Category Archives: Destinations

The 1957 Oscar for David Lean’s The Bridge on River Kwai, catapulted the hitherto unknown remnant of WW II into limelight. Since then The Bridge has become the soul of Kanchanaburi in Thailand’s western region.

At the Wat Phra Mahathat in Ayutthaya and staring at the Buddha head-in- the-bodhi tree, I wondered how anyone had achieved such a feat. And why?

Pattaya has a side to it that not many are aware of or want to know. I have seen this place by night and by day and I liked the day better!

I had heard of Silom and its infamous Patpong area, but even in Banglumphu women of the night shared space with the rest of us and no one seemed to mind very much!