07 January 2011 ~ 5 Comments

Kinnaree Thai Restaurant Bangkok, Thailand

Share Kinnaree Thai Restaurant in Bangkok was selected as the official restaurant for the Med Blog Contest farewell dinner. This cozy and romantic little gem is also located in the heart of Bangkok in the Sukhumvit area but only to be away from the main streets. On my arrival here, I couldn’t help notice how [...]

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22 November 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Loy Krathong Preparations – Picture of the Day

Share Loy Krathong Preparations is my picture for today. I took this photograph at the Farmers Market which is located around the Chatuchak Weekend Market, and the old Thai lady seemed engrossed in her crafting of the Candle Rafts. Snapping away, she didn’t seem to care about what was going on. I assumed it was [...]

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21 November 2010 ~ 28 Comments

Loy Krathong at the Chow Phraya River

Share Loy Krathong, though it sounds foreign, I had no clue to what actually happened at this massive festival held throughout Thailand on the full moon of the 12th month according to the lunar calendar. I knew that people would light lanterns and float them into the skies but only though magazines and newspapers so [...]

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20 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Bangkok, a revisit after two years

Share It was a smooth flight from Kuala Lumpur on the late plane to Bangkok,  I was trying to catch forty winks  and suddenly I’m in Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Aiport again. Things look pretty much the same as when I first landed here many years ago when they opened. What I like about this stunning airport [...]

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20 November 2010 ~ 13 Comments

Chatuchak Weekend Market

Share While visiting Bangkok, the capitol of Thailand, there are numerous markets to visit and Chaktuchak Weekend Market (จตุจักร) is the largest of them all. You can easily spend a full day there exploring the 15,000 mini stalls and shops which are spread out over 27 acres. This market is known to have over 200,000 [...]

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18 November 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Suan Lum Night Market in Bangkok

Share Suan Lum Night Market is currently undergoing a closure after a whole nine years of business catered to locals and tourists in Bangkok. The owners have plans to relocate the bazaar to a new area and calling it Suan Lum Night Bazaar Ratchada which will most probably be opened in 2012. The original Suan [...]

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