangkok

The Sights, Sounds and Smells of Chinatown, Bangkok

Chinatown, Bangkok - the streets are filled with ethnic Chinese people and large neon signs, remi...

Thailand Exotissimo Travel

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Hesse and the Asian Dream

Lord Macaulay once famously declared that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth th...

Thailand / China / India Kenneth Champeon

Here is shown a modern bookstore crowding out a deteriorating "singha", or lion, at the entryway to a temple.

The Changing Face of Chiang Mai

No more than twenty years ago, children played badminton on Prapoklad Road, near Chiang Mai's gat...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Recipe: Thai Peanut Sauce

Can be served with various types of meats and vegetables. 1/4 pound roasted peanuts, finely groun...

Thailand Habeeb Salloum

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A Heartbreaking Work of Middling Genius

We are accustomed to think of the breakdown of the traditional family as a Western, and particula...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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General The Man in Seat 61 . Train travel and schedules for most countries of Asia (and the world...

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Feeling At Home in Chiang Mai

Travelers beware. They say that if you arrive in Chiang Mai for the first time by train, you will...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Ghostbuster - Thai Style

For decades Ornta made his living as his father and grandfather had before him -- by catching gho...

Thailand AFP/Thanaporn Promyamyai

James Bond Island, Phang Nga Bay

Dreaming of Phuket

Phuket is more than just a beach resort. Phuket Town has been an historically important port to ...

Thailand John Lander

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A to B by the South China Sea . . .

Walking is a fantastic way to get around normally and there's nothing better than a brisk stroll ...

Thailand Neil Campbell

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Thailand's new high-end hip hotels

New hotels and resorts fuel design innovation in Thailand...

Thailand AFP/Charlie McDonald-Gibson

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Bangkok's Don Muang International Airport

If you fly much in Asia, you'll no doubt eventually wind up at Bangkok's Don Muang International ...

Thailand Steven K. Bailey

* * * * * Michael Smithies' Descriptions of Old Siam * * * * * There is probably no more interest...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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A Solo Hike...one woman's hiking adventure in Cape Phrangan

I lingered near the sign warning of the difficult walk to the lagoon, watching enviously as a whi...

Thailand Ee Lin Wan

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The Chinese woman sitting next to me on the flight from Tokyo to Detroit just can't stay in her s...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

The monument of Queen Chamthewee in Lamphun

Pa Sang comes of age

Armed with a road map I got behind the wheels and drove south from Chiang Mai to Lamphun to enjoy...

Thailand Gomase Theenanon

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