10 reasons to visit Thailand
Thailand has been a popular tourist destination for many years. In fact, if you've been there once, you'll definitely go back. From one research this blog has shown that no less than 87% of the respondents want to visit Thailand for a second time.
To help you on your way, we give the 10 most important reasons to choose Thailand in 2011:
- Friendly population
- Gorgeous beaches
- Good and cheap
- A more than excellent kitchen
- Exciting nightlife
- Shopping Valhalla
- A wonderfully tropical climate
- Wilderness
- Accommodations for every budget
- A rich cultural history
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Thailand has about 3.200 kilometers of tropical coastline, there are hundreds of beautiful beaches and islands to choose from. The tourism sector is well developed, transport is efficient and there are accommodations for every budget. The food is also exceptionally tasty, delicious curies, fish dishes and juicy fresh mangoes straight from the tree.
Enjoy the hospitable seaside resorts and islands such as Koh Samui, Phuket, Pattaya and Krabi. You have a huge choice of restaurants, a vibrant nightlife and plenty of shopping opportunities. Would you like to ride an elephant, experience a trek through the jungle? In Thailand you can. Do you like snorkeling or diving? Then you should definitely be in Thailand. But this is not all, you will also find dozens of spas, spas and golf courses.
In short, Thailand is also for you'Amazing'!
I completely agree with everything………..Only that elephant, do NOT do that, the elephants have it so hard already, they are abused to be so calm and do their tricks, I have experienced it myself.
We shouldn't make elephant trips anymore, even though they seem so strong, those backs are not made for having such a heavy bench and also 1 or 2 people on it.
Totally agree.
There remains a difference between tourists and emigrants.
Visited Thailand in September. I agree with many points of the 'ten reasons' to visit Thailand.
But the elephants.
In 2006 I visited India and Nepal. Did a trip on an elephant in Nepal, as an unsuspecting tourist. Sitting in an 'inverted table', on the back of this large animal, with about 6 Westerners crammed into a bowl. A lightweight Nepalese sat behind the ears of this good-natured giant. In his hands were instruments with sharp points. I was on the last ride of a long day at work. The animals knew they were going to their resting place. They were frantic, running and trumpeting, because the day's work was done again…
Also very nice, I washed elephants in the river.
For the Westerner of course a very special experience, back in the Netherlands I got my thoughts. I read in travelogues in this region about elephants with broken ears. Ears are the most sensitive part of elephants. This sensitive spot is the perfect place to hurt these giants, and to get them 'tame'.
During this trip, thank God I did not see any battered elephants.
At home on the internet, discovered that elephants are taken from the family very young. Be placed in a little box, to make them 'mak',
My heart bled, because I know that elephants are 'family animals'.
Apart from being 'family animals', this method is of course very objectionable.
I know that this method is also used in Thailand…..
With this knowledge also made the decision never to participate in this 'tourist attraction' again!
Last September we visited the ruins of Ayattuya. I hope I spelled this name right!
There you can also visit the sights on the back of an elephant.
During my visit, an elephant was mistreated in such a way that you could hear it screaming in the distance……. It went through my marrow and bone…. I could also see this animal being mistreated!
I am curious about the experiences of the Dutch living in Thailand, and the visitors of this site, with the 'tourist attraction' the 'elephant'. What do you know about this, and what is your experience?
After all, this 'elephant trip' is here in the '10 reasons' to visit Thailand.
Thailand has a lot to offer, and that should be promoted.
But I have my reservations…. at these kinds of attractions, wherever….
I don't know enough about this subject to give a meaningful answer. In countries where poverty prevails, animals are treated differently, but that is no excuse. In Bangkok you see those baby elephants on the street that are covered in narcotics. The problem will not be solved quickly because tourists spend money on it anyway. If not Dutch, then Russians or others.
When was the last time you saw that? If I'm not mistaken, I haven't seen elephants on the street in Bangkok since the spring of 2009…they are pretty serious about it now, with high fines and all that. Incidentally, it is the Thais and not so much the average tourists who are most aware of how harmful it is for those animals to have to walk on hot asphalt in a city. I believe the king has also commented on it.
@ Robert, yes that's been a while. Good to hear it's not happening again.
At the beginning of 2010 I was in Bangkok and then I saw an elephant walking in the middle of the city, and somewhere just outside BBK there was one under a few corrugated iron sheets. With a few so-called mahouts, heavily on drink and drugs.
Next week I'm going to Thailand again for 4 months and then I'm going to pay attention again.
Fortunately, there are lovely people who do very good work for the elephants, for example: Antoinette van der Water and Lek from BRING THE ELEPHANT HOME.
You can adopt an elephant, deposit money, you name it.