Thailand is a top tourist destination that has beautiful nature, culture, and lovely lifestyles. You can find wonderful places in many cities in Thailand. In each city, there are very amazing places. Here’s I pick of the most popular places to visit in Thailand.
10 The Best Destinations in Thailand
1. Bangkok
Krung Thep Maha Nakhon is the full name for Bangkok, which is the capital city of Thailand. This city is the center of everything such as the Central Government Offices, Big Brand business, transportation & principal port, hospital, and education so these make Bangkok a large and busy city.
Bangkok has historical events from 100 years ago, so there are many authentic and ancient places such as temples and palaces:
- Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew)
- The Grand Palace
- Temple Of Dawn (Wat Arun)
- The Palace of Vimanmek Throne Hall
- Nightlife Market, people love shopping and eating at lovely prices.
Thais pay attention to eating and food so you can see they sell food everywhere through the street and boats.
2. Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand and is another destination to visit and experience for seeing beautiful natural attractions such as mountains, rivers, and waterfalls.
This city has nice weather that is cooler than Bangkok, so the lifestyle is cool and relaxing. There are chic styles of coffee shops and ultimate markets for people who like to feel chill walking.
Besides, Chiang Mai is an ancient and historic city for 700 years, and its culture and art are influenced by Burmese culture. You can see the beautiful art paintings in the temple.
If you get in town, Chiang Mai has a unique culture and lifestyle, which is a chic style of a coffee shop, ultimate markets for people who like to feel cool walking and relaxing in the city.
3. Ayutthaya
Ayutthaya is famous for being old and having historical value, which has ancient monuments, temples, pagodas, pagodas, and other things that are still left for future generations to see the beauty.
Visiting 9 temples on a 1-day trip is a popular activity for Thais Buddhists. They believe that will take the good luck in their life.
Ayutthaya is not just an old temple, but there are also cafes and restaurants. Shopping in the floating market in addition to watching Thai traditional performances. You can sit and chill in a good photo corner in the cafe.
4. Sukhothai
Sukhothai is a world heritage city as well, which was the location of the first kingdom of the Thai people more than 700 years ago.
This is the original and ancient kingdom of Thailand. There are many historical attractions. Temples and it is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is not too far from Bangkok.
The Historical Park is the main tourist attraction that is located just west of Sukhothai city. It is a very big area so you can explore by bicycle to see many little temples and the giant Buddha statue.
5. Pattaya
Pattaya is famous for tourists that are not far from Bangkok. It is on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand. Pattaya is a city for tourists that is easy to find accommodation, hotels, restaurants, and chic cafes.
You can see that Pattaya has a variety’s entertainment for tourists. The popular attractions are beaches and islands such as Coral Island (or Koh Larn), Jomtien Beach, and Pattaya Beach. You can shop and chill at Pattaya Floating Market.
There are a lot of activities such as snorkeling, scuba diving, walking the street at nightlife, and exciting Tiffany’s Cabaret Show.
The new place in Pattaya, Tiger park Pattaya has cute tigers to take photos, with and play closely with. You can enjoy driving an off-road Safari and seeing Monsters Aquarium Pattaya.
6. Phuket
Phuket is called the pearl of the Andaman sea. People will know Phuket has the sea charming and the colors of a tourist city.
Phuket is located on the west coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea, which is the largest island in Thailand.
Phuket is a paradise island, probably the first destination for tourists to take photos of turquoise seas, and white sand beaches such as Rawai, Patong, Karon, Kamala, Kata Yai, Kata Noi, and Mai Khao.
Walking around the city to see the beauty of the culture, and lifestyle that is influenced by the Chinese. You can enjoy taking photos at Phuket old town and relaxing.
7. Kao Sam Roi Yot National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาสามร้อยยอด)
Kao Sam Roi Yot National Park is very rich in natural resources that cover the sea, forest, mountains, and freshwater-marsh fields.
The highlight of the tourist attraction:
– Phraya Nakhon Cave (ถ้ำพระยานคร) is the one unseen in Thailand. Inside the cave, there is a “Phra Throne Hall” which was built in 1890 or the Pavilion of 5th King Chulalongkorn.
– There are another 2 caves that are worth seeing, including Tham Kaew and Tham Sai (caves). They are a cave that is still natural, and a spectacular cave with stones that are translucent like glass.
– Thung Sam Roi Yot, the lotus field is the biggest lake in Thailand.
8. Surat Thani
The famous tourist place in Surat Thani, there are many places. Whether it’s natural attractions such as islands which are beautiful coral, clear water, white sand beach, and nice coconut juice.
Highlight islands:
– Koh Samui is a famous tourist island in the south of Thailand. This island is a perfect tourist destination, with millions of tourists visiting both Thais and foreigners a year. There are many types of accommodation, convenient transportation, and the airport.
– Samui’s landmark has rocks with a funny shape that is called Grandpapa-mama on Lamai beach. They look like male and female sex genitalia. Lamai beach is very beautiful, peaceful, and suitable for people who travel to chill out.
– Koh Nang Yuan is a unique tropical island that is famous for the Open Sea which has 3 little islands linked together by sand beaches.
9. Kanchanaburi
Kanchanaburi is located in the western region of Thailand. The main attraction has amazing waterfalls, historical monuments, Caves, and an ancient Model of Town.
People will know the Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, which has a famous attraction to visit the memorials in World War II Sites. In addition to visiting other historical sites such as Chong Kai War Cemetery, and Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (Don Rak).
Another beautiful attraction is Erawan Waterfall (น้ำตกเอราวัณ) that is a large waterfall located at the Erawan National Park. It is such a beautiful waterfall and emerald green water. This Waterfall has 7 layers by the distance from the bottom floor to the top floor is 1500 meters.
Incredibly, there are natural hot springs in public and hotel which is popular to sit and soak in for relaxation.
10. Trang
Trang is a famous tourist city in the south of Thailand that is well-known for beautiful beaches and islands with clear water, and a calm atmosphere such as Koh Lao Liang, Koh Kradan Koh Ma, Koh Chuak, Koh Mook, etc.
The highlight attraction is Morakot Cave (Emerald Cave) which is located on Koh Muk. It is a wonderful cave in the middle of the sea.
From the entrance to the cave was a small hollow. We must go swimming or rowing a boat depending on high and low tides with a distance of 80 meters.
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This article is just my opinion, and the place the people will know well for the guides but still there are really many attractions. I can tell that there are more of these.