Bangkok’s Chinatown is Changing
Bangkok’s Chinatown is one of the city’s top tourist draws, and for good reason. The soft glow of neon signs tints clouds of steam as they roll up from food stalls cooking everything from fresh-roasted chestnuts to bird nest soup. The languages swirl around you – Dutch, English, Chinese, French, Japanese – while people point, […]
Bangkok Biking Boom
We’ve written about Bangkok Biking before, but it’s time to revisit (recycle?). Bangkok cycling is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance these days, after motorbikes replaced bicycles as the preferred mode of city transport in the 1960’s. More and more people are taking up the activity again, and several high-profile events have put the hobby – […]
Bangkok Transport: Flowing Better Every Day
Believe it or not, it was only in 1999 that Bangkok got its first mass transit system in the BTS, the two-line electric train. Before that – as some of Bangkok’s older residents will tell you – the city was a nightmare of clogged streets and frustrated commuters. Indeed, in-car urinals called Ezee-Pees were must-have […]
Online Travel Research
Online Travel Research: What’s Good, What’s Bad, and What to Avoid When Smiling Albino first came to Southeast Asia, the Internet was in its infancy. There were rudimentary blogs and pages with photo albums, but nothing even remotely resembling the selection today’s travelers have. In 2016, we are spoiled for choice. Indeed, there is actually […]
Bangkok Revisited
What can I do in Bangkok if I’ve already been there before? Due to a geographical location that can only be described as ‘advantageous’, Bangkok is one of the world’s busiest transit points, which means that even if it’s not a final destination, millions of travelers each year spend a few glorious days in the […]