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 ...
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.
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.
TRAVEL: An oddity in Bangkok
http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=171595
The Khao San Road has acquired legendary status as the place where Leonardo DiCaprio hears about a beachside paradise in the film The Beach (2000), and a million and more backpackers have since come to find fun or fulfilment.
2 killed, one hurt in high-speed crash on tollway
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/2-killed-one-hurt-in-high-speed-crash-on-tollway-30180885.html
In the driver's seat of the Porsche, whose front section was wrecked, they found the body of Thaifa Chayaworaprapa, 54, Buddy Group executive and owner of the Buddy Village Hotel on Khao San Road. The driver of a third car caught up in the collision, ...
Crash forces crackdown on speeding
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/290925/deadly-expressway-crash-forces-crackdown-on-speeding-drivers
He owns the Buddy Village Hotel on Khao San Road. A Mazda car was also involved in the accident. An injured man, Amnart Klinyu, 30, was pulled out of the vehicle and taken to nearby Vibhavadi Hospital. Police are investigating the cause of the crash.
Cheap Eat of the Week: Hawker Bar's laksa
http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do/Eat/May-2012/Cheap-Eat-of-the-Week-Hawker-Bars-laksa/
It's not unlike Khao San Road's Northern Thai khao soi, yet still quite different from Restoran Malaysia's standard Singapore curry laksa and even more distinct than the sour, fish-based, asam-style Penang laksa. But, as with any culture's street dish, ...
Next time I'm in Bangkok, I'd like to take some trips using the public bus system.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/travel/Next-time-Im-in-Bangkok-Id-like-to-take-some-trips-30180603.html
It starts from Bang Lamphu, which is near Khao San Road, goes to Rajdamneon Road passing Victory Monument, then to Charoen Krung Road, the first road built in Bangkok, to China Town, then Pahurat, or little India, before crossing the Chao Phraya River ...
