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Escape Portal Bangkok: Bangkok's First Cinematic Escape Room Experience
Escape Portal started at a dinner party. Someone mentioned, almost by accident, that May used to design escape rooms. That was the beginning of it.
A meeting the following week. A flight to Japan the month after. Construction starting in September 2025 on the 13th floor of a building so difficult to find, the founders decided to make the search part of the story.
Lily and May built something Bangkok has not seen before: a licensed 1920s Japanese temple experience where every puzzle serves the story, every detail has a reason, and the Japanese design team refused to allow a single wrong-era lightbulb.
Sixty minutes inside. You will be talking about it for longer than that.
Ready to step through?
Mongolia: What Nobody Tells You Before You Go
Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country on earth. Three million people. A territory four times the size of Germany. Most of it has no roads, no fences, and no buildings.
A third of the population still lives nomadically, moving home with the seasons, herding livestock across land that belongs to everyone and no one. This is not a museum exhibit. It is a living culture navigating its own complex present.
We spent six days in the Gobi Desert with Ami, a guide who was born into a nomadic family in western Mongolia and has spent her life moving between two worlds. What she shared over several long desert evenings, about daily ger life, the real price of a horse, how Mongolians greet each other by season, and what it means to leave a place without a trace, is the kind of knowledge you will not find in a standard travel article.
The sky at night is genuinely different. Everything else, you will have to go and see for yourself.
People Of Mongolia: Ami
Ami was born in a ger in the middle of July at sunset in western Mongolia. Her mother had no experience with childbirth. The ambulance did not arrive in time. She came into the world the way people did in ancient times.
She believes this shaped everything about her.
Eight years later her parents sold their herd and moved to Ulaanbaatar so their children could go to school. Five years after that, a painting by Egon Schiele pulled her to Vienna. She worked at the Venice Art Biennale, saw the sea for the first time on the Amalfi Coast, survived a storm in the open ocean, and came home.
"Somehow, I always feel that it calls me back," she says of Mongolia.
This is her story, in her own words.
Electric Sheep Bangkok: The Restaurant That Cooks Without Olive Oil
Electric Sheep started with a rule. Every ingredient on the plate must come from Thailand. No olive oil from Spain. No capers from Italy. No imported flour, spirits, or wine.
Chefs Amerigo Tito Sesti and Yoan Martin spent years earning a Michelin Star before walking away from imported kitchens to build something entirely from what is here. The result is Mediterranean cuisine that tastes like nothing else in Bangkok, because it could only have been made in Bangkok.
Come in sceptical. Leave wanting to understand how they did it.
Ready to find your table?
Thailand Visa Guide for Expats and Digital Nomads
Thailand has some of the best long-stay visa options in the world right now. The DTV alone has made Bangkok one of the most accessible cities on the planet for remote workers. But the rules have tightened, rejection rates are up, and getting this wrong means leaving the country and starting the whole process over from outside Thailand.
This guide covers the four main long-stay options for 2026: the DTV, the LTR, the Thailand Privilege Card, and the Retirement visa. What each one actually requires, who it suits, and the things most guides either get wrong or leave out entirely.
Ready to figure out which one is yours?
Gelior Gelato Bangkok: The Place That Fits a Life Into Every Cup
Gelior Gelato started with a memory. Every city Kimmy has ever visited, what she remembers afterwards is the ice cream she had there. That instinct became a gelato place in Bangkok, built around the idea of fitting a whole life experience into one small scoop.
She and Tim spent over a decade in Japanese fine dining before choosing Bangkok as the city to open their first place together. The flavors show it. Thai jasmine rice. Salted egg yolk caramel shoyu. Lemongrass and cardamom sorbet. Around 12 in the case on any given day, two rotating out every week, all of them made fresh.
People walk in skeptical. They leave wanting more. That shift, Kimmy says, is the whole reward.
Ready to find your flavor?
Bangkok for Beginners
Most people visit Bangkok and think they've seen it. They've seen the postcard version. The temples, the rooftop bars, the malls on Sukhumvit. That's a real city, just not the one the people who actually live here inhabit.
Erick Prince has been to 95 countries and lived in 11. He's based in Bangkok now, and this is his list of the places that will teach you something a standard itinerary won't. Not highlights. Not hidden gems in the Instagram sense. Ten spots that reveal how the city actually thinks, eats, parties, and reinvents itself.
Ready to meet the Bangkok the locals don't always tell you about?
