Bangkok Baby's Travelogue

Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Thailand

Bangkok Boy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:03:48 +0000

On the way to Pattaya you will find one of the popular destination for Thai families, the Kaho Kheow open zoo. Unlike the normal zoo, the animals at this open zoo are not kept inside cages. Instead, the authorities of Khao Kheow zoo created small kingdoms for each animal. So you can actually go into the gang of deers and start feeding them, or feed a banana to Giraffe with your own hands. Of course dagerous animals like tiger and lion are kept in a bit isolated area with strong walls and electric fence. But even these area are built in such a way that the visitors can see the animal clearly without any obstruction.

One of the major attractions of Khao Kheow open zoo is it’s night safari where you can comfortably site in zoo vehicle and travel around the zoo in the darkness of the night to watch animals and birds which come out only in night. At present the zoo accomodates around 8000 animals from 300 species.

The Khao Kheow Open Zoo was opened to the general public during the year 1980. In 1992, the area of the zoo was expanded to 2,000 acres within the Khao Kheow-Khao Chom Puo wildlife Sanctuary as apart of it.

Address of the Khao Kheow Zoo:
235 Moo 7 Bangpra Sriracha, Chonburi Province, Thailand.
Telephone: 0-3829-8195, 08-9544-6994
You can also email them at: pr@kkopenzoo.com

Bangkok Map

Bangkok Boy — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:38:37 +0000

I know many of you are taking the help of maps to find places of interests. I thought I will add a map of Bangkok to my site which will help the readers of this site. Google maps is a good solution for interactive maps. You have the ability to zoon in and zoom out, pan (move) etc. So I thought I will add a bangkok map using google maps facility. Here it is. (Unfortunately, at present google Thailand map is available only in Thai language)

Google Bangkok Map
You can use the slider on the left side of the map to zoon in and out. Click on the + sign to zoon in. Also you can click on the arrow buttons to move the map. Click on the Map button on right upper corner to get a regalar map of Bangkok.

Bangkok Hotels Search

Bangkok Boy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:45:11 +0000

A while ago I had posted a nice tool to search and compare hotels from major cities. But it was not specifically designed for searching bangkok hotels. Some of you have asked for a search box which can be used exclusively to find hotels in Bangkok and here it is.

Find Hotels in Bangkok

List of all Bangkok Hotels and Resorts

It is a simple tool but gets you a huge list of available Bangkok hotels. Select the dates from the drop down menu. Choose the star ratings if you are particularly interested 5 star hotels or 3 star hotels etc. You have the facility to choose the currency to see the hotel rates. Click on the search button. A new window will open with the list of all Bangkok hotels in it. If you would like the list of hotels to sorted according to star rating, location or customer rating, you can do so by choosing the appropriate option from the sort drop down menu.

Loi Krathong Festival, Thailand

Bangkok Boy — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:12:19 +0000

Loi Krathong or Roi Krathong is perhaps the most colorful festival in Thailand. A krthong is raft, traditionally made out of Banana leaves. Thai people float away Krathong in river on the Loi Krathong day to float away their ill fortunes. This festival is also to apologize to the river goddess Ganga. The people of Thailand apologize to the river goddess for polluting the water and promise to do better during the coming years.
Loi Krathong is celebrated during the full moon day of 12th Lunar month. This is normally during mid November. This year, 2007 the Loi Krathong falls on 24th November. It is Saturday and I expect a big crowd near the banks of Choprya River with devotees gathering around to float the Krathongs. Here is a colorful video which explains everything about the Loi Krahtong fetival in Thailand.

It is believed that the Loy Krathong fetival is originated from the Indian festival Deepavali which is also celebrated almost at the same period.

Bangkok to Maldives Trip

Bangkok Boy — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:58:01 +0000

Spending holidays in Maldives has been always a dream for me. I wanted to go to this beautiful island nation for a very long time now. So finally when I made my trip to Maldives I was literally delighted. For an average Asian visiting Maldives could be expensive and I am no exception. Since I got a good package deal from club med which includes flight tickets I could afford it.
Bangkok to Male Flight:
Bangkok airways operate direct flights between Bangkok and Maldives. As far as I know this is the only direct flight to Male from Bangkok. They have only weekly two flights, one on Monday and the other on Thursday. So, if you are planning to visit Maldives from Thailand make sure that you book your flight tickets well in advance.
Maldives Weather
The Republic of Maldives is located in Indian ocean at the south west of Sri Lanka. The monthly weather in Maldives can affect your trip. Rain can play a spoil sport. So make sure that it is not raining when you are in the island nation. Normally the southwest monsoon will hit Maldives during June to August. During this period it usually rains in the island.

