Tours and Excursions

An essential travel guide for Thailand is 'A Different Brand Of English' by Andrew Mason (Poseidon Books) - it will advise you of scams to avoid, security and cultural tips and give you a guided tour around some excellent Bangkok markets up to Kanchanaburi and that province's infamous sites, like the Bridge Over the River Kwai, War Cemetery, Thai-Burma Railway Museum and Hellfire Pass through to the border at Three Pagodas Pass. A Hotel guide, a restaurant list with comments on the food to a language guide - this is comprehensive, it even advises on how to get in to Bangkok's infamous 'Big Tiger' - Maximum Security Prison (and then out again!).  There are interviews in the book, pages and pages of photographs, advice from the State Dept and Foreign Affairs, with exclusive comments by the Australian Prime Minister John Howard for this guide.   A must for travel to Thailand.  367 pages. <http://www.poseidonbooks.com/a_different_brand_of_english.htm>