Grand Palace and other Thailand General Tips

Grand Palace

Favorite Thing: One of the first places you should probably visit in Thailand is the Grand Palace! You can find lot's of ornately decorated buildings including Wat Phra Kaew which houses the sacred Emerald Buddha! You will have to deal the masses of people though. There are loads of tourist buses that come here! There are some out of the way spots that will be fairly quiet if you want to get away from the people. But it is a MUST SEE for Bangkok!

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General Tips: Hill Tribes

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Written by herzog63

on Feb 25, 2003

Hill Tribe

Favorite Thing: There are many hilltribes to see. It can be hot hiking during the day and the nights can be down right cold. I slept under rice sacks as blankets and quite often slept on a mud floor. Most nights we were at higher elevations so I froze my Butt off Almost everynight!! But it was Fun!!

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General Tips: Chicken Man?

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Written by herzog63

on Feb 25, 2003

Chicken Man

Favorite Thing: You can find various statues of "Chicken Man" at temples all over the country. This one is in the Grand Palace in Bangkok.

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General Tips: Ride an Elephant in Ayuthaya

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Written by herzog63

on Feb 25, 2003

elephant ride in Ayuthaya

Favorite Thing: You can ride an Elephant in Ayuthaya. It is pretty fun but if you have a chance to ride one in the jungle it is much better than going on the Ayuthaya elephant rides!

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General Tips: Garlic anyone??

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Updated by herzog63

on Jul 5, 2003

Garlic lady

Favorite Thing: This shot was taken in Damnoen Saduak. This lady has a huge supply of Garlic!! My wife could cook for a year with all of that!! I love garlic!!

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General Tips: Crocodile Farm

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Written by herzog63

on Feb 25, 2003

Crocs

Favorite Thing: On the way back to Bangkok from Damnoen Saduak we stopped into Crocodile Farm and zoo it was in interesting stop as you buy buckets of raw chicken and feed the the Crocs!!! My son was very interested in feeding the crocs. Ok for a couple of hours or so.

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General Tips: Elephant riding in Ayutthaya

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Written by herzog63

on Apr 14, 2003

Elephant Ride

Favorite Thing: It can be quit interesting to ride the elephants as you do get some nice views of the temples in the area but you don't actually enter the grounds of the temples. The ride is just on the side of the road. So if you really want to ride an elephant and are not goin to any of the jungle areas you could do it here. The elephants are dressed up pretty cool and so are the Mahoots. There are 2 operations in Ayutthaya that offer rides.

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General Tips: Wat Chai Wattanaram in Ayutthaya

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Written by herzog63

on Apr 14, 2003

Wat Chai Wattanaram

Favorite Thing: Wat Chai is a great place to hang out! I just love it there as long as there isn't a huge tour bus load of people hanging around too! It is where the movie Mortal Combat 2 was filmed. The grass lawn is very well maintained and a nice place to sit under some of the shade trees along the edge of the grounds. Also in the eastern corner you can sit under a Huge Shade tree right on the bank of the Chao Phraya River.

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General Tips: Lot's of monkeys at Khao Yai

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Written by herzog63

on May 27, 2003

Monkey

Favorite Thing: You will probably see lot's of monkeys at Khao Yai. We counted over 200 that we saw. We didn't see any Gibbon but we heard them in the jungle. I don't know exactly what kind of monkey it is but I think it is one of the types of Macaques that reside in the park. These guys hang out in the trees right near the road and will come right out to the cars that are driving by. It is illegal to feed them but I saw people doing it.

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General Tips: I could hear them but couldn't see them

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Written by herzog63

on May 27, 2003

Looking for Gibbons