May 09, 2012

Khao San tops splash spots
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2012/04/khao-san-tops-splash-spots/
The top splash venue in Bangkok for tourists is Khao San road. However, the study also found that most tourists were concerned more about natural disasters than terrorism threats such as the one that resulted in a car bombing of a hotel in Hat Yai ...


Bangkok ? a guide for first-time visitors
http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/bangkok-a-guide-for-first-time-visitors/
Whether or not you're bedding down in the infamous ground zero of backpacker culture that is Khao San Road, this lively area crammed with foreigners, bars, travel agents and stalls selling cheap clothes and DVDs has to be experienced at least once.


Security tightened on Khao San Road for Songkran festival
http://www.mcot.net/cfcustom/cache_page/353312.html
BANGKOK, April 13 ? Police stepped up security measures with extra vigilant teams on the capital's Khao San Road, a popular tourist zone for backpackers and other budget-conscious travellers, and surrounding areas, to assure that the Thai traditional ...


ScandAsia @ Songkran Festival at Khaosan Road
http://www.scandasia.com/viewCalendar.php?coun_code=th&cal_id=7528
ScandAsia invites all readers to join a fun day of water splashing during the Songkran Festival in Khaosan Road. Khaosan Road is famous for being the street where fun-loving residents and visitors to Thailand armed with water pistols, buckets and bowls ...


Tollway racing
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-from-news/291618/tollway-racing
Thaifah owned the Buddy Village Hotel on Khao San Road. Also found dead was Pol Maj Sakdipat Pathumarak, inside his Toyota Fortuner sports utility vehicle. The injured man was Amnart Klinyu, 30, driving a Mazda. He's recuperating at Vibhavadi Hospital.


Take the boat out of Bangkok
http://edition.myjoyonline.com/pages/tourism/201204/84994.php
Sadly, most visitors to the city experience only a tiny section of the ferry route, shuttling between Saphan Taksin pier in the south and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha or Khao San Road in the north (there are piers close to both).


Tourism bonanza over Songkran | Bangkok Post: news
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/transport/288890/tourism-bonanza-over-songkran
In Bangkok, businesses on Khao San Road have employed at least 50 more security staff, bringing their number to 200 yesterday. The road has turned into a sea of revellers, about 60% of them foreign tourists, since the Songkran period began on Friday, ...


Water-splashing New Year in Thailand
http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/04/26/fea03.asp
It is the traditional Thai New Year which is celebrated on a grand scale at several popular venues such as Khao San road in Bangkok, Khao new road in Khon Kaen and Chiang Mai city. These areas were packed with thousands of Thais and foreigners ...