Traveling in Thailand
October 15, 2009 - Posted in Pattaya Articles
When cut in the holidays, we all want and far and relax on our stressful lives forgotten, and that's a good thing. This is not only a good thing for you, but it's a good thing for all those who take advantage of you, and possibly to relieve your valuables.
As a traveler, if you were to Disney World or Thailand, you must be aware of your surroundings. What in your destination, you can bet there are people waiting there it their task toTake advantage of relaxing in your state. Do not take for granted the safety of the resort.
As with any trip to anywhere in the world, you need to be aware of your surroundings, especially in tourist areas where you may be victim to a repulsive element. I covered the basics in 5 rules are not a stupid tourist.In Thailand, the real danger may not be what you expect. Thailand than in any other place in the world, has its share of crime and fraud artists. While you are currentlyFor your valuables and personal safety, it is fairly easy to ignore certain aspects of the trip, which of course you can take back home. Under these aspects of travel, of course could very well lead to a premature death.
Crossing streets get crowded clubs and traffic accidents a year living in Thailand more than any other activity, including crime. Has only a few days in the last year there were over 226 road fatalities in Thailand and a club fire in Santika Pub leave that86 people in hospital and 59 people were killed. Of the 59 deaths in the Club 21 foreigners.
Nightclubs are the first piece of this awareness trifecta. Some clubs can be very large and the people in a pack, if that's your thing then you really should take a walk around the club and check it out. Make sure you know where the exits are, and where possible ensure that they are not locked. Last year, a club in Pattaya caught fire shortly before the opening by which a fair number of people dying.The fire marshal is intended for an electrical fire and was locked chains on the secondary outputs in order to keep people free of charge at the entry. This Year's Eve saw a fire in the Santika Published by fireworks lit from the inside as part of the celebration that beat the foam acoustic treatment on the ceiling.
Small clubs deserve as much attention as they are completed mostly dark and hidden. A large proportion of fires that have not happened in Thailand, electric. The electric in most of theseBodies is substandard at best, criminal at worst. Club fires are not on the agenda in Thailand, but they do happen, and when they occur, there are usually involved deaths. Go to the clubs and have a good time if that's what you do. Just be sure and visit the places that you are in, they can only save.
Driving in Thailand
As with any other destination in the world, you can rent cars, trucks and motorcycles in Thailand. The best tip I can tell youNOT. All I have ever been in Thailand by emigrants, which has two-week vacationers who has driven in Thailand, met in an accident. It is not a question of if you are involved in an accident, but when.
Some were minor scratches, but others have required surgery and long hospital stays. Last year, a Thai woman on her way home from work one night in Pattaya ride her bike fell into a pit in the street, which was 6 meters deep and 4 meters wide. The contractor is working onthe street does not believe that a barricade was not required.
Sometimes accidents are due to poor road conditions, but not rare in road accidents in Thailand, from rural areas to big cities, you can chalk up to bad driving. Motorcycles weave in and out of traffic as quickly as they can defend their cars and place, with a passion. My second trip to Thailand, I saw two motorcycle accidents in one night. The first motorcycle accident a taxi before a bust of baht, which opted to go cutabout him. The second accident, a motorcycle crashed into the rear of a Mercedes at high speed. My last trip when I was on the way back from Mukdahan bus station in Pattaya we are torn into pieces on a motorcycle on the road with an apparent dead riders 100 feet.
A taxi from the airport to Pattaya my driver could not decide which track he was in the drive so that it the difference between the driving lanes, and cars for a half mile or so split decision. I thinkThe falang screaming in the back of his taxi unsettled him so he stopped.
The traffic in Bangkok is so bad that it is not uncommon for a motorcycle taxi directly to the curb, and take to the sidewalk. Driving is more of a sport in Thailand and a blood in the sport. The bad Asian driver may be a cliché cliché, but when it comes, Thai drivers, there is more truth than fiction, that the mood.
If that does not think you give to reconsider, while driving in the Kingdom then consider theBoth these articles:
In 1999, a study by GD Jacobs and Amy Aeron was done called Thomas, A REVIEW OF GLOBAL fatalities. It broke road fatalities by region with the countries of Asia with an overall 44% of all traffic fatalities worldwide. It was probably no surprise that Thailand has been the leader in traffic accidents around the world for some time. In 2004 it was estimated that Thailand had an accident rate of 6.6 per 10,000 drivers, has been compared to the whole of Europeat only 1.8 per 10,000 drivers.
Pichai TANEERANANON and grandpas SOMCHAINUEK I crash a study on bus in Thailand called BUS CRASH SITUATION IN THAILAND: Case Studies. The sheer number of bus crashes and fatalities per year in Thailand is breathtaking.
If you only still in Thailand then drive safely, you have an international driver's license or a Thai driver's license and insurance. If you are involved in an accident, you are most likely at fault has acted as a person and being seenif not you, that it paid fines.
Public transportation is the alternative and in most cases will be good. I'm on the motorcycle taxis, buses were taken to the country and used taxis. I still have a problem yet, but I know the odds are against me. With drivers sometimes work 12 -16 hours a day, it is difficult to get the kind of trip you know. As Elvis Costello would say: "Accidents will happen", but if your mind about you and your stay so conscious about our environmentthere's a good chance that we avoid the risk in one.
Walking on roads in Thailand
I'm from the streets of Bangkok, with whom I had been feared me at four clock in the morning and not even for my personal safety, although I very much aware of my surroundings. I can not say the same for the crossing of the roads in Thailand. Pedestrians are pretty to look at the targets and pedestrians in the crosswalk to be the mark.
Trust me drivers do not slow down, cross the street, if anythey are just honk the horn, to remind you of your impending doom if you should travel. Add in low light conditions, alcohol or even on both sides of this equation, and you have a recipe for disaster.
While Bangkok has many pedestrian bridges, the same can not be said frogger from other popular destinations such as Pattaya, where 2cnd street plays much like the old video game. 2cnd Street in Pattaya beach road and have a very long distance without lights and at night theLighting is best patchy in some places.
A study conducted of pedestrian accidents in Kohn Kaen province, which has a population of 150,000 in 2002. In the study, they collected information about accidents involving pedestrians between the years 1998-2000. In 2000 there were over 4400 killed or injured pedestrians on streets Thailand with an estimated 65,000 traffic injuries and deaths. A study on investigation of accidents and unsafe pedestrian conditions in KohnKaen.
While crossing a road in Thailand, take your time and judge distances and car speed, so good you can even streets with little traffic, because by the time they take it too late and by some accident I've seen, it could no longer to identify to be much left.
As always, no matter where you are in the world, you make sure you are aware of your surroundings and in control of himself at all times, and you should be just fine.