The 10 most popular things to do in Thailand besides go to the beaches

entertainment in Thailand is everything – communicating with exotic nature, culture and traditions of the Thais, spicy adventures, often crossing the line of the permitted. It will be interesting for both adults and children. You will find something for tourists not only in Phuket or Pattaya, but also in any other city, and of course in the capital of Thailand.

Thai Venice

The Thai capital, sprawling along the banks of the Chao Praya River, is permeated by a network of canals. There are more than a hundred and fifty of them. They are still used as transport highways. There are many companies that organize tours of Thai Venice. Most of them transport tourists on river streetcars. Others, which is much more interesting, use traditional Thai “long-tail boats” longtail. These are docked, for example, at Tha Chang Pier near Bangkok’s Royal Palace.

Higher-than-the-birds

You can see the panorama of the Thai capital from several Bangkok viewpoints. The highest and most popular are the rotating vantage point on the 84th floor of the Bayok Sky skyscraper and the 63rd floor (Sky Bar Cafe) of the State Tower, which shares the top spot.

Shopaholic Paradise

Entertainment in Thailand for women is as varied as it is for men, but the highlight is Thailand’s giant shopping malls. The largest of them (rather the largest in Southeast Asia) is the Central World Plaza in Bangkok, a place where they sell everything from panty week sets to computer equipment. You can even go to the Siam Paragon mall with your family, sending your husband and kids to have fun at the oceanarium or movie theater. There are also a number of large Central Festival malls scattered throughout the Land of Smiles, which can have your wallet empty in a matter of hours.

Jungle Chinatown

South of the King’s Palace in Bangkok is Jaowarat Street, around which is the so-called China Town. This district of Bangkok, which has preserved the aura of colonial Indochina to the greatest extent, beckons travelers with forbidden entertainment and glittering treasures. Many large and small street bazaars offer silks and jewels, fry unknown delicacies, and have shards of mirrors embedded in the walls of the houses to ward off demons. Entertainment in Thailand for men can be found just there, in unnamed alleys around the hotel with the very unambiguous name of Texas Suki.

In the middle of the night, you’ll be able to find a lot of entertainment in Thailand.

Finding “strawberry”

Adult entertainment in Thailand is most often localized to individual neighborhoods. But there is one locality that could be called the “city of vice.” It is Pattaya, where the whole streets are reserved for the establishments with dubious reputation – go-go bars and other hot spots, and the tranny shows gather crowds of thousands of people. The most “wild” of them are the shows that are given in cabarets Tiffany and Alcazar. There are similar establishments in Phuket – Simon Cabaret and in Bangkok – Calypso Bangkok Theater on Charoen Krung Street.

Eastern Culinary Delights

The eastern food preferences of Thais may shock Europeans. However, the attempt to try everything that is sold in the street makashnitches – as they call the mobile food outlets in Thailand – can also be considered an extreme entertainment. Perhaps the grasshoppers or cockroach fries will be the sharpest memory of the trip. In the port town of Krabi Town, the evening food courts on holidays and weekends take on epic proportions. The main task of a tourist is not to lose his or her head from the swirling aromas and not to end up in one of the squeaking pans (just kidding). There you can try and quite edible noodles, fried in a wok, rice in the hundreds of species, mango “wonder of the tropics” and other exotic fruits. Whether to try fried insects, snakes and other reptiles is up to you.

Why did we include a meal like this in this article? It’s simple, in case you’re “lucky” to entertain yourself in a Thai toilet afterwards 🙂

Thai Disneyland

The Thais, developing the tourism industry, did not reinvent anything new, so entertainment for children in Thailand have quite a familiar format, although with a fair share of Asian exoticism. At least the U.S. and European Disneyland elephants do not give performances. But in Phuket, at Phuket FantaSea Park, it is possible. It is one of the most popular island places family vacations in Thailand.

There are traditional attractions, stylized Thai folklore, a huge fast food restaurant. The highlight of the program is the Palace of Elephants pavilion, although this epic facility is more like the Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat. Elephant shows there begin in the evenings. Gray thick-skinned giants do incredible tricks and behave like trained cats in the theater Kuklachev. Kids just pee their pants in delight. Adults love it too.

Entertainment in Phuket in Thailand is not limited to this Disneyland. On the island you can visit the Splash Jungle water park, visit the oceanarium, the elephant farm.

The island is not limited to this Disneyland.

Visit the natives

If you’re interested in natural, not made-up exotics, then head to Doi Inthanon National Park. Pristine rainforests on the slopes of the mountains, waterfalls, villages of provincial Thais, where you can taste coffee made of beans grown right there. It is an activity for the active and physically fit, as most of the trails are hiking.

Nong Nuch Park and Butterfly Garden

Pattaya is not just forbidden entertainment. There is Nong Nooch Park, a beautiful example of French park-style landscaping with ranked avenues and flower beds, just outside the city. Part of the park is the Butterfly Garden and the best collection of orchids in Southeast Asia. There are theatrical performances in the park, in which elephants also take part.

Elephant walks

Indian elephants, unlike African elephants, are friendlier and freely trained. That is why all over Thailand there are dozens or even hundreds of schools for elephants, where they get their future “profession. So, if you’ll be vacationing near … for example, Chiang Mai, you can look into such a training center and observe their “training”. Classes are held every day until lunch, and after that you will be allowed to climb an elephant and ride through the jungle of Northern Thailand.