4 Star Hotels In Ko Samui

The Grand Palace is Bangkok's most-visited landmark: a walled royal complex in Rattanakosin that also holds Wat Phra Kaew, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. Entry costs 500 THB (about Rs 1,250) for foreign visitors, it opens 08:30 to 15:30 daily, and it enforces the city's strictest dress code, with shoulders and knees kept...

Phi Phi sits in the Andaman Sea, roughly halfway between Phuket and Krabi. For most Indian travellers it is a day trip. You leave your Phuket hotel after breakfast, spend the day snorkelling and island-hopping, and get back by evening. The name covers two islands, not one. Phi Phi Don is the inhabited one, with beaches, hot...

Wat Phra Singh is the most revered temple in Chiang Mai's Old City, a 14th-century Lanna monastery built in 1345 and home to the Phra Buddha Sihing, the golden Buddha image the temple is named after. It opens daily from about 06:00 to 18:00, the grounds are free to walk, and foreign visitors pay around 40 THB (about Rs 115)...

Wat Chedi Luang is a 14th-century Buddhist temple in the heart of Chiang Mai's Old City, built around the largest chedi (stupa) in the city. The great brick chedi once rose about 85 metres; a 1545 earthquake brought down its upper section, and it stands roughly 60 metres today, a striking half-ruin you can walk right up to....

Elephant Nature Park is an ethical elephant sanctuary about 60 km north of Chiang Mai, in the Mae Taeng valley, where rescued elephants roam free with no riding, no shows and no forced bathing. A single-day visit costs THB 2,500 (around Rs 5,450) and includes hotel pickup, lunch and an English-speaking guide.

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