Rip-roaring Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok’s great boulevard of dreams and schemes, is the city’s longest thoroughfare. Stretching 490 kilometres to the Cambodian border, it is also one of the longest roads in the world. For most visitors, Sukhumvit’s first, hyperactive mile-and-a-bit might be more than enough — a glorious overload of …
2 Blue smoke curls languidly above the huts as though from an opium pipe (until a generation ago, the preferred nightcap around here). Pigs squeal uneasily, catching a whiff on the wind not of poppy but fried pork. A four man band — oboe, drum, gong and cymbal — dins …
“I walked out the door, a bit dazed. I had ten dollars and two not-quite diamonds and it was summer in Siam.” John Borthwick‘s first day in Thailand seemed far from auspicious — but it has been uphill from thenon. Dropping him in the middle of everything from three-day tribal …
