When Elephants Rest: The Three Graveyard Stories of Thailand The idea of an elephant graveyard has fascinated people for centuries. It’s one of those myths that refuses to die, a mystical place where aging elephants wander off to die alone, mysteriously gathering their bones in a secret clearing. It sounds like something out of a … Read more
The Soviet Submarine That Never Reached Thailand Jesada Technik Museum’s Lost U-194 Jesada Technik Museum in Nakhon Pathom was famous for its unusual collection of vehicles. Visitors could see vintage cars, motorcycles, aircraft, helicopters and other machines that seemed to have escaped from a railway museum, a film set or the imagination of a particularly … Read more
Four Strange But True Stories That Could Only Happen in Thailand Thailand Never Fails to Surprise One of the joys of travelling around Thailand is that you never quite know what’s waiting around the next corner. Sometimes it’s an ancient temple hidden in the forest. Sometimes it’s a forgotten railway station or a mysterious cave. … Read more
Why I Avoid One Thai Road When we planned our road trip to the coast of Prachuapkirikhan last year, it should have been simple. Travelling from anywhere near Bangkok there’s an obvious route that online maps will tell you to follow, and it looks perfectly reasonable and logical on the screen of a smartphone. Instead, … Read more
How We Survived Thailand’s Big 2011 Flood Yesterday there was a six-lane highway outside our front gate. This morning it had disappeared beneath a fast-moving brown river. Within minutes, water was exploding under the compound wall and racing towards our house. We had just enough time to climb upstairs and watch our world disappear. Some … Read more