The town of Chanthaburi is 120 kilometres from Pattaya. It has a gemstone quarter where gems from Thailand, Laos and Myanmar are traded. The city has Thailand's largest Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, built by the French in th... read more
The old part of Phuket Town can be called an open-air museum. The main street of historic Phuket is called Thalang Road. Nearby are the streets of Phang Nga, Krabi, Dibuk and Yowarat. They are formed by buildings built in the Sino-Portuguese style... read more
A few kilometres north of Phuket Town, near the Tesco Lotus Shopping Centre and Samkong Temple, is an old tin mine on which an ethnic Thai Village has been built. Here you can find 4 restaurants, a playground for children and pavilions housing sou... read more
One of Thailand's largest pearl farms is located northeast of Phuket on Nagannoy Island. Established in 1964, it supplies pearl jewellery both nationally and internationally. Especially valuable is the fact that the pearls are grown here in se... read more
