what are your Thailand must-dos?

[Anonymous]

One of the best things we did was a A Chef's Tour Bangkok food tour. Amazing. All over the historic chinatown of BKK and the back alleys. So stuffed afterwards but the food was so delicious and it was fascinating watching it being prepared. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g293916-d12845327-Reviews-A_Chef_s_Tour_Bangkok-Bangkok.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the best things we did was a A Chef's Tour Bangkok food tour. Amazing. All over the historic chinatown of BKK and the back alleys. So stuffed afterwards but the food was so delicious and it was fascinating watching it being prepared. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g293916-d12845327-Reviews-A_Chef_s_Tour_Bangkok-Bangkok.html

We did a tour like that— one of the best soups I ever had being cooked and served out of a large steel drum (the barrel, not the instrument).

Thailand had amazing food.

[Anonymous]

NP. If you like art museums/contemporary art/Asian art, I recommend this Bangkok museum. It's accessible by subway.

https://jimthompsonhouse.org/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most people go to Thailand because it’s cheap yet feels fancy/exotic. Most enjoy the beaches and venture out to see something more cultural.

What kind of “something more cultural”? Just temples, elephants, cats, and food tours? Or is there more to the country?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people go to Thailand because it’s cheap yet feels fancy/exotic. Most enjoy the beaches and venture out to see something more cultural.

What kind of “something more cultural”? Just temples, elephants, cats, and food tours? Or is there more to the country?

I went to a folk dance evening show. I liked it even though it was more tourist-oriented than I would have liked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people go to Thailand because it’s cheap yet feels fancy/exotic. Most enjoy the beaches and venture out to see something more cultural.

What kind of “something more cultural”? Just temples, elephants, cats, and food tours? Or is there more to the country?

Go. Away.

[Anonymous]

Go to pattaya beach and play connect 4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people go to Thailand because it’s cheap yet feels fancy/exotic. Most enjoy the beaches and venture out to see something more cultural.

What kind of “something more cultural”? Just temples, elephants, cats, and food tours? Or is there more to the country?

Go. Away.

Why do my questions offend you? I’m seriously curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people go to Thailand because it’s cheap yet feels fancy/exotic. Most enjoy the beaches and venture out to see something more cultural.

What kind of “something more cultural”? Just temples, elephants, cats, and food tours? Or is there more to the country?

I went to a folk dance evening show. I liked it even though it was more tourist-oriented than I would have liked.

Wow, cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to pattaya beach and play connect 4.

Sounds amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people go to Thailand because it’s cheap yet feels fancy/exotic. Most enjoy the beaches and venture out to see something more cultural.

What kind of “something more cultural”? Just temples, elephants, cats, and food tours? Or is there more to the country?

Go. Away.

Why do my questions offend you? I’m seriously curious.

^^Also, do you have some ideas to add?

[Anonymous]

This thread is pretty sad. We loved our trip to Thailand and it was easy to do cool stuff cheaply. Chiang Mai we did a tour to national park and went to small village. Temples/buddhas of course. Went to predawn tour of major temple and participated in offerings to monks. Went to floating market and train market. Went to site of prisoner of war camp and bridge over river Kwai. Went to giant market in Bangkok. Stayed in local hotel overlooking temple across the river. Got massages. Went to Erewan; swam in falls. These are just what I remember and we didn’t go to beaches!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is pretty sad. We loved our trip to Thailand and it was easy to do cool stuff cheaply. Chiang Mai we did a tour to national park and went to small village. Temples/buddhas of course. Went to predawn tour of major temple and participated in offerings to monks. Went to floating market and train market. Went to site of prisoner of war camp and bridge over river Kwai. Went to giant market in Bangkok. Stayed in local hotel overlooking temple across the river. Got massages. Went to Erewan; swam in falls. These are just what I remember and we didn’t go to beaches!

Some actual ideas, thanks for visiting. Which specific temples did you visit? Any museums? Thanks again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, and this is only my 3rd post. I'm not the poster who is bashing peoples' suggestions, so please keep them coming. Even the ones suggesting going to Cambodia area interesting, although I don't think we'll be able to go that route.

As for Thailand itself, there is a family reason why we're going there and as I said, we've been there once before. I'm just really looking to see what others have liked, and I'm sensing an elephant sanctuary theme, so I'm going to look into that (a real sanctuary, not one that has elephant rides because that's horrible). Beach time is already planned as well.

Patara Elephant Farm near Chiang Mai was wonderful. They do (bareback) rides. We found Koh Samui a little underwhelming. An island nearby (Koh Tao) is a great place to get your diving license, if that suits your fancy. We only did one day of scuba there. We stayed in a few Le Meridien properties throughout the country with points and found it to be a good value.

[Anonymous]

There are so many Thailand itineraries on the web if you just google. There are Thailand tourism groups on facebook you can join where people recommend things and provide reviews of their trips.

This is not like travelling to North Korea. Plenty of people have done this.