Destinations

Thai Boxing | Andrew Mueller | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

As a shrine to a national sporting heritage, Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium is an initially unprepossessing venue. Secreted amid a neighbourhood as noisy, chaotic, crowded and filthy as pretty much every other neighbourhood in Bangkok, the tin-roofed concrete building looks, from the teeming street outside, like a run-down high-school gymnasium and, once through the doors, like a vast uninhabited chicken battery.

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When in Bangkok... Get Massaged | Anthony Sattin | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

I am lying naked on a white mattress, surrounded by plenty of teak and polished stone, while a Thai woman kneels to anoint me with herbal slop. I can smell the camphor and there's lemongrass, tamarind and things she won't divulge. Head to toe, front and back. When she has finished, I have an inkling of how it must feel to be one of Nigella Lawson's chickens...

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Bangkok | Andrew Eames | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

Few cities in the world are as exciting - or as exhausting - as Bangkok. The Thai capital is fabulous and charming one moment, and steamy, brutal, and difficult the next...

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Thailand’s Teak Palace | Jonathan Begg | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

Certainly it is impossible to exaggerate the cool dignity of this shaded mansion in the heart of Thailand’s huge sweltering capital. Every line of the architecture tends to charm and soothe

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The Lonely Khao Sanh Road | Philip Sen | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

Departing a few days later I disputed the bill. Surely I couldn't have drunk that much. The South African smiled. Surely I had. Totting up the bill again, I realised he was right. I must have been having fun

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Family Holiday: Thailand | Dea Birkett | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

"Not cul-ture," moaned my 11-year-old. In her pre-teen drawl, culture sounded like a swear word. "You're always wanting to do that sort of thing. It's so bor-ing. Why can't we hang out on the beach?"

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Honeymooning in Bangkok | Tim Elliott | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

Only in Bangkok, a city of ten million Buddhists, could people sit in a three hour traffic jam and not want to kill one another

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Four Moments in Thailand | Bradley Winterton | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

What I remember most fondly of Thailand are a temple and a lake, a river and a ruin, none of them major tourist destinations but all of them replete with a spirit that for me is close to the heart of the country

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Massage Heaven | Belinda Jackson | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

Wat Po, with its massive Reclining Buddha, is among the most famous of Thai temples

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