Travel questions, answered
Clear answers on where to stay, how to plan your route, visiting temples, and finding food and markets.
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Choose a base that fits the days you want.
Railay or Ao Nang. Decide how you want to arrive.
Short answer Choose Railay if you want to wake up among limestone cliffs, beaches and climbing crags, and can accept that every arrival and departure is by boat.
Phuket. Choose a base that is not a party beach.
Short answer Skip Patong, the island’s nightlife centre, and look at Kata or Kata Noi for a relaxed beach with a small town, or Karon for a family-friendly middle ground.
Khao Sok. A night on the lake, or a room by the jungle?
Short answer Yes, if you want misty mornings among limestone karsts and wildlife-watching from the water, and you can accept simple floating rooms reached only by longtail boat.
Decide where to go and how long to give it.
North or south? Choose the day, then the place.
Short answer Choose Chiang Mai for temples, northern food and a hill outing.
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