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ajaymoditravels · 2 years

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Best Places to Visit in Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a magnificent country located in the center of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It shares borders with Laos and Cambodia to the east, Myanmar to the north, the Andaman Sea to the west, and the Gulf of Thailand to the south. Bangkok is the capital and also the busiest city of activity and commerce in Thailand. With nearly 40 million foreigners flying into the country every year, Thailand is one of the top destinations in the world and one of the best beach destinations in Asia.

Phang Nga Bay

A charming and angelic bay surrounded by Phuket, Phang Nga, and Krabi, Phang Nga Bay is one of the most picturesque places to visit in Thailand. Here, the only thing you will feel like doing is taking a dip in the emerald-green waters. Phang Nga Bay is just 95 kilometers away from the above destinations and has a popular island called Khao Phing Kan which is also known as James Bond Island. A key scene in the movie featured a glimpse of a sea stack called Ko Tapu, now a popular tourist destination. Other attractions to see at the bay include aquatic grottoes and limestone caves where you can also kayak and explore clastic rock ceilings.

Grand Palace, Bangkok

A visit to Thailand's capital without visiting the Grand Palace is like not visiting the Taj Mahal while in Agra. Located in the complex, the Grand Palace is a famous attraction that attracts tourists from every corner. Located on the banks of the Chao Phraya River, the complex consists of an array of halls, pavilions, wats, and other buildings, with sprawling lawns, impressive courtyards, and lush gardens. It offers a picturesque setting, perfect for taking stunning photographs. A famous attraction nearby is the Temple of the Emerald Buddha; It is situated on the left side as you enter from the main Visechaisri Gate.

Similan Islands

Thailand's postcard-perfect destination, the Similan Islands, consists of a group of nine upwellings formed by hot magma and is located off the coast of Phang Nga province in southern Thailand. Every year, the island witnesses a melange of tourists and thrill seekers who come from all directions to participate in activities like diving and island hopping. The islands have rich coral reefs and underwater rock formations that offer a fascinating experience to a variety of people. The two sites most visited by divers are East of Eden and Elephant Head Rock. The Similan Islands are best visited during March when the water is clear and the air is calm, you can see colorful species of fish waving their tail fins in the turquoise waters around the Similan Islands.

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market vibrates with utter confusion yet many tourists visit it due to its uniqueness and colorful atmosphere. There is no rest for the vendors, dressed in traditional Moe home shirts and straw hats, selling all kinds of fruits and vegetables. The best way to explore this unique market is to hire a boat taxi that will navigate you through the maze of narrow canals. There are three sub-markets within Damnoen Saduak Market, Ton Khem, Hia Kui, and Khun Phitak of which Ton Khem is the largest. It is full of amazing things from delicious street food to traditional clothes and handmade jewelry. Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is definitely a place to visit and the best time to visit is from 7 am to 9 am to witness the business hours.

Chiang Rai White Temple

Chiang Rai White Temple or Wat Rong Khun attracts visitors with its striking architectural beauty. At first glance, your heart will race against time at the sight of this perfect white structure; the exterior is so perfectly designed that it more or less looks like a static temple. It has a strange design symbolizing life and death. There is a bridge of the "Wheel of Rebirth" on the premises and below you can see the outreaching hands. Similarly, there are many statues and symbols each of which has its own meaning, and to truly understand the depth of Wat Rong Khun, a visit here is a must.

Ko Phi Phi, Krabi Province

The island does not limit itself to swimming in its calm waters, sunbathing on the white sand beaches, or diving to witness the colorful marine life, Ko Phi Phi has much more to offer than usual. The island is 38 km southwest of Krabi and is a destination that is always at the top of every beach lover's list. One of the main reasons to visit here is its lively nightlife. Lazing around is never an option here, as party people flood the beach after sunset. Here, you can also learn or participate in water activities like snorkeling, scuba diving, and kayaking. Phi Phi is a group of islands and in many; Ko Phi Phi Don is a permanently inhabited island and is always crowded with locals and tourists. It is famous for its stunning coral reefs and picturesque beaches and is also known as the location for the shooting of the movie "The Beach" in the year 2000.

Erawan National Park

Surrounded by mixed deciduous forests, Erawan National Park offers itself an interesting place to visit. This tourist attraction is located in western Thailand and is filled with many interesting sites to keep one occupied within the area. Besides spotting wild mammals, reptiles, and birds, a famous attraction is Erawan Falls, named after the three-headed white elephant in Hindu mythology.

Any way you look at it, Thailand is one of the best travel destinations in the world. From its stunning natural landscapes and awe-inspiring temples to its delicious cuisine and fascinating culture, Thailand has something for everyone.

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ghumindiaghum · 1 month

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Thailand is very beautiful country in SouthEast Asia, Thailand is attracts millions of travellers every year because it offer beautiful beaches, The Rich History and Culture of Thailand, Paradise for adventures water sports activities, the weather, lively nightlifes more importantly The Cheap Cost of Travel among all other countries.

