Thailand Handbook

Footprint's Thailand Handbook is the most informative and practical guidebook available to this fascinating, and sometimes perplexing, country 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. Book jacket.