Thailand Fascination

The old kingdom of Siam is listed among the most important destinations of tourists from all over the world. Despite earthquakes, attacks, or the recent coup d’état, the magic of Thailand is indisputably much stronger. However, what determines the tourists to choose Thailand as the favourite destination for holidays? There are rare destinations in Thailand, which show a satisfaction rate of 100%.

The Kingdom of South-Eastern Asia, Thailand however enjoys growing admiration, so that destinations like Indonesia and Sri Lanka have lost ground. In 2006 Thailand had 13,820 million tourists, 20 percent more compared to the previous year, while for 2007 the number of tourists is estimated at 15 million. Those who have already visited Thailand had a unanimous opinion: everything here is fascinating.

Thailand is a country, which you can love very quickly and everything here is simple. You can go by a bus travel , train travel , or airline travel without losing your way. As far as accommodation is concerned, wide ranges of hotels, from inns, which display the lowest prices for one night of accommodation to several hundred Euros to spend a night at the Hotel Triangle in Bangkok, are at your disposal. Thailand is a country for all tastes: cultural tourism, spa, sports, or even urban livestock are available to every traveller.

However, you should not forget the famous spas for which the old kingdom of Siam, now Thailand was famous. Prices for a stay of a week in Thailand start from 1000 Euro and if we take into account offers of cheap tickets, where the price of a round trip ticket starts at 400 Euros, it is really worth. Another argument in the favour of this exotic destination is the easy access, Thailand being awarded as the first stop on the Asian continent, which allows a small trip to Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma.

According to statistics, one in five tourists chooses an adventure of this kind. Thailand offers the most beautiful landscapes that are attracting you, to know as much as possible about its history, its culture, and its customs. From the forests of the Gold Triangle (Chiang Mai), to the beaches of the South (Kho Samui, Phuket), through the historic city Ayutthaya, or the refined restaurants in Bangkok, the peaceful monasteries whose lakes are packed with lotus flower, everything is unique in Thailand.

If we had to make a short division of this blessed lands, it would have three aspects: on the one hand people, customs and peculiarities of their habitat, on the other hand the nature with flora and fauna like in childhood dreams and the third is the history, the culture, art and faith of local people. In Thailand, there are about 70 million inhabitants on a territory of 514,000 square km and they are mostly Buddhist. The social mosaic is completed with tribes of refugees coming here because of successive dictatorships in Burma (now Myanmar) and China.

Their particularity is that they are pantheistic animist and (they believe in soul and local spirits that live in the house, in objects, stones, trees, animals, wind, etc.), and they have very particular customs. They live in the mountains of northern Thailand and gain their living making handicrafts and working in the proximity agriculture.

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