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Hello all I am proud to announce that I am featured in a new, free ebook released under the Lonely Planet banner, called "Around the Wo...

More South East Asia photos at http://www.matthewt.co.uk Following on from my visit to the Baiyoke Tower (see previous post) I took the sky...

On my recent family trip to Thailand, I was allowed out on my own for a day while mum took the kids shopping! I decided to spend it revisi...

If you are into Tibetan style temples but don't want to venture to Tibet, there's a hidden gem waiting to be discovered in Bangkok....

What a great time my daughter and I had here. I had been meaning to visit here for about the last 8 years and never quite got round to it....

One sight often overlooked by visitors to Pattaya is Mini Siam. It is exactly what the name suggest, small models of famous buildings across...

My family decided it was time to visit somewhere different for our beach break. We've done Koh Samet several times, Koh Samui, Phuket, H...

Many people ask me which I prefer, Ayuthaya or Sukothai. Both are former capital cities and contain many ruins of temples dating from hundre...

A few days in Phuket Phuket has a mixed reputation, partially deserved but also partially unfair. The first image that pops into many people...

Once the highest point in Bangkok, the Golden Mount still stands out even amongst the concrete jungle that now surrounds it. This is a great...