The Lao capital city of Vientiane offers a varied selection of attractions and enticements to visit. Key attractions include the Patuxai Victory Arch, Pha That Luang Pagoda and the Lao National Museum. A walk along city streets takes visitors past colonial edifices and chateaus which could have been uprooted from French provincial towns and plonked down in downtown Vientiane.
Modern day travellers have the chance of following in Rudyard Kipling’s footsteps by taking the Road to Mandalay. As part of an expansion of ticketing choices for travel in Myanmar, 12GO now offers the option of buying tickets for Yangon Central to Mandalay trains.
Rangers in Bangkok’s Lumpini Park have been busy capturing some of the facility’s resident monitor lizard population this week. Officials attached to the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority’s environmental division had estimated there were more than 400 of the reptiles living in the park and that this was too many.
Local government authorities in Sihanoukville have introduced a tax for tickets on charter boats travelling to offshore islands. The US$3 surcharge came into effect earlier this month and is applicable to all tickets to either Koh Rong Sanloem or Koh Rong.
Culture officials in Luang Prabang have announced that the US has approved the funding needed to help restore the city’s oldest temple. Culture Department boss Sisavad Yeladchai told media sources the US had agreed to pay US$132,000 to complete the second phase of the Vat Visounnarath restoration.
Lifeguards and local authorities on Phuket’s west coast say heavy seas have eroded beaches. The worst affected beaches are Nai Yang and Bang Tao. These are on the fairly exposed upper half of the island’s shoreline.
Performing arts aficionados in Bangkok have the rare opportunity of seeing Russia’s Helikon Opera perform Carmen this evening. The venue for the acclaimed operatic performance is the main hall at the Thailand Cultural Centre in the Huai Khwang District of the city.
Authorities in Bangkok say up to 20,000 cyclists joined a rally to mark ‘Leave the Car at Home Day’ in the city yesterday. Participants pedalled a route around the historic Rattanakosin Island area of the Thai capital.
Following its expansion into the Vietnamese travel market, 12GO ASIA now offers convenience for travellers wishing to embark on the country’s definitive rail experience. Reunification Express trains travel between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City every day and travellers can book their seats or sleeping berths with 12GO ASIA.
As part of its rapid expansion along the key travel routes of Southeast Asia, 12GO ASIA has added ticketing options to include Myanmar and Yangon. We have teamed up with Thai AirAsia, Nok Air and Thai Lion Air to offer convenience when making reservations for flights from Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport to Yangon Airport.
Two national parks in Thailand’s nortern Chiang Mai Province have placed several waterfalls off-limits to visitors. Heavy rainfall in northern Thailand over the past few days has swollen rivers and turned normally picturesque waterfalls into raging torrents.
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Wildlife conservationists in western Cambodia say they have shifted 206 rare Royal Turtles to a newly established reptile conservation facility. The new home for the Cambodian national reptiles is the Koh Kong Conservation Centre.
Thailand’s WWII themed Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum took sixth place in the just released TripAdvisor awards for Asia. The Kanchanaburi Province attraction was one of six Southeast Asian museums to feature in the travel website’s Travellers’ Choice Top 10 for the region.
The upper regions of Thailand have been hit with heavy rain over the past few days which has caused flooding in quite a few places. After making landfall in Vietnam on Monday, Tropical Depression Rai swept across to Thailand at an estimated speed of 20kph.
Thailand’s Transport Ministry has announced the abolition of fees for using toilets at two thirds of the nation’s intercity bus stations. The move is a part of the government’s aim of improving hygiene and ensuring people have access to basic bathroom facilities.
The Thai national rail company has announced a project which will see third class carriages revamped on major inter-provincial routes. The State Railway of Thailand will refurbish toilets in the carriages in addition to adding padded seat upholstery and changing noisy fans for quieter ones.
Authorities in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi have amended statutes to allow certain eateries and nightspots to stay open for longer at weekends. Licensed establishments in the central district of Hoan Kiem can now stay open until 02:00 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.
Thailand has confirmed a visiting Malaysian government delegation has put forward a proposal to build a high-speed international railway line. Thai transport-minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith told reporters the joint project would connect the capital cities of the two nations.
Authorities in the Cambodian seaside town of Sihanoukville say they plan to hire lifeguards to keep an eye on swimmers. A spokesperson said the plan was to bring in a total of 30 lifeguards and also to install watchtowers and a public address system.