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Discover the Thailand most tourists never see.

Weird attractions, strange museums, seasonal festivals, giant statues, scenic detours, and roadside oddities — an atlas for the curious.

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Mon-chan, the tan Shiba Inu mascot of Roadside Thailand in his olive paisley bandana Cinnamon, the squirrel sidekick of Roadside Thailand, holding an acorn

Hi, we're Mon-chan & Cinnamon! 🐕🐿️

We're the travelling duo behind Roadside Thailand. Mon-chan is the leader — a small Shiba with a big nose for the strange (and a touch defensive about anything bigger or fuzzier than he is) who barks "YEAH!" when he's thrilled. Cinnamon is the squirrel sub-leader: loves nuts, chatters, and bounces when excited. Together we sniff out the country's oddest corners and bring back the photos.

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Ancient City (Muang Boran)
🏛️ Museum

Ancient City (Muang Boran)

Billed as the world's largest open-air museum — a vast park, shaped like Thailand itself, scattered with full-size and scaled replicas of the country's greatest monuments, best explored by bicycle over a whole unhurried day.

📍 Samut Prakan, Mueang Samut Prakan 💴 Paid ⏱ Full day
The Erawan Museum
🏛️ Museum

The Erawan Museum

A colossal three-headed bronze elephant the size of a building, with a jewel-box temple-museum inside its belly and legs — climb a spiral staircase up through the body into a cosmic 'heaven' beneath the creature's heads.

📍 Samut Prakan, Samut Prakan 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day
Jay Fai
🍜 Food

Jay Fai

A 70-something street cook in ski goggles, working two flaming charcoal woks on a Bangkok sidewalk — and holder of a Michelin star. Her crab omelette and drunken noodles draw queues for hours.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day
Siriraj Medical Museum (The Death Museum)
🏛️ Museum

Siriraj Medical Museum (The Death Museum)

A cluster of medical museums inside Bangkok's oldest hospital — pathology, forensics, anatomy and parasitology galleries lined with preserved specimens, including the infamous mummified remains of a 1950s murderer.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day
Treepod Dining at Soneva Kiri
✨ Experience

Treepod Dining at Soneva Kiri

On a remote island, you climb into a woven bamboo pod shaped like a weaver bird's nest and are hoisted metres up into the rainforest canopy — while a waiter delivers each course by zip-lining through the trees.

📍 Trat, Ko Kut 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day
Wat Khao Chong Phran (The Bat Cave Temple)
🦊 Animals

Wat Khao Chong Phran (The Bat Cave Temple)

Every evening at dusk, an unbroken river of millions of wrinkle-lipped bats pours from a cliff cave beside this Ratchaburi temple for nearly an hour — one of the great wildlife spectacles of central Thailand.

📍 Ratchaburi, Photharam 🎫 Donation ⏱ Half day

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🎉 Festival Seasonal event

Songkran (Thai New Year)

For three days every April, the whole country turns into the world's biggest water fight — Thai New Year, where soaking strangers with buckets and hoses is both a blessing and a national pastime.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 🆓 Free ⏱ Full day 🗓 Apr 13 – Apr 15
🌞 Hot Season
Yi Peng & Loi Krathong
🎉 Festival Seasonal event

Yi Peng & Loi Krathong

On the full moon of the twelfth lunar month, Chiang Mai releases thousands of glowing paper lanterns into the night sky while rivers fill with candle-lit floats — Thailand's most luminous festival, doubled.

📍 Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai 🆓 Free ⏱ Half day 🗓 Nov 24 – Nov 25
🌤️ Cool Season
Lopburi Monkey Buffet Festival
🎉 Festival Seasonal event

Lopburi Monkey Buffet Festival

Once a year the old town of Lopburi lays out towering pyramids of fruit, vegetables, and sweets on red tablecloths in front of an ancient Khmer shrine — a lavish banquet held entirely for the city's thousands of resident macaques.

📍 Lopburi, Lopburi 🆓 Free ⏱ Half day 🗓 Nov 29
🌤️ Cool Season

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Ancient City (Muang Boran)
🏛️ Museum

Ancient City (Muang Boran)

Billed as the world's largest open-air museum — a vast park, shaped like Thailand itself, scattered with full-size and scaled replicas of the country's greatest monuments, best explored by bicycle over a whole unhurried day.

📍 Samut Prakan, Mueang Samut Prakan 💴 Paid ⏱ Full day
Ayutthaya River Prawns (Kung Mae Nam)
🍜 Food

Ayutthaya River Prawns (Kung Mae Nam)

The old capital's signature feast: enormous freshwater river prawns — often longer than your hand — grilled in the shell until the head fills with rich orange roe, served at riverside restaurants ringing the island city.

📍 Ayutthaya, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day
Baan Silapin (The Artist's House)
🎨 Art

Baan Silapin (The Artist's House)

A century-old wooden house on a Thonburi canal, now a bohemian café and gallery — best known for its free traditional Thai puppet shows performed beside the water beneath an old white stupa.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 🆓 Free ⏱ Half day
Ban Bat (The Monk's Bowl Village)
🏪 Old Shop

Ban Bat (The Monk's Bowl Village)

The last surviving alley of artisans who still hand-beat monks' alms bowls from eight pieces of metal — a tiny, fading craft community where you can watch each bowl hammered and fired the centuries-old way.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 🆓 Free ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

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Northern

4 discoveries

Chiang Mai 2 Chiang Rai 1 Mae Hong Son 1 Lampang Sukhothai Nan

Northeastern

2 discoveries

Nakhon Ratchasima Khon Kaen Udon Thani Ubon Ratchathani Buriram 1 Nong Khai 1

Central

41 discoveries

Bangkok 29 Ayutthaya 3 Nonthaburi Lopburi 1 Samut Prakan 2 Samut Songkhram 3 Nakhon Pathom 3

Eastern

2 discoveries

Chonburi 1 Rayong Chanthaburi Trat 1

Western

12 discoveries

Kanchanaburi 8 Ratchaburi 3 Phetchaburi Prachuap Khiri Khan 1

Southern

2 discoveries

Phuket Krabi 2 Surat Thani Songkhla Nakhon Si Thammarat Phang Nga

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