Muay thai-Thai Boxing
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Muaythai-Thai Boxing
The sport of Muay Thai, or Thai Boxing, is immensely popular in the Kingdom. Fights are broadcast on TV almost nightly, every sizable city has a boxing ring, and the top fighters are all household names. Boys start training as young as 7 to become professional boxers. The biggest and most prestigeous stadiums in the country are Lumpini and Ratchadamnoen in Bangkok, which hold fights on alternating nights so that there is a program every night.
In Muay Thai, there are five three-minute rounds with two-minute breaks in between, and every fight is preceeded by a symbolic dance by both fighters to pay homage to their teachers. Fights are accompanied by live music played by a ringside band with traditional instruments.
I attended a program at Lumpini in January 2005 that included 8 fights (although we missed the first 2). Ticket prices had just been raised (at least for tourists), so ringside seats were 1500 Baht and second level were 800 Baht. We opted for second level, which turned out to be right behind the ringside section, still very close to the action. The fights were fast and furious, with 3 ending in a knockout. Although it was quite expensive, it was definitely worth the experience.
List of Bangkok Muaythai Stadiums
Lumpini Stadium
Rama IV Road, Bangkok
Tel: (662) 252-8765, 251-4303, 253-7702, 253-7940
Fight Nights: Tuesdays and Fridays from 6.30 p.m, Saturday afternoons 5-8 p.m., Saturday nights from 8.30 p.m.
Ticket prices: 500, 1,000, 1,500 Baht (ringside)
Ratchadamnoen Stadium
Ratchadamnoen Nok Avenue
Tel: (662) 281-4205, 280-1684-6
Fight Nights: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Sundays, starting at 6.30 p.m.
Ticket Prices: 500, 1,000, 1,500 Baht (ringside); special discount on Sunday nights
Channel 7 Stadium
Behind the old Northern Bus Terminal (Morchit), opp. Chatuchak Park, Bangkok
Tel: (662) 272-0201
Fight Schedule: Sundays, from 1.45 p.m., third Wednesday of each month starting at 12.00 noon.
Ticket prices: Free admission
Experience a day at Bang Sai
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BANG SAI, a project of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand, was created to keep traditional Thai crafts alive.
The Museum shop’s sells centre-produced handicrafts and features museum-like galleries with paintings, sculptures ceramics, and other ads. text door are workshop for drawing, mask-making, and weaving rattan furniture. There is also a small village with traditional wooden houses around a lake, designed to reflect the local architecture of various Thai regions. Here you’ll find silk and cotton fabrics from the north, pottery from the Nodheast, foods of the central plains,and many other local products.
DETAILS: Admission: Bt100 for adults and Bt5O for kids. Some animal : attractions may carry a small additional fee.
HOW T0 GET THERE: Car or Taxi: Take highway 37 to Aytltthaya. Boat : Many tour boats include the Bang Sai Crafts Village in their Ayutthaya itinerary Bus: To Ayutthaya from Morchit Bus Terminal.
FULL MOON PARTY DANCE FESTIVAL: KOH PHANGAN
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Koh Phangan is a really particular spot, there are few places in this reality where you can survive away your desert island dreams of palm trees and light-colored sand beaches, and yet get a blinding night away at a rocking company every month. With the international notoriety that the Full Moon Party has gained as being one of the biggest and better beach bashes in the reality, we go much than our impartial percentage of hedonists gracing our shores. Each year the picture here grows with the ever-increasing amount of company congregation that take, bringing their mates and spreading the vibe.
Haad Rin is house to the Full Moon Party and too houses about 3-5000 quite angry folk; it is the island’s nightlife capital and has Koh Phangan’s biggest density of beach clubs that jointly place on the eventual travellers go jointly. There are over 12 leading stable systems running the duration of Had Rin beach, catering for 8000 to 12,000 punters in reduced season 15,000 to 20,000 in higher season and up to 30,000 at New Year. Within this transitory crew of company animals some extremely gifted DJ’s give through, banging away their wares to the raging lunar explorers that have landed on planet company. The Full Moon is far much than a company; it is Had Rin’s dancing music festival, with everything from drum and bass to full-on psy-trance.
This broