Last day in Thailand
All that’s left is kickboxing – tonight.
It’s been a fun 3 months! Before this assignment for Insight Guides, I hadn’t spent much time in Thailand. When you grow up having to spend your holidays every summer on some of the world’s best beaches (i.e. Queensland, Australia) you reach adulthood not really wanting to pass your leisure time lying about on a beach in Thailand. Instead, big cities beckon, mountains, exotic cultures – but definitely not beaches! Besides, being a pasty white fella, I got sunburnt enough as a kid to last several lifetimes! No more 
Anyway, as the photos will eventually show when published next year in Insight Guides’ Bangkok and Thailand books, this assignment has taken me all over Bangkok, up through the centre of the country to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, and all around the mountains surrounding those two cities. Then a big loop around the NE rural areas, and finishing back here in Bangkok. It’s been a blast and yes, I have to concede, I’m damn lucky to get paid to do this!
And in time there’ll be a hell of a lot more Thailand images that I’ll post for purchase on my online library of Southeast Asia travel images at www.indochinaimages.com
Here’s a few recent highlights. I’ll definitely be back to see more of this country…
Vertigo Restaurant at the Banyan Tree Hotel
Guardians surround the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Bangkok
Aisawan Thipphaya-at Pavilion, Bang Pa In Palace