Thailand with your family
Chapter One
Family Highlights of Thailand
Nowhere is the term 'developing world' as apt as in Thailand.
Few countries have changed so fast and so quickly over a single
generation. Children who used to play in the sand outside driftwood
shacks now run deluxe air-conditioned beach resorts with swimming
pools and spas: villages made of wood with dirt streets flocked with
black-painted bicycles are now cities of concrete and glass, rushing
headlong into the 21st century.
Despite all this, Thailand in many ways retains an almost childlike
innocence; a reverence for the past alongside a fervour for the future.
Anywhere in the country you can step out of the traffic into the calm
oasis of a Buddhist monastery and find an open welcome from the
resident monks. Travelling with children is a breeze. All Thais - and
I've yet to find an exception - seem to genuinely love children, and
are especially fascinated by small westerners, something they very
rarely see. While adults must negotiate commercial relationships and
practical matters, children are exempt. With their curious, kind and
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