Moving to Bangkok: Your First Week Guide
Moving to Bangkok? Whether you're relocating, staying long-term, working remotely as a digital nomad, or simply exploring the city before making the move, this guide covers everything you need for your first week in Bangkok. Learn how to choose the right neighborhood, understand visa options, find accommodation, get a local SIM card, manage your money, download essential apps, and build your everyday life with practical tips from a Bangkok local.
Cost of Living in Bangkok for Expats (2026): The Real Numbers
Bangkok's cost of living lives in the space between street food stalls and rooftop cocktails, between a ฿10,000 studio and a ฿70,000 one, between what you save and what you choose to spend on anyway.
Here, the numbers tell two stories at once. One is a city that still rewards a simple life with cheap, excellent food and low daily friction. The other is a city that has quietly caught up to European prices for the things that used to be its bargain, wine, nightlife, imported comforts.
It is a budget shaped less by the city than by the life you decide to build inside it.
Ready to find out what your money actually buys here?
Chiang Mai - Where Northern Thailand Slows You Down
There are places that invite you to arrive and places that gently ask you to stay. Chiang Mai belongs to the second kind.
Surrounded by mountains forests and softer air Chiang Mai moves at its own pace. Mornings are quiet afternoons unfold slowly and evenings feel unhurried. Ancient rituals coexist with modern creativity and slowing down feels natural rather than intentional.
Basic Thai Phrases All Travellers Must Know
Thai is a tonal language, which means the same word can change its meaning depending on the tone. A small shift in pitch can completely transform what you are saying, so listening carefully matters more than speaking fast. Politeness is also part of every sentence, and adding khrap or kha shows respect and makes daily conversations smoother.
Want to know the most common mistakes travellers make when speaking Thai?
The North of Koh Phangan: The Part Most Tourists Never See
Most people never make it to the north. They find their place in the south or west and stay there.
But just twenty minutes away the island shifts The roads get quieter the pace slows down and everything feels a little more real
This is where Koh Phangan opens up in a different way
Open the guide and explore the part of the island most people never see
Getting Around Koh Phangan
Koh Phangan does not follow fixed routes. How you move shapes what you discover.
Read the full article and explore the island with intention.
Learn more about Thai Culture
Thailand is welcoming, but deeply nuanced. Small gestures carry meaning, and harmony is valued more than confrontation.
Understanding a few cultural subtleties changes how the country responds to you.
Want to move through Thailand with more awareness and ease?
Talad Noi & Song Wat: Bangkok's Best Hidden Walk for Culture, Heritage & Authentic Local Life
Talad Noi and Song Wat offer one of Bangkok’s most textured walks. Here, old metal workshops sit next to restored warehouses, contemporary galleries share walls with family-run businesses, and century-old buildings quietly transform into cafés and cocktail bars.
It is a district where Bangkok’s past and present overlap naturally, without feeling staged.
Ready to explore the city where it still feels lived in?
Delicious Northern Thai Cuisine
Northern Thai food is earthy comforting and deeply connected to place. It is less sweet more herbal and often slower cooked than food from other regions of Thailand. Sticky rice replaces jasmine rice meals are shared and flavours build gently rather than hitting all at once. Many dishes come from family kitchens markets and traditions passed down over generations rather than restaurants chasing trends.
Which Northern Thai dish stayed with you the longest or which one are you most curious to try next?
A Full-day Guide to Bangkok Old Town
A thoughtfully curated full-day journey through Bangkok’s historic Old Town, where riverside life, iconic landmarks and everyday routines come together. From an early morning walk through the flower market to sunset views by Wat Arun, this guide follows the city the way a former Thammasat student would show it to friends and family.
Ready to experience the real heart of Bangkok beyond the obvious highlights?
How To Get To Northern Thailand: Best Routes to Chiang Mai & Beyond
Chiang Mai is the cultural and creative heart of northern Thailand. Surrounded by mountains forests and slower rhythms it still remains one of the easiest places in the country to reach.
Whether you are coming from Bangkok another Thai city or abroad here are the most practical and comfortable ways to arrive.
Want to know the best option for your trip?
Our Favorite Beaches in Koh Phangan
Koh Phangan has beaches for every kind of day from calm hidden bays to long stretches of soft sand with clear water. These are the places we return to because they stay beautiful and easy to enjoy.
Which one will you check out first?
Best Sunset Spots in Koh Phangan
Koh Phangan has some of the strongest sunset spots in the Gulf with open horizons and relaxed beaches that make the evening feel effortless. We picked the places where the light works best and the atmosphere stays calm.
Where will you watch your first sunset?