Sometimes when you trying hard to figure out or sort out all information in order to make your travel plan, you might not want your brain stuck at it is the final destination but all you want is about your personal travel guide and make sure it goes well by planned. How does that work?
That's good question. Here is a blog to guide you;
How to get start?
How to get start?
Where about?
Where to go?
Which part: north, south, central, east or west, this part I'm saying about exploring Thailand.
From now, you will get all tricks and make your travel plans smooth and get you confident.
This blog is all about my travelling in style. The Thai Traveller featured tourism industry. I hope you find some enjoyed my travel blog; and you can share with me how is your travelling style. I will be happy to hear any parts of your travelling.
Getting started with the land of smile "Thailand"
You may or may not heard about Thailand, but now let me being part of Thais to guide you, come and explore with me! :)
Getting to know Thailand!
A bit of history;
The charming land full of history. Thailand has evidence of human habitation in Thailand that has been dated at 40,000 years before the present.
The charming land full of history. Thailand has evidence of human habitation in Thailand that has been dated at 40,000 years before the present.
The ruins of Wat Chaiwatthanaram at Ayutthaya. The city was burned and sacked by a Burmese army under the King Hsinbyushin. After the fall of the Khmer Empire in the 13th century, various states thrived there, such as the various Tai, Mon, Khmer and Malay kingdoms, as seen through the numerous archaeological sites and artifacts that are scattered throughout the Siamese landscape. The first Thai or Siamese state is traditionally considered to be the Buddhist kingdom of Sukhothai, which was founded in 1238.
Following the decline and fall of the Khmer empire in the 13th–15th century, the Buddhist Tai kingdoms of Sukhothai, Lanna and Lan Xang (now Laos) were on the ascension. However, a century later, the power of Sukhothai was overshadowed by the new kingdom of Ayutthaya, established in the mid of 14th century in the lower Chao Phraya River or Menam area.
Stupas at Ayutthaya Historical Park;
Ayutthaya's expansion centred along the Menam while in the northern valley the Lanna Kingdom and other small Tai city-states ruled the area. The Khmer abandoned Angkor after the Ayutthaya forces invaded the city. Thailand retained a tradition of trade with its neighbouring states, from China to India, Persia and Arab lands. Ayutthaya became one of the most vibrant trading centres in Asia. European traders arrived in the 16th century, beginning with the Portuguese, followed by the French, Dutch and English.
After the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767 to the Burmese, King Taksin the Great moved the capital of Thailand to Thonburi for approximately 15 years. The current Rattanakosin era of Thai history began in 1782, following the establishment of Bangkok as capital of the Chakri dynasty under King Rama I the Great. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, "A quarter to a third of the population of some areas of Thailand and Burma were slaves in the 17th through the 19th centuries."
Despite European pressure, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation that has never been colonized. This has been ascribed to the long succession of able rulers in the past four centuries who exploited the rivalry and tension between French Indochina and the British Empire. As a result, the country remained a buffer state between parts of Southeast Asia that were colonized by the two colonizing powers, Great Britain and France. Western influence nevertheless led to many reforms in the 19th century and major concessions, most notably being the loss of a large territory on the east side of the Mekong to the French and the step-by-step absorption by Britain of the Malay Peninsula.
20th century.
The losses initially included Penang and eventually culminated in the loss of four predominantly ethnic-Malay southern provinces, which later became Malaysia's four northern states, under the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909.
During World War II, the Empire of Japan demanded the right to move troops across Thailand to the Malayan frontier. Japan invaded the country and engaged the Thai Army for six to eight hours before Plaek Pibulsonggram ordered an armistice. Shortly thereafter Japan was granted free passage, and on 21 December 1941, Thailand and Japan signed a military alliance with a secret protocol wherein Tokyo agreed to help Thailand regain territories lost to the British and French. Subsequently, Thailand declared war on the United States and the United Kingdom on 25 January 1942 and undertook to 'assist' Japan in its war against the Allies, while at the same time maintaining an active anti-Japanese resistance movement known as the Seri Thai. Approximately 200,000 Asian labourers (mainly romusha) and 60,000 Allied POWs worked on the Thailand–Burma Death Railway.
After the war, Thailand emerged as an ally of the United States. As with many of the developing nations during the Cold War, Thailand then went through decades of political instability characterised by coups d'état as one military regime replaced another, but eventually progressed towards a stable prosperity and democracy in the 1980s.
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| MAP OF THAILAND |
There are five regions of Thailand; which each region geographically different from the others that contains unique of cultural like CENTRAL Ayuthaya historical Park. Life style of Bangkok metropolitan. Mixed cultures, as well as nature attractions NORTH - Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai. Stunning landscape Koh Samui Island, and tropical Island Andaman sea Phuket - Krabi, and spectacular Southern beaches SOUTH part of Thailand, living style mixed varieties culture EASTERN, NORTH-EASTERN Thailand.
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| Koh Phi Phi, Krabi, Thailand |
