Thailand Handbook

Footprint's Thailand Handbook is the most informative and practical guidebook available to this fascinating, and sometimes perplexing, where McDonald's and mobile phones sit side by side with saffron-clad monks and Brahmanic rites. Comprehensive coverage of accommodation and restaurants in Bangkok and other key destinations. Insider information on how to get off the well-mapped'routes'to little known destinations in regions like the distinctive Northeast. Illuminating background information on Thailand's history and culture, the archaeological and artistic heritage and present-day politics and economics. "By far the most informative guide in recent years." Far Eastern Economic Review "Footprint Handbooks, the best of the best!" Le Monde, Paris www.footprintbooks.com