Running Fork is bringing the curtain down on 2014 with a positive eye on good things to come with its top five travel predictions for 2015. After an up and down 2014 most people just want to break out from their personal or professional reality and have a good laugh in a fun, lighthearted destination. And we always aim to ... Read More »
Within here lies the secret of the perfect margarita. Except for the rare exception, homemade margaritas always surpass any ‘professionally’ mixed offering served in bar settings. More often than not it’s because they pour crap tequila. What’s the point of a drink that you need three of before the medicinal effects take hold. Here is Running Fork’s favorite guide to the best ... Read More »
Luang Prabang’s Kuangsi Waterfall is best experienced early in Laos’ monsoon season. Most of the peak season mob is gone and by late July the waterfall is flushed and flowing clean. Obviously if a monsoon squall hits then any waterfall is off limits. However within a day or sometimes less depending on water flow Kuangsi Waterfall is safe. It has a brief bit ... Read More »
This truly is ‘hearts and minds’ time in Phuket. The second phase of the government’s island wide beach clean up started in Rawai today, 27 July, with little fanfare. No local press was around to see a battalion of Royal Thai Army soldiers start assembling around 08:00. And after a few short speeches by local officials and a couple PR photos the boys in green ... Read More »
Who wants to eat Thai food in a tree house? This fork reckons most everyone, especially families with children. That must be why Tamachart Restaurant in Phuket Town is still doing a brisk businesses selling reasonably priced Thai food. All from a restaurant build in and around a tree packed with kitsch décor. Once the darling of hipster backpackers, Thais ... Read More »
Patong Beach is so beautiful and lovely now, it makes birds sing. Done and dusted, let the celebration and back slapping begin. Hooray for the ‘super moon‘ high tides for washing most of the evil scum away. Now it is quickly coming back home to roost. Could someone please urgently come back and take away all the rubbish left behind? After tearing ... Read More »
Pak Bang Seafood by Rawai’s seashore is history. But the rumour about super moon destroying seaside table seating is a forking lie. Individual shop owners, not the super moon, tore it down. However the Rawai seawall (and another big tree) took another super hit with the remaining seaside restaurants to the north getting damaged. A digger was working overtime trying to rebuild Rawai’s seawall that fails to prove it ... Read More »
Phuket River Canoe (PRC) officially launches its new tour business on 15 July in Chalong. And owner Khun Aod is boldly going where no Phuket-based tour operator has gone before. He searched to create something different that would combine river canoeing with ecological restoration of damaged mangrove forest in Chalong. “If Phuket River Canoe is successful that means guests ... Read More »
Chiang Mai Craft Beer (CMCB) is now supplying high quality craft beer to thirsty Northern Thailand. The company recently opened and started importing an exceptional line up of quality craft beers, shipped all the way from America, Japan and Norway This in itself is no easy task. Craft beer is not pasteurised, so it all natural and loaded with heaps of ... Read More »
Ocean Dunes Golf Club in Phan Thiet is a national tourism treasure that Vietnam should preserve for generations to come. Unfortunately it is now under threat of demolished if new owners have their way. And it is not just golfers and tourism officials fighting to save the course. But Ocean Dune Golf Club members and people who invested money in the course are taking up the ... Read More »
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