{"id":888,"date":"2013-11-03T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=888"},"modified":"2013-11-03T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T09:22:28","slug":"5-unusual-places-to-visit-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/888-5-unusual-places-to-visit-in-thailand","title":{"rendered":"5 unusual places to visit in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we decided to present five original places in Thailand that are rarely proposed by tour guides or book about Thailand (except for James Bond Island). Come on, let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-1\" id=\"tablepress-1\" style=\"max-width: 750px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/sam-pan-bok-ubon-ratchathani-196\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Pan Bok Ubon Ratchathani\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/villes\/ubon-ratchathani\/sam-pan-bok.jpg\" width=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\" valign=\"middle\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/sam-pan-bok-ubon-ratchathani-196\"><strong>Sam Pan Bok<\/strong><\/a> in the province of Ubon Ratchathani. Also named the Grand Canyon of Siam, it is an amazing place where nature has carved thousands (3000 if you believe its name) craters in the rock.<br \/>People do not expect to find such a landscape in Thailand!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/wat-lan-khuat-si-saket-132\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wat Lan Khuat Thailande\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/villes\/si-saket\/wat-lan-khuat.jpg\" width=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\" valign=\"middle\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/wat-lan-khuat-si-saket-132\"><strong>Temple of One Million Bottles<\/strong><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/wat-lan-khuat-si-saket-132\">Wat Lan Khwat<\/a> in Sisaket province. It is a temple built exclusively with empty bottles of glass and cement. An original idea for recycling\u00a0!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/james-bond-island-khao-lak-182\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Bond Island Phuket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/villes\/khao-lak\/koh-tapu-james-bond-island.jpg\" width=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\" valign=\"middle\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"gt-src-tools\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"gt-res-content\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/james-bond-island-khao-lak-182\"><strong>James Bond Island<\/strong><\/a>, the famous island seen in<em> The Man with the Golden Gun<\/em>. Thais call it Koh Tapu which means the nail island and it is true it looks like a nail in the sea<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/sanctuary-of-truth-pattaya-144\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sanctuaire de la V\u00e9rit\u00e9 Pattaya\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/villes\/pattaya\/pattaya-sanctuary-of-truth.jpg\" width=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\" valign=\"middle\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"gt-src-tools\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"gt-res-content\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/sanctuary-of-truth-pattaya-144\"><strong>Sanctuary of Truth<\/strong><\/a> in Pattaya. It is a beautiful and impressive building made entirely of wood without nails or screws using ancestral techniques.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n<td class=\"column-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phallus Shrine Bangkok\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/136\/323663357_5e9719427c_b.jpg\" width=\"374\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\" valign=\"middle\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Phallus Shrine in Bangkok near BTS Chitlom where you will find hundreds of penis sculptures placed there to pay respect to Chao Mae Tubtim figure of female fertility.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I would have added the huge Big Buddha at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/wat-muang-ang-thong-ang-thong-96\">Wat Muang in Ang Thong<\/a> but I put it a little too often in this type of selections;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we decided to present five original places in Thailand that are rarely proposed by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visit-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}