Bangkok
Golden temples at 7 a.m. and noodles at midnight.
Discover Thailand · Destinations
Where to be
Thirteen places in the six regions: what makes each different and what to do there.
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- Central · City
- North · Culture · Nature
Chiang Mai
Three hundred temples inside a square moat, mountains in every direction, and the country's best coffee.
- South · Beaches and islands
Railay and Krabi
Limestone towers reachable only by longtail boat.
- Central · Culture
Ayutthaya
The capital of Siam for four centuries until it was burned in 1767.
- South · Nature
Khao Sok
Rainforest older than the Amazon, and floating bamboo bungalows under limestone cliffs.
- Central · Culture
Sukhothai
The first Thai kingdom, and a historical park best seen from a bicycle at 7 a.m. before the heat and the coaches arrive.
- South · Beaches and islands · Nature
Phang Nga
The bay of rock islands.
- Northeast · Culture
Isaan
Phanom Rung and Phimai are Angkor-era sanctuaries with no queues at all.
- West · Culture · Nature
Kanchanaburi
The Death Railway, the war cemeteries, and then seven turquoise waterfall tiers you can swim in.
- East · Beaches and islands
Pattaya
The sea, an hour and a bit from Bangkok.
- North · Culture
Chiang Rai
A white temple, a blue temple and a black house — three artists' visions of heaven and hell, twenty minutes apart, unlike anything else in Buddhism.
- South · Beaches and islands
Phuket
An island big enough to drive around, with a town that has nothing to do with the beaches.
- South · Beaches and islands
Koh Samui
The Gulf island with an airport.
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