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What are you favourites?

 

Pai no 1 in this list.

Lopburi is charming? ???? and it's hiding in the jungle? ???? 

 

What a lot of .....

Ao Nang??? Dirty tourist town with little local food. Krabi town is beautiful. This is a very strange list. 

BS list with some BS places.

Roi Et easily and some of the best singers!

5 minutes ago, MarcelV said:

BS list with some BS places.

Yes i agree but why not add a few of your own choices instead.

5 minutes ago, bignok said:

Yes i agree but why not add a few of your own choices instead.

Phrae, Phayao, Bueng Kan, Nakhon Phanom, Chanthaburi, Samut Songkhram, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Ranong, Phatthalung, Narathiwat, Betong, to name a few all over the country.

Wichian Buri in Phetchabun province.  A few miles from any major routes and with an old fashioned high street (Main Street for our US folk).  It has a certain laid back charm.....

Maung Kao Sukhothai is looking good and has been transformed quite a bit, no ugly electric cables, internet cables.

 

Pavements and pretty lamp posts.

Improvement's ongoing. 

 

 

I vote for Pattaya. charming as and India man with a gold chain being chased by a ladyboy

on high hills while the locals cheering on.

Baan Rak Thai, about 20 km from Mae Hong Son, way off the beaten track. A lake surrounded by shops whose main stock in trade seems to be lollies.

The only place I have ever seen an albino Thai.

Nan, Phetchabun and Loei are nice, also Sukhothai, although that is more like a city.

For anyone who likes wood carvings, IMO Phrae is the place to go.

1 hour ago, brianburi said:

Wichian Buri in Phetchabun province.  A few miles from any major routes and with an old fashioned high street (Main Street for our US folk).  It has a certain laid back charm.....

Shhhhhhhh ????

Pai Mae Hong Son northern Thailand 

Pattaya. It's the real Thailand.

Songkhla Old Town

3 hours ago, bignok said:

What are you favourites?

When I retired to live in Thailand, Lanna was my first choice and I had a wooden house built in the mountains overlooking Phayao which is situated alongside a large lake (Kwan Phayao). It has a long promenade with palm trees, flower beds, many bars, restaurants and hotels. Fantastic scenery across the lake to the distant mountains. Very popular with Thai tourists and foreigners on organised coach trips who stop for lunch on their way to Chiang Rai and the Golden Triangle. Highway Number 1 by-passes to the east.

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, proton said:

Roi Et easily and some of the best singers!

How am I supposed to drive from Songkha to Roi Et to Phrae?

nong khai and tha bo for me

8 minutes ago, bignok said:

How am I supposed to drive from Songkha to Roi Et to Phrae?

I would say that the first step is by car, rental or owning - up to you? But, I would think surely you must know this, right?

 

If you want something easier maybe try the old city of Chiang Mai - quite charming to walk around in... 

Lampang, a lovely quiet Thai town with lots of teak houses.

Chiang Khan is good for an overnight, Ditto Nan and Chantaburi.

 

Lampang pretty much never sees a tourist. Phrae supposedly has the biggest collection of old teak houses. I've been her a year and have been to Pai 3 times. 

 

These places are good en route to a real place, but 3 days in any of them would have you reading a book a lot on day 3. 

 

 

11 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

I would say that the first step is by car, rental or owning - up to you? But, I would think surely you must know this, right?

 

If you want something easier maybe try the old city of Chiang Mai - quite charming to walk around in... 

I was joking 

1 hour ago, Lemsta69 said:

Pattaya. It's the real Thailand.

LK Metro being the epicentre of paradise on earth.

Best way to ruin a place for tomorrow is to go on the Internet and say it's great today.

I would not say it is charming; however, the warren-like market at Mae Sai just short of the crossing into Tatchilek is very interesting, and has items which are really not all that legal.

I like Chantaburi and Ubon as practical towns with charm here and there. Chaing Rai in 1985 seemed nice. Phuket town has some nice areas with mix of lovingly tarted up older buildings but still a fair few almost derelict buildings. Walked through this big old fifties hotel the other day that is no longer a hotel. Big foyer, broken down lifts and totally run down, with 10 residents hanging in there. Seemed a bit of that amongst the nice restored hotels and restaurants. 

Pai? Maybe at some point, but my last visit a few months ago it was full of hippie looking backpackers blowing weed all day and eating pizza then, getting drunk at night yelling and screaming and vomiting in the streets.  Charming to some I guess.

Not sure what is meant by "charming" The scenery is spectacular in many parts of Thailand but I would like to introduce the aspect of the architecture and quaint little towns; interesting walks around them, with privately owned businesses, shops that are a little different from the main stuff, lovely restaurants. And of course a small matter of the locals being friendly.

 

My brother-in-law is visiting Thailand for the first time in November and he asked me, what is the Thai architecture like? Although, I have been to many places all over Thailand, I have found that architecture amounts to temples and little else. To check this opinion I visited Google and architectural images of Thailand to discover- it is mostly about Temples.

 

I am sure there are pockets of interesting architecture and "charm" in Thailand; I have a found a few, particularly in Songkhla, especially the "old town"

 

How on earth Karon on Phuket got onto this list is a mystery.   Nothing but a few resorts and low level shops and restaurants.   Lanta Town (obviously on Koh Lanta) is worth a wander around for an hour or so (too small for anything more).

The riverfront area in Nakhon Phanom is very pleasant.

 

Nongkhai quite nice too, on the riverfront.