Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Says on the cover that the real life exploits of Bangkok’s legendary expatriates are often stranger then fiction
Bangkok Babylon
What you need to know before your trail
Twenty five stories from those who know and have lived in Thailand as expats and who have seen various sides to the country from a very unique angles. And there are quite some unusual stories too – everything from an elephant trainer who has set up a school especially for the air, an author of twenty five travel books including the Lonely planet guides to Thailand and Canadian disc jockey.
See Thailand and Bangkok through their eyes!
Travel Guide
In the author’s foreword in the book, he states that “One of the reasons I migrated to Thailand was because it had the most interesting expatriate community I’d encountered anywhere in the world”
Well now – that had us intrigued from the word go and what a world you enter! There are a whole range of people who have experience of a different kind of Thailand each time. But seeing someone set up an Elephant training school, see how the writer for Lonely planet sees the places he writes about and how members of the CIA write of their experiences seems like these people are sitting next to you in a bar and telling you their deepest darkest secrets.
In Thailand foreigners are known as Farangs and it’s clear that despite those who speak fluent Thai and blend in well to their surroundings will always be considered as farang.
We would never be able to have the experiences that some of these people have but what a way to delve into this world not as a tourist – even a literal one – but a real expat experience.
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