The legendary, bestselling, and longest-running guide to Southeast Asia's most popular destination is the only guide to Thailand written for travelers on any budget. Includes suggested itineraries for classic routes, tailored trips, off-road excursions, and travel with children. 150 maps.From The Publisher:Thailand was once an enigmatic paradise of pristine beaches, hidden temples and remote mountain refuges. Here's the secret: it can still be that way. Let Lonely Planet guide you past the world of the tourist brochures and into the true heart of this glorious land.About The Author:Joe Cummings first became involved in South-East Asian Studies while a political science student at Guilford College, a Quaker school in North Carolina, and then later as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand. Since then he has worked as a translator/interpreter of Thai in San Francisco, completed a master's degree in Thai language and Asian art history at the University of California, Berkeley, has been an East-West Center Scholar in Hawaii, taught university English in Malaysia, served as a Lao bilingual studies consultant in Oakland, California, and led one of the first American group tours to Laos.Fluent in Thai and Lao, Joe is the author of Lonely Planet's popular Thailand (winner of the 1995 Lowell Thomas Best Guidebook award) Thailand's Islands & Beaches, Bangkok, Myanmar (Burma), Thai phrasebook, Laos Phrasebook, as well as LP travel atlases for these two countries. He has also contributed to Lonely Planet guides to South-East Asia, China, Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei and Indonesia. He occasionally writes for Geographical, Outside, Worldview, Earth Journal, World & I, BBC Holidays, The Independent and other periodicals.
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