Maldives Beaches
The beaches of Maldives are simply spectacular. They have sandy beaches with crystal clear sea water which is ideal for snorkeling and diving. As you know Thailand is also a good place for underwater adventures. Hope you have seen the Koh Samui photos and Krabi photos which I posted earlier. What I felt is, the corals are more beautiful in Thailand, but the sea water was more clear in Maldives and the place is less crowded and more natural.
I enjoyed every moment I spent in Maldives and hope to go there again. I have taken many photos and I will post some pictures from Maldives in the next update.

Phuket Air Crash

Bangkok Boy — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:42:19 +0000

At least 90 people are killed when thebudget airline flight with 130 people aboard crashed on landing at Phuket airport in heavy rains and strong winds yesterday. Flight OG 269, operated by airline One-Two-Go, had flown to Phuket from the Thai capital, Bangkok. As many as 42 people are injured out of which many are in serious condition.
I haven’t updated this site for a very long time now. But yesterday’s air crash shook me badly. After the tsunami which hit a couple of years ago in Phuket, disaster struck this region again. This air crash is Thailand’s deadliest aviation accident since December 1998, when 101 people were killed after a Thai Airways crashed in similar fashion near the southern region. I wish the survivors the very best to get well soon. Our prayers are with you.

Picture from BBC UK

5 Star Buffet in bangkok

Bangkok Boy — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:38:31 +0000

When you are in Bangkok you might want want to enjoy a wide variety of food. One of the best option for you to enjoy different taste is to choose a nice buffet in Bangkok. There are many restaurants in Bangkok which offers oriental buffet as well as continental buffet for both lunch and dinner. My friend Chris compiled a list of best 5 star buffet in Bangkok. I suggest you to visit Chirs’s post Buffet info at Bangkok to see the complete list of top quality buffets in Bangkok.

SEO Bangkok. Second webmaster meet at Bangkok

Bangkok Boy — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:00:36 +0000

Hope you guys and gals remember about my post with pictures of Bangkok SEO meeting we had last year. The webmasters in Bangkok are planning for a second seo meet in Bangkok soon. I guess it will be more like a internet marketers’ gathering than an seo bangkok meeting. The gathering is going to be held on July 8 . You can see the latest updates on this thread at digital point.
I have many questions about search engine optimization. One of my sites which is two years old and which got a PR7 link pointing towards it actually dropped its ranking for last three months. Yesterday, all of a sudden it is on the number 1 spot for its desired keyword. What is going on? Second thing, I think google’s nofollow attribute did not stop spammers and the comment spam is altime high now. Many webmasters believe that rel=”nofollow” tag actually did not help at all. Infact many honest webmasters lost a chance to get a decent link for their efforts to contribute some real good discussions.
Hope this seo meet in Bangkok will be informative and good one. Looking forward for to it.

Amazon Email Scam

Bangkok Boy — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:43:12 +0000

Today I received an email allegedly from Amazon with a subject tagline read as Account Information. Since I have an amazon account I read the full email. The email said that my amazon account was compramised and I need to immediately visit the amazon site and login. Here comes the scam. When you click on www.amazon.com in the email it redirects you to a different site. Infact the text is not linked to amazon.com. Here is the full emai which I received today.

Dear Amazon® member,

We are contacting you to inform you that our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with Amazon’s User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved. To secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some additional information from you for the following reason: We have been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported as lost or stolen, or that there were additional problems with your card.
This process is mandatory, and if not completed within the nearest time your account or credit card may be subject for temporary suspension.
To securely confirm your Amazon information please click on the link bellow:

http://www.amazon.com/ Scam: Amazon.com is linked to a different site!

We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.

For more information about how to protect your account please visit Amazon Security Center. We apologize for any incovenience this may cause, and we apriciate your assistance in helping us to maintain the integrity of the entire Amazon system.

Thank you for using Amazon!
The Amazon Team

Privacy Notice © 1995-2007, Amazon.com Inc. or its affiliates.

If you click on the link the url will get redirected and it shows up a webpage similar to amazon.com. Here is a screen capture of the scam webpage.

Now, experienced webmasters may not fall for such scams. But newbie webmasters often fall for such dirty scams. I am sure amazon will soon take some action against this.
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Bangkok Baby on MySpace

Bangkok Boy — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:37:29 +0000

I just signed-up for myspace and built my myspace page. I was bit late I guess, because I didn’t get to choose the name Bangkok Baby for myspace short url. Someone already took that name at myspace. But hey, it is nice to see that there are other Thai girls on myspace. Anyway I got a similar name, that is Bangkok Babe.
Here is a screen capture of my myspace page. If you have got a myspace page, add me in your friend’s list. I would love to meet many more friends at myspace. I am sure there are lot of guys and gals on myspace who are interested in visitng Thailand and other Asian countries. And many westerns love Thai food and other Asian food. So, feel free to me add me your friend and I will do the same. Happy myspacing.