Somchai Jaidee - Easy Thailand Visa (Page 19)

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Practicalities

Thailand Has Two Hundred and Fifty Golf Courses and Almost None of Them Are in the Places You Are Going

Championship layouts, two caddies per group, a green fee system with twilight rates, and a January in Hua Hin that is a genuinely world-class week of golf.

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Slow Travel

A Sea of Fog Rolls Through the Valley at Five in the Morning and About Forty People See It

Sixteen hundred metres up a winding mountain road in Phetchabun, with a battle from the last century still on the ground and essentially nobody else there.

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Temples & Culture

For Nine Days, Most of Phuket Eats No Meat and Some of Them Put a Knife Through Their Face

The strangest thing on this island happens in October, it is centuries older than the tourism, and it is worth a great deal more attention than it gets from people who photograph it.

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Islands & Beaches

Krabi Is Not a Beach Town and That Is the Whole Point

Everybody who has heard of Krabi has heard of one beach strip, and the province underneath it contains a cave temple with twelve hundred steps and a jungle pool the colour of a swimming pool.