Simple Road Safety Tips When Renting a Scooter in Phuket
Phuket is a beautiful island, and if you don’t travel around, then you will miss out on so much. Of course, they are many excellent organised tours, but often you want to take...
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6 Best Places to Learn Thai in Bangkok
One of the great things about living in a new country is the opportunity to learn about the culture and, of course, the language. Speaking to Thai people on a daily basis will inevitably...
Why Speaking Thai is So Beneficial in the Workplace
Thailand is a beautiful country, and many visitors fall in love with the people and the culture. As a result, a small but still significant percentage of those visitors decide to make Thailand their...
Channel 3 TV’s production of Si Phaendin (Four Reigns) Part I by Paul Trafford
Si Phaendin (Thai สี่แผ่นดิน) by M.R. Kukrit Pramoj is a defining work of Thai culture, originally produced as a series of newspaper columns in the early 1950s. It’s a form of historical fiction that conveys aristocratic life...
Doing Your First Phuket Holiday Right: 5 Things to Know Before You Go
Thailand has many tourist destinations that attract hundreds of thousands of travelers each year. One of these destinations is Phuket, known for its beautiful beaches and crystal blue waters. Foreign or local, tourists flock...
Learn Thai at ALA Language School in Bangkok
To most Western people (me included) learning Thai language seems to be a scary undertaking. Not only is Thai a tonal language which means that there are five tones, but Thai also has 44...
Tibetan Monks at the Alster Lake in Hamburg
Sunday afternoon I was blessed to join a procession of Tibetan monks. Last week the four Geshes from the Sera Je monastery created a sand mandala at MARKK (Völkerkundemuseum) in Hamburg, Germany. On Thursday,...
New Tibetan Center in Hamburg, Germany
Today I would like to present to you the new Tibetan Center in Hamburg, Germany. I know this topic is not about Thailand. However, it relates to Buddhism in general. The Tibetan Center, under...
A Short Guide to Koh Larn, Thailand’s Coral Island
Escape Pattaya’s crowded and touristy beaches and head over to Koh Larn or Coral Island. This paradise island is only 7.5 km away from the nearest shore in Pattaya and is a popular day-tour...
Photoshooting with Thai Fabric Jewelry
It’s been quite a while since my small handicraft shop ‘Sirinya Ann’s Atelier’ has been active. I first started out handcrafting items from Thai fabric in 2013. I don’t sell anymore but I still...
Luk Kreung in History and Popular Culture
It has been a while since I’ve explored the influence of luk kreung (i.e. half-Thai people) in popular culture. Today it seems that a great number of part-Thai people are prominent in Thai popular...
