How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book

This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Thailand’s Beaches and Islands, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editor’s Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Thailand’s Beaches and Islands. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Thailand’s Beaches and Islands are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

You’ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Thailand’s Beaches and Islands. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

© 2018 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

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Table of Contents

Thailand’s Beaches and Islands’s Top 10 Attractions

Editor’s Choice

Introduction: Lazy days and island ways

People And Culture

Decisive Dates

History

Religion

Insight: A Calendar of Celebrations

Southern Thai Cuisine

Nature And Environment

Insight: Underwater Landscape

Outdoor Activities

Introduction: Places

Bangkok

Insight: Temple Art and Architecture

Eastern Seaboard

Northern Gulf Coast

Ko Samui, Ko Phangan and Ko Tao

Northern Andaman Coast

Phuket

Krabi, Ko Phi Phi and Ko Lanta

Trang, Satun and Songkhla

Transport

Language

Further Reading