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taste-thewaste · 22 days

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27 sentence Sunday (I counted) 5.5.24

Happy Sunday! Hope everyone had a good weekend and has a good week ahead. Say hello to my beautiful new banner by the bestest bestie @england-would-fall!! It matches my icon which she made also! Thank you to @o0anapher0o @blueeyedgrlwrites and @tailsbeth-writes for the tags!

This Sunday you get to meet my 3rd installment in the ‘let’s play dress up’ series (Alex in a little black dress ; Henry in a tutu) which is Henry in a bikini fic. I had a revelation on it yesterday and finally started really working on it. So here’s a way too long clip of it, because I can never shut up.

The trip to Thailand had been Alex’s idea. He’d slid into bed one night clutching pages of printouts like a travel agent from the early 2000s, pages depicting a private villa with its own private pool overlooking acres of vegetation. A balcony with soft, overstuffed chairs. A bathroom to die for with a glass ceiling and stepping stones and rainforest shower heads. A gigantic king-sized bed with egyptian cotton sheets. Complete seclusion. Just for the two of them.

“This is exactly what we need, Hen,” Alex had whispered, nudging his nose gently into Henry’s neck. They had been dragged out of the closet against their will, kicking and screaming. They had been forced to perform their relationship in front of the entire world. “I want to go somewhere where I can love you with just the two of us. Where we are out and happy, but we don’t have to do it for anyone but us.”

Henry had studied the printouts with his Serious Prince Face and then looked at Alex. “Oh, my love. You just want to have sex in a private pool.”

Alex’s lips had twitched into a smile. “Well, okay, that, too.”

Now that they’re here, Alex is determined to make the most of it, and ‘the most of it’ to him is dressing Henry in this tiny bikini that he’d found online and getting him dripping wet (in more ways than one).

He watches as Henry reaches out and traces a finger along the strings on the side. The bikini is simple, all white, with ties at the hips and the back. Alex had passed up all the other, flashier swimsuits for this one because he knows how beautiful Henry will look in it. The way his chest will fill out the front, just enough. The spot where his hips dip. His soft, lightly tanned body covered just enough in white fabric that strains to contain him. His beautiful boyfriend, the love of his life, laid practically bare for him in this.

Henry picks it up and holds it out to Alex. “Help me?”

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mariacallous · 2 months

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On an island in the Singapore Strait, a thicket of apartment blocks peers mournfully over the sea. A corps of green-shirted gardeners dutifully tends the lawns and herbaceous borders along the roadside. A few cars slip along smooth roads to a commercial center with gleaming marble floors. Amidst the hundreds of closed shopfronts three restaurants are open—a fried chicken chain, a small café, and a gleaming and empty hot pot restaurant. Five duty-free shops are doing better business; some young men are stocking up on beer and Copper Dog whiskey at 11 a.m.

Welcome to Forest City: planned residents, 700,000; current residents, roughly 9,000. Launched in 2014 as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the mega-project is headed by once-real estate giant Country Garden, a behemoth that now sits on the edge of bankruptcy.

At first glance, the project seems yet another tale of a ghost-city built on the back of a Chinese real estate bubble—and then doomed by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic slowdown. Yet Forest City’s story is also a deeply Malaysian tale, involving property-speculating sultans, nationalist politicians, and the country’s complex relationship with Beijing and its own ethnically Chinese minority.

Building a new city to lodge hundreds of thousands of residents on four new artificial islands in the Singapore Strait was always an ambitious venture. But the main market was not locals, but rather speculative buyers from the People’s Republic of China. When sales opened in December 2015, buyers flooded in, many of them buying “pre-sales” of uncompleted apartments. “You’d have buses coming over from Singapore every day filled with people who just landed,” said Tan Wee Tiam, head of research at KGV International Property Consultants. “There were over 1,000 agents in the sales hall, and it still wasn’t enough. … You felt like you were in China.”

Buyers were often looking for not a permanent residence but an investment that could also be a potential holiday home, or accommodation for children who were headed to study in Singapore. Some were reportedly even offered the opportunity to buy a flat in China and get one free in Forest City, said Christine Li, head of research in the Asia-Pacific for Knight Frank.

Yet this reliance on the Chinese buyers also left the project brutally exposed to changes in Chinese policy. The first blow came in 2017, when the Chinese government suddenly imposed capital controls preventing individuals from moving more than $50,000 out of the country annually. The minimum price of a Forest City apartment sits at around $75,000 and can be as much as $3.5 million. Then came the pandemic years which froze international travel—and stamped hard on Chinese real estate and growth.

Yet, Forest City’s staff seem to be holding out hope. Shane Lim, a hire from Singapore, showed me around and assured me that the place is working to attract buyers from across the world, including the Middle East, Indonesia, and Thailand. Still, he estimated that about 70 percent of his colleagues in the sales team are from China.

Halfway through my tour, a Malaysian man calling himself Ozzy introduced himself and his two wives. Now living in the United States, he’s searching for a place to buy in Malaysia that he can use to visit his daughter in Singapore and rent out when he’s away. Looking around, though, he’s unconvinced.

“Look at how empty this place is,” he said. “I’d only be able to rent it out for one or two months a year. … When I visited in 2018 this place was packed. Now there’s no one here. It’s like it’s haunted.” Lim stared at his shoes until Ozzy moved off. He then firmly assured me that the sales hall is busier on weekends.

A wet Wednesday afternoon might not be a peak sales period, but it is hard to escape the reality that the putative new city is barely lived in. Surveying one of the towers I descend from the 34th floor to the first, looking for signs of occupancy—a pair of shoes at the door, furniture seen through the windows that face the corridor, or even just curtains drawn over said windows. The place is eerily well maintained but empty. Just 25 of the 390 flats show any signs of current occupancy.

I met a single resident, a Malaysian Indian woman who said she lived in Forest City with her husband. Declining to give her name, she informed me a neighboring tower is busier. That would not be hard to believe. Some floors in this tower were completely empty with flats whose doors open to the touch, revealing light-filled marble interiors into which dead leaves have blown. Others had notices of a residents’ meeting dated October 2022 still taped to the door.

According to Li, there are signs that buyers may be slowly coming back. But she also suggested that Country Garden might have aimed too high, used to China’s experience of breakneck speed urbanization, supported by strong government support for infrastructure development. That policy created plenty of “ghost cities” in China itself—but until the recent real estate crisis, also huge profits.

Forest City has also suffered from being a political football since its launch, something Country Garden may well not have anticipated. “I did notice Chinese developers tend not to focus on the political climate,” Li said. “They are not used to the idea of general elections, change of government, and change of policies overnight.”

Despite its vast scale, the first time locals heard about Forest City was in 2014, when fisherman woke up one day to find barges dumping sand off the coast. Newspapers dug into the story, revealing that Country Garden’s main partner was none other than the sultan of Johor state, Ibrahim Ismail.

The tie made sense. Many businesses take on Johor royals as partners, benefiting from the influence they wield in the state. The Malaysian government is also bent on transforming southern Johor into a new economic hub, the Shenzhen to Singapore’s Hong Kong. The city was made a duty-free zone. When further investigations also revealed rushed environmental reviews, it took diplomatic protests from Singapore for the central government to intervene and ensure the proper process was followed.

However, things began to shift when the Malaysian government’s grip on power loosened. Rocked by the world’s largest corruption scandal, the China-linked 1Malaysia Development Berhad, voters turned against it. And at 93 years old, former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad exited retirement to lead an opposition filled with former opponents, previously imprisoned under his watch, against a government coalition he once led for 22 years.

Forest City became one of Mahathir’s favorite targets. Inveighing against government corruption and waste, he accused the government of planning to sell out Malaysia to foreigners. Most provocatively, he claimed that the thousands of mainly Chinese buyers of Forest City apartments would be allowed to settle, become Malaysian citizens, and vote in its elections. In a country where ethnically Chinese make up 23 percent of the citizenry—and are often stereotyped as wielding undue political influence due to their wealth—the claim was explosive.

After his shock triumph in the 2018 elections, then-Prime Minister Mahathir followed through on his threats declaring that foreigners would not be allowed to buy property in Forest City. Despite legal challenges, the announcement apparently hit Forest City sales hard.

Five years and a series of dizzyingly complex political maneuvers later, the current Malaysian government is led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. His support is mainly built by ethnic minority-backed parties that triumphed in 2018. To secure his grip on power he needs two things. The first is economic growth. The second is increased support from Malay voters, to which end he has courted the sultans who act as power brokers in their states and take turns acting as Malaysia’s head of state. Perhaps none is more influential than the sultan of Johor, who started his five-year tenure in February this year.

In this context, Anwar seems to have rediscovered the charm of Chinese investment, and Forest City. He has repeatedly praised the Belt and Road Initiative, and in August last year he announced Forest City would be designated a special financial zone with residents offered multiple-entry visas, fast-track entry for those working in Singapore, and a flat income tax rate of 15 percent.

The sultan of Johor has also suggested reviving a proposed high-speed rail link between Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, with an extra stop at Forest City. And who knows what will happen. After, all the $10.5 billion Melaka Gateway project—launched under the Belt and Road Initiative and apparently scrapped in 2020—is also back underway, after finding new support from the state and federal governments. The developer behind the project recently acquired a major new shareholder, the sultan of Johor.

But the heyday of Chinese investment in Malaysia may well not be coming back. Ten years since China launched the Belt and Road Initiative, it has begun to pull back sharply on its overseas investments. China’s own economic slowdown and business wariness about the increasingly capricious regulatory environment is part of the story. But, the large number of projects gone sour also appears to have made Chinese investors more wary.

Meanwhile, Malaysia is struggling not to get left holding the bag. Should Country Garden go bankrupt, it’s uncertain what will happen to Forest City. At that point the Malaysian government could face the unpalatable option of a potential bailout by the Chinese government, leaving a chunk of Malaysian land in Beijing’s hands. Alternatively, it could step in itself—becoming the proud proprietor of what the developers still proclaim to be “A Prime Model for Future Cities.”

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