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Footprint Bangkok And Beaches Handbook (Footprint Bangkok & the Beaches Handbook) 🔍
Joshua Eliot; Jane Bickersteth; Natapon Buranakul; Sophia Buranakul NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, Footprint handbooks, 1st ed, Lincolnwood, Ill, ©2000
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Thailand is an Asian cliché. Exotic, inscrutable, hot, Oriental, delicate, sumptuous... Take the first few hours of an average visitor's arrival in Bangkok. Off the plane and into a gleaming new airport terminal. Lilting Thai voices, and a strange alphabet. Into the city along an elevated highway in the company of an apparently deranged taxi driver with a magic diagram inscribed on the roof of his car, a picture of a long-dead king lodged reverently in the tachometer, a cheap gold Buddha glued to the top of the dashboard, and a garland of plastic frangipani hanging from the rear-view mirror. Out of the taxi and into a quiet, cool hotel with copies of the Asian Wall Street Journal artfully arranged in reception and CNN in the bedrooms. Or into a small guesthouse run by a Thai bobbing to Bob Marley and offering sweltering rooms the size of chicken coops for the price of a dozen eggs.
While most people do touch base in effervescent Bangkok, and some grow to love the city, for many it is just a means to an end, a way station en route to the islands, beaches and towns of the south. With 2,614 km of coastline, there's a lot of potential. But, while many come to Thailand in search of a simple hut on a quiet beach, the challenge is to find one before the next person - or the next 10,000 people - get there. The pace of change is sometimes bewildering. Bear in mind that in the early 1970s Phuket was a forgotten backwater. But it is still possible to find simple bungalow accommodation for a couple of dollars a night, and probably a quiet beach, clear waters and an empty hammock.
Alternative title
Footprint Bangkok And The Beaches Handbook (footprint Handbooks)
Alternative title
Bangkok & the Beaches Handbook (Footprint - Travel Guides)
Alternative title
Bangkok and the beaches handbook : the travel guide
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Eliot, Joshua; Bickersteth, Jane; Buranakul, Natapon; Buranakul, Sophia
Alternative publisher
McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
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Footprint Travel Guides
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Footprint Handbooks
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Country Roads Press
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Bradt Travel Guides
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Contemporary Books
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Bath: Footprint
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Passport Books
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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United States, United States of America
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Footprint, 1st ed, Bath, cop. 2000
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Footprint handbooks, Bath, 2000
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1st, First Edition, FR, 2001
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January 25, 2001
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March 1, 2001
Alternative description
A travel guide to combine exploring Bangkok with time relaxing on the beaches and islands of the Thai coast. Phuket and Koh Samui are covered, along with Phi Phi and the lesser known areas and islands. Details are included on planning a trip, and on getting about and where to stay and eat.
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After Bangkok has left you befuddled and bemused, head off for the beaches and the islands of the South where traffic jams and consumerism give way to the gentle lapping of the sea and the chink of ice. This book covers all you need to know when travellin
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Top of the list for many people visiting Thailand, especially if they come from a less than tropical country, is a beach.
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473 pages : 21 cm
Includes index
date open sourced
2023-06-28
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