I've had enough of the Tourist Ghettos in Thailand!

[BarBoy]

1 minute ago, ChumpChange said:

You know that this isn't Trumpland where you repeat the same lie enough times and people eventually believe you. 

...you could've fooled me!

 

place is full of trump supporters.

[skeedary]

4 hours ago, BarBoy said:

I see you live in Lampang.  

 

Lucky bugger.

 

Might see you soon!

Lampang until now is Thailand's best kept secret 

[bubblegum]

26 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

...and why on earth not?

I like the place as it is without more of Bob Smith types.

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

I like the place as it is without more of Bob Smith types.

...any room for a Colin Neville?

[pakchongneil]

You forgot to put in Indian and Russian free

[kingstonkid]

21 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

...any room for a Colin Neville?

Samet would be good go to the resorts away fro the dock

[rughead]

Hat Yai , the deep south 

[DualSportBiker]

4 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Enough is Enough.

 

Tourist ghettos no more, I am done with them, the tourists (especially you know who) are destroying this beautiful country with their terrible manners, unruly kids and general disregard for others around them and the environment. I need some new scenery or I am going to go mad (if I haven't already reached that point)..

 

I would like to enlist the help of fellow AN members in asking where do you recommend I go with the following stipulations: 

 

1. Hardly any farangs in sight, especially tourists.

2. Remote places, can be mountainous, towns, city, beach, jungle, whatever.

3. Reasonable food

4. Reasonable room rates

5. Real local people, no tourist BS.

 

I welcome any and all input into this topic. Finally the tourist ghettos have worn me down - it took a while but it has finally happened. Now I understand Joe who retires way out in the sticks on a nice plot of land and a couple water buffalo with his young thai bride. There is something real in that kind of life that the ghetto just cannot provide. 

 

Wherever the tourists are going this high season, I'm not. I want a comprehensive list of places that are truly off the beaten track.

 

Thank you in advance!

There is a short answer and a long answer.

 

The short answer is to stay away from Downtown Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Cha Am, Phuket, and Chiang Mai. There are second-tier T.Traps in some Rayong towns on the coastline, and the islands are off for you as well.

 

The long answer is any town in the following list. In some you might need to avoid the 'capital' of the province, but you can be close and still be a million miles from a place dense with tourists.

 

Samut Prakan 

Ang Thong 

Lop Buri 

Sing Buri 

Chai Nat 

Saraburi 

Trat 

Chachoengsao 

Prachin Buri 

Nakhon Nayok 

Sa Kaeo 

Ratchaburi 

Kanchanaburi 

Suphan Buri 

Samut Sakhon 

Samut Songkhram 

Phetchaburi 

Prachuap Khiri Khan 

Lamphun 

Lampang 

Uttaradit 

Phrae 

Nan 

Phayao 

Chiang Rai 

Mae Hong Son 

Nakhon Sawan 

Uthai Thani 

Kamphaeng Phet 

Tak 

Sukhothai 

Phitsanulok 

Phichit 

Phetchabun 

Nakhon Ratchasima 

Buri Ram 

Surin 

Si Sa Ket 

Ubon Ratchathani 

Yasothon 

Chaiyaphum 

Amnat Charoen 

Bueng Kan

Nong Bua Lam Phu 

Khon Kaen  

Udon Thani 

Loei 

Nong Khai 

Maha Sarakham 

Roi Et 

Kalasin 

Sakon Nakhon 

Nakhon Phanom 

Mukdahan 

Nakhon Si Thammarat 

Surat Thani 

Ranong 

Chumphon 

Songkhla 

Satun  

Trang 

Phattalung 

Pattani 

Yala 

Narathiwat 

 

[BarBoy]

1 minute ago, DualSportBiker said:

There is a short answer and a long answer.

 

The short answer is to stay away from Downtown Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Cha Am, Phuket, and Chiang Mai. There are second-tier T.Traps in some Rayong towns on the coastline, and the islands are off for you as well.

 

The long answer is any town in the following list. In some you might need to avoid the 'capital' of the province, but you can be close and still be a million miles from a place dense with tourists.

 

Samut Prakan 

Ang Thong 

Lop Buri 

Sing Buri 

Chai Nat 

Saraburi 

Trat 

Chachoengsao 

Prachin Buri 

Nakhon Nayok 

Sa Kaeo 

Ratchaburi 

Kanchanaburi 

Suphan Buri 

Samut Sakhon 

Samut Songkhram 

Phetchaburi 

Prachuap Khiri Khan 

Lamphun 

Lampang 

Uttaradit 

Phrae 

Nan 

Phayao 

Chiang Rai 

Mae Hong Son 

Nakhon Sawan 

Uthai Thani 

Kamphaeng Phet 

Tak 

Sukhothai 

Phitsanulok 

Phichit 

Phetchabun 

Nakhon Ratchasima 

Buri Ram 

Surin 

Si Sa Ket 

Ubon Ratchathani 

Yasothon 

Chaiyaphum 

Amnat Charoen 

Bueng Kan

Nong Bua Lam Phu 

Khon Kaen  

Udon Thani 

Loei 

Nong Khai 

Maha Sarakham 

Roi Et 

Kalasin 

Sakon Nakhon 

Nakhon Phanom 

Mukdahan 

Nakhon Si Thammarat 

Surat Thani 

Ranong 

Chumphon 

Songkhla 

Satun  

Trang 

Phattalung 

Pattani 

Yala 

Narathiwat 

 

I really appreciate your input.

 

Thank you!

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, rughead said:

Hat Yai , the deep south 

is it safe?

[ronster]

5 hours ago, BarBoy said:

I would like to enlist the help of fellow AN members in asking where do you recommend I go with the following stipulations: 

 

1. Hardly any farangs in sight, especially tourists.

2. Remote places, can be mountainous, towns, city, beach, jungle, whatever.

3. Reasonable food

4. Reasonable room rates

5. Real local people, no tourist BS.

Vanuatu , Juarez, Sinaloa, Afghanistan and many more places.

[BarBoy]

Just now, ronster said:

Vanuatu , Juarez, Sinaloa, Afghanistan and many more places.

didn't realize they were in THAILAND.

 

another one who's too bone idle to read the OP.

 

Yawn.

[frank83628]

5 hours ago, BarBoy said:

and what would I do there?

Work on your book?

[Olmate]

4 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

didn't realize they were in THAILAND.

 

another one who's too bone idle to read the OP.

 

Yawn.

Try  austrayya  BB, look out your window! 

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

Work on your book?

yep, no matter where I am, that is the ultimate goal.

 

need somewhere quiet and away from the gopniks..

[BarBoy]

1 minute ago, Olmate said:

Try  austrayya 

...which part of Thailand is that?

[ThisIsJustSomeNameChosenBy]

Phrao, Chiang Mai (not sure if the same as mentioned before) is beautiful and hardly any tourists. It's ~100km from Chiang Mai.
There's hot springs northwest to the valley. It used to be free and there was hardly anyone ever there.
Plenty of nice places to go to with your motorbike. The road to the north (direction of Fang) is a nice drive through woods and hills.

North/Northeast you can also drive on dirt roads to some Lahu villages and Doi Mon Lan (which is also accessible by asphalt roads). Dirt road at 19.426095, 99.226404.

I live in Chiang Rai and now with the "high season" there's plenty of tourists at the waterfalls and other "tourist" spots.

If you aren't going there, it's mostly easy to avoid the tourists.

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, ThisIsJustSomeNameChosenBy said:

Phrao, Chiang Mai (not sure if the same as mentioned before) is beautiful and hardly any tourists. It's ~100km from Chiang Mai.
There's hot springs northwest to the valley. It used to be free and there was hardly anyone ever there.
Plenty of nice places to go to with your motorbike. The road to the north (direction of Fang) is a nice drive through woods and hills.

North/Northeast you can also drive on dirt roads to some Lahu villages and Doi Mon Lan (which is also accessible by asphalt roads). Dirt road at 19.426095, 99.226404.

I live in Chiang Rai and now with the "high season" there's plenty of tourists at the waterfalls and other "tourist" spots.

If you aren't going there, it's mostly easy to avoid the tourists.

Thanks a lot for your input.

 

Much appreciated 🙂 

[thesetat]

5 hours ago, BarBoy said:

I would like to enlist the help of fellow AN members in asking where do you recommend I go with the following stipulations: 

 

1. Hardly any farangs in sight, especially tourists.

2. Remote places, can be mountainous, towns, city, beach, jungle, whatever.

3. Reasonable food

4. Reasonable room rates

5. Real local people, no tourist BS.

I live in such a place now.. And surely will not be sharing it with you or the AN members viewing your post. to do such a thing would destroy the very thing you seek. 

If you are not happy where you live or are visiting. Rent or drive a car around the country. I am most certain you can find what you seek if you go off looking yourself. 

But my guess is that you actually like being in tourists ghettos. Bars, bargirls and whores, fights and attacks on people, lots of foreigner tourists.. Aggressive locals and businesses. 

I hope you do not find the city i live in. That is for sure. 

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, BarBoy said:

asking where do you recommend I go

 

May I suggest the lakeside City of Phayao with it's views of the Kwan Phayao and mountain ranges to the west.

Yes, there are a few tourists that stop off on their way to The Golden Triangle, but otherwise very much a "locals" resort.

 

Situated on Highway Number 1 in Northern Thailand, 100kms south of Chiang Rai in Lanna.

 

 

[BarBoy]

7 minutes ago, thesetat said:

I live in such a place now.. And surely will not be sharing it with you or the AN members viewing your post. to do such a thing would destroy the very thing you seek. 

If you are not happy where you live or are visiting. Rent or drive a car around the country. I am most certain you can find what you seek if you go off looking yourself. 

But my guess is that you actually like being in tourists ghettos. Bars, bargirls and whores, fights and attacks on people, lots of foreigner tourists.. Aggressive locals and businesses. 

I hope you do not find the city i live in. That is for sure. 

another rather nasty, unhelpful reply..

 

Thanks for nothin!

[BarBoy]

6 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

 

May I suggest the lakeside City of Phayao with it's views of the Kwan Phayao and mountain ranges to the west.

Yes, there are a few tourists that stop off on their way to The Golden Triangle, but otherwise very much a "locals" resort.

 

Situated on Highway Number 1 in Northern Thailand, 100kms south of Chiang Rai in Lanna.

 

 

Looks nice and sleepy.

 

Just how I like it! 🙂 

[bkk6060]

Nan.

[KhunLA]

8 minutes ago, thesetat said:

I live in such a place now.. And surely will not be sharing it with you or the AN members viewing your post. to do such a thing would destroy the very thing you seek. 

If you are not happy where you live or are visiting. Rent or drive a car around the country. I am most certain you can find what you seek if you go off looking yourself. 

But my guess is that you actually like being in tourists ghettos. Bars, bargirls and whores, fights and attacks on people, lots of foreigner tourists.. Aggressive locals and businesses. 

I hope you do not find the city i live in. That is for sure. 

I really don't recommend where I live, though far from a secret.  Not that it would interest any single folks, especially if they rely on some sort of nightlife (P4P) for companionship, or can't manage a conversation in Thai with a local.

 

Have noticed an influx of westerners in the area.   As I use to be the only westerner shopping at Makro most times, and now I see at least 5 others in there, while I'm shopping.   Although they are couples (farang / farang), and rarely, occasionally a farang / Thai couple, aside from wife & myself.

 

They don't seem to be fond of Thai food, as most seen at the only 2 westerner catering venues surfside.  

 

To the topic title, OP seems to want to leave his ghetto (if even in TH), and start a new one 

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I really don't recommend where I live, though far from a secret.  Not that it would interest any single folks, especially if they rely on some sort of nightlife (P4P) for companionship, or can't manage a conversation in Thai with a local.

 

Have noticed an influx of westerners in the area.   As I use to be the only westerner shopping at Makro most times, and now I see at least 5 others in there, while I'm shopping.   Although they are couples (farang / farang), and rarely, occasionally a farang / Thai couple, aside from wife & myself.

 

They don't seem to be fond of Thai food, as most seen at the only 2 westerner catering venues surfside.  

 

To the topic title, OP seems to want to leave his ghetto (if even in TH), and start a new one 

now now, Mr...

 

I thought you were alright!!

[malathione]

4 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Baan Rak Thai, about 20 km from Mae Hong Son.

 

Nan

 

Phu Chi Fa.

 

Baan Pha Hi, near Doi Mae Salong.

 

Phrae

 

Phrao

 

Phayao

Ban Rak Thai, no tourists? When were you there, a couple of decades ago? Likewise Phu Chi Fa. That has both tourists and no rooms at all unless you consider a tent a room.

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, malathione said:

Ban Rak Thai, no tourists? When were you there, a couple of decades ago? Likewise Phu Chi Fa. That has both tourists and no rooms at all unless you consider a tent a room.

Tents are fine with me.

 

Al fresco is always good, especially this time of year!

 

 

[malathione]

Just now, BarBoy said:

Tents are fine with me.

 

 

Likewise. Though, like you, tourists are not.

[Freddy42OZ]

6 hours ago, BarBoy said:

and what would I do there?

 

 

Die of boredom.

[Expat68]

6 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Enough is Enough.

 

Tourist ghettos no more, I am done with them, the tourists (especially you know who) are destroying this beautiful country with their terrible manners, unruly kids and general disregard for others around them and the environment. I need some new scenery or I am going to go mad (if I haven't already reached that point)..

 

I would like to enlist the help of fellow AN members in asking where do you recommend I go with the following stipulations: 

 

1. Hardly any farangs in sight, especially tourists.

2. Remote places, can be mountainous, towns, city, beach, jungle, whatever.

3. Reasonable food

4. Reasonable room rates

5. Real local people, no tourist BS.

 

I welcome any and all input into this topic. Finally the tourist ghettos have worn me down - it took a while but it has finally happened. Now I understand Joe who retires way out in the sticks on a nice plot of land and a couple water buffalo with his young thai bride. There is something real in that kind of life that the ghetto just cannot provide. 

 

Wherever the tourists are going this high season, I'm not. I want a comprehensive list of places that are truly off the beaten track.

 

Thank you in advance!

Try Loei province. Mountainous, Places you choose to stay you will not see expats but if you want to see, head to Chiang Khan or Loei City (BigC, Lotus, Global, Makro also has its own airport). At the moment at dawn it is 13°C, in the daytime 27°C. Hope that helps