Chiang Dao Cave

Chiang Dao Cave has long been a popular tourist attraction, famous among Thais and foreigners for its magnificent stalactite and stalagmite formations. The cave itself is surrounded by fertile and healthy forests. Inside the big beautiful caves there are smaller caves such as Horse Cave, Sleeping Buddha Cave and Glass Cave.Beautiful and unusually formed stalactites and stalagmites adorn the interior of each cave ....

National Museum of Royal Barges

On April 1932 King Rama VII crossed the lower span of the Memorial Bridge and embarked on the barge "Suphanahong" to travel by barge procession to the Grand Palace to mark the 150th Anniversary Celebration of the Chakri Dynasty and Bangkok as the capital city. That was the last Royal Barge Procession of an absolute Monarch of Siam, for the following June a coup d'etat changed the government from an absolute to a...

Introduction of Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai, the important province on the northern of Thailand, and the center of the Lanna Kingdom in the pass, was founded by King "Meng-rai" in 1296. It was governed by the King "Meng-rai" Dynasty until 1558 when it came under Burmese control around 200 years until 1774. Then, after having been deserted for 20 years, it became a dominion of Bangkok in 1782, ruled by local princes. It was finally upgraded to province...

Thai money

In the ancient times, the Thais used "pod duang" (bullet money) as currency. Pod duang was similar to a grub lying curled up. It was generally called ngern klom (round metal currency) in accordance with its round figure. Later, in the reign of King Rama IV, the expansion of international trade was to have a profound effect on the mode of production of currency. Gradually melted and made by hand, Pod...

Thai national flag

The traditional Thai flag of old, which was red, must have been flown in Thailand since the kingdom of Ayudhya (1680 A.D. or 2223 B.E.) It was common for the Thai ships at that time to display the red flag to be seen on the high seas and in the ports of neighbouring countries. In the Bangkok period, in order to differentiate the private merchant ships from state vessels, King Rama I had the picture of the royal...

Thailand in Brief

Thailand located in Southeast Asia borders Laos to the Northeast, Cambodia to the Southeast, Burma to the West and Northwest, and Malaysia to the South. It covers an area of 518,000 square kilometres. Its longest North to South distance is about 1,620 kilometres while its maximum dimension of East to West is about 730 kilometres.According to the Thais, the shape of Thailand on the map has been compared to the ...