National Museum Bangkok Amazing Thai craftsmanship
National Museum Bangkok Amazing Thai craftsmanship For the Royal Barge Author: Pen Drageon@gpendrageon.com Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery National Museum Bangkok National Museum Bangkok. The famous Royal Barge Procession is one of the spectacular grand epic event known Internationally. It is an event that people come from the world over to watch as it does not occur on […]
Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun
Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun Author: Josh@Asiabackpackers Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery Thai King Following in the Footsteps of Greatness – The New King of Thailand Thai King. From Birth to King with The New Royal Flag at its Center King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun: มหาวชิราลงกรณ บดินทรเทพยวรางกูร) was born 28th July 1952, in the Amphorn Sathan […]
Monks Alms Rounds in Thailand Showing Humbleness
Monks Alms Rounds in Thailand Author: Josh@Asiabackpackers Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery Merit Making Monks Alms Rounds in Thailand Monks Alms Rounds in Thailand. ‘Merit’ is not charity as perceived by western people and it is offensive to many Buddhist followers, to hear others imply that when monks leave their temples to gather alms, (known […]
Thai People Tree Dwelling Spirits of Thailand Animism
Thai People Tree Dwelling Spirits of Thailand Animism Author: Josh@Asiabackpackers Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery Thai People Tree Dwelling Spirits. Thai people have for countless centuries been animists, believing in spirits, ghosts and ghouls. The arrival of Buddhism around the 3rdcentury B.C. did little to change these beliefs and in some way actually legitimized them. […]
Nine Things I Will Miss About Thailand By Dan Ogilvie
Nine Things I Will Miss About Thailand No.9: Strangeness. Things I Will Miss About Thailand. Ploy called me. ‘You must come back this weekend’. I was living in Singapore and Ploy in Thailand. It was the 60th anniversary of the the late King’s ascension to the throne. I rather reluctantly agreed to book some flights. […]
August Festivals Thailand Throughout the Kingdom 2017
August Festivals Thailand Throughout the Kingdom 2017 Author: Josh@Asiabackpackers Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery August Festivals Thailand. While July is undoubtedly the month of candles and Buddhist lent, August is the month for the deceased to return to this realm. Getting to the bottom of the actual dates of any event in the Kingdom is never easy, with […]
king Bhumibol Adulyadej Thailand Royal Gateway to another Realm
king Bhumibol Adulyadej Thailand Royal Gateway to another Realm Author: Josh@Asiabackpackers Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery king Bhumibol Adulyadej Thailand. In honor of the late King Bhumibol and after a little over a year of mourning, the people of the Kingdom have their final chance to bid farewell to their King, before his soul is […]
Tribal Thailand Indigenous Tribe Mlabri People Losing Their Identity
Tribal Thailand Indigenous Tribe. Spirits of the Yellow Leaves – Walking into oblivion Author: Josh@Asiabackpackers. Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery Tribal Thailand Indigenous Tribe. The Mlabri are a first world people, currently going through a transformation process, which has taken others thousands of years…… and which could cost them their identity. Tribal Thailand Indigenous Tribe […]
Thailand 711 Stores could be a Convenience of the Past
Thailand 711 Stores could be a Convenience of the Past and Used knickers of the future? Author: Josh@Asiabackpackers Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery Thailand 711 Stores. Looking around Asia you can see every where automation taking on these smaller convenience stores, potentially slowly confining them to the history books. Where we in Southeast Asia and particularly […]
Thailand Candle Light Festivals The Biggest Across Thailand 2017
Thailand Candle Light Festivals The Biggest Across Thailand 2017 Author: Josh@Asiabackpackers Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery July and Thailand’s Candle Festivals Thailand Candle Light Festivals. The Kingdom celebrates in style each year, around Asanha Bucha Day and the start of the Buddhist Lent period, with a whole host of colourful and fun filled festivals to celebrate the humble […]
Amazing Thailand Thai Festivals July 2017 Across the Country
Amazing Thailand Thai Festivals July 2017 Across the Country Author: Josh@Asiabackpakers Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery Festivals across Thailand in July Revised June 2017 Amazing Thailand Thai Festivals. Here in the Land of Smiles, festivals are a way of life, with any number taking place at any one time all across the country. Getting to the bottom of the […]
Indigenous Tribes of Thailand The Vanishing Tai Khuen Tribe
Indigenous Tribes of Thailand The Vanishing Tai Khuen Tribe Author: Josh@Asiabackpakers Discover Thailand with Thailand Discovery Indigenous Tribes of Thailand. An ancient people who were forced from their homes to rebuild an abandoned city, in a neighboring Kingdom and who are fighting to keep their identity Indigenous Tribes of Thailand Over many centuries different tribal […]