Thailand Tuttle Travel Pack: Your Guide to Thailand's Best Sights for Every Budget

by Jim Algie

Explore the regal grandeur of Bangkok's Grand Palace, glide through the city's busy canals on a long-tail boat tour, and bask in the tropical splendor of Phuket's Mai Khao Bay. Visit a temple on holy Mt. Doi Suthep, then take an elephant ride at the Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang. Tuttle Pocket Guide Thailand offers you all these experiences and more. It features only the best sights and activities that Thailand has to offer, chosen for a wide range of budgets and interests by a longtime Thailand resident. Easy-to-use and easy-to-carry, it is packed with information, handy lists, maps, photographs, and suggestions for how to make the most of your stay—so you can spend all your time enjoying your visit.

Author Jim Algie lays out his top picks in three simple chapters:
Thailand's Best Sights highlights 21 must-see sights and must-have experiences, from the many faces and flavors of its modern metropolis to southern Thailand's fabled beaches and bays, and from World Heritage Sites like the ancient Siamese capital of Ayuthaya to places of natural wonder like Khao Yai Nature Park.
Exploring Thailand offers a wide variety of excursions in every part of the country, from Chiang Mai in the mountainous north to "Little Tuscany" in the country's center and the famous Chatuchak weekend market of Bangkok; and from kayaking through a marine park to a bicycle tour through Thailand's first kingdom.
Author's Recommendations makes specific recommendations for: the hippest hotels and resorts; the coolest nightspots; the best spas; the best eco-trips, treks, and outdoor activities; the most kid-friendly places & things to do; the best food and eateries; the best shopping; the best museums and galleries; and much more.

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 2012

About the author

Jim Algie has been a punk rock musician, journalist, wildlife conservationist and security guard in a lunatic asylum. His non-fiction collection Bizarre Thailand: Tales of Crime, Sex and Black Magic and his short fiction collection, The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand, illuminate the country's dark and sexy side. In 2018, he published an expanded version of On the Night Joey Ramone Died, part memoir, part punk history and part literature with a front cover blurb from noted mystery author Timothy Hallinan, "The funniest sad book and the saddest funny book I've read in a long time.