Thailand

Dragon towers, sticky waterfalls, train-track markets, and temples like fever dreams.

66 discoveries · 18 provinces covered

Highlights

Ancient City (Muang Boran)

Billed as the world's largest open-air museum — a vast park, shaped like Thailand itself, scattered with full-size and scaled replicas of the country's greatest monuments, best explored by bicycle over a whole unhurried day.

📍 Samut Prakan, Mueang Samut Prakan 💴 Paid ⏱ Full day

🍜 Food

Jay Fai

A 70-something street cook in ski goggles, working two flaming charcoal woks on a Bangkok sidewalk — and holder of a Michelin star. Her crab omelette and drunken noodles draw queues for hours.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

🛸 Oddity

Maeklong Railway Market

A produce market built directly on active train tracks: eight times a day a train rolls through at walking pace, vendors snap their awnings back in seconds, and the stalls re-open before the last carriage has passed.

📍 Samut Songkhram, Samut Songkhram 🆓 Free ⏱ Half day

🎨 Art

The Sanctuary of Truth

A 100-meter-plus monument on the Pattaya shoreline built entirely of carved wood — no nails, every surface a sculpture — under construction since 1981 and deliberately never finished, with carvers working live as you walk through.

📍 Chonburi, Pattaya 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

🏛️ Museum

Siriraj Medical Museum (The Death Museum)

A cluster of medical museums inside Bangkok's oldest hospital — pathology, forensics, anatomy and parasitology galleries lined with preserved specimens, including the infamous mummified remains of a 1950s murderer.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

✨ Experience

Treepod Dining at Soneva Kiri

On a remote island, you climb into a woven bamboo pod shaped like a weaver bird's nest and are hoisted metres up into the rainforest canopy — while a waiter delivers each course by zip-lining through the trees.

📍 Trat, Ko Kut 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

Seasonal events

🎏 Festival Seasonal event

Songkran (Thai New Year)

For three days every April, the whole country turns into the world's biggest water fight — Thai New Year, where soaking strangers with buckets and hoses is both a blessing and a national pastime.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 🆓 Free ⏱ Full day 🗓 Apr 13 – Apr 15

🎏 Festival Seasonal event

Yi Peng & Loi Krathong

On the full moon of the twelfth lunar month, Chiang Mai releases thousands of glowing paper lanterns into the night sky while rivers fill with candle-lit floats — Thailand's most luminous festival, doubled.

📍 Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai 🆓 Free ⏱ Half day 🗓 Nov 24 – Nov 25

🎏 Festival Seasonal event

Lopburi Monkey Buffet Festival

Once a year the old town of Lopburi lays out towering pyramids of fruit, vegetables, and sweets on red tablecloths in front of an ancient Khmer shrine — a lavish banquet held entirely for the city's thousands of resident macaques.

📍 Lopburi, Lopburi 🆓 Free ⏱ Half day 🗓 Nov 29

By province

Bangkok กรุงเทพมหานคร 29 Kanchanaburi กาญจนบุรี 8 Ayutthaya พระนครศรีอยุธยา 3 Samut Songkhram สมุทรสงคราม 3 Nakhon Pathom นครปฐม 3 Ratchaburi ราชบุรี 3 Chiang Mai เชียงใหม่ 3 Samut Prakan สมุทรปราการ 2 Chonburi ชลบุรี 2 Krabi กระบี่ 2 Prachuap Khiri Khan ประจวบคีรีขันธ์ 1 Lopburi ลพบุรี 1 Chiang Rai เชียงราย 1 Mae Hong Son แม่ฮ่องสอน 1 Udon Thani อุดรธานี 1 Nong Khai หนองคาย 1 Buriram บุรีรัมย์ 1 Trat ตราด 1 Phuket ภูเก็ต 0

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