Dark Tourism: The Bridge on the River Kwai
The destruction of the bridge over the River Kwai represented a crucial turning point in the Pacific War. The Japanese invasion of Thailand in 1941 is generally considered one of the key events that...
View ArticleSathorn Unique: How I Failed to Infiltrate Bangkok’s “Ghost Tower”
Bangkok doesn’t agree with me… or perhaps, rather, it agrees too much. Either way, on my last night in the city I decided that it would be a superb idea to get myself good and drunk, before trying to...
View ArticleThe Fall of Siam & the Lost Temples of Ayutthaya
Located 80km north of Bangkok, the ancient Siamese capital of Ayutthaya sits on an island at the confluence of the Lopburi River, the Chao Phraya River and the Pa Sak River. Nowadays it’s little more...
View ArticleWang Saen Suk Hell Garden: A Glimpse of the Buddhist Underworld
Hidden away down an overgrown road, in a village not far from Bangkok, there lies a curious museum known to many as the ‘Thailand Hell Horror Park’. Built adjacent to a local temple, the Wang Saen Suk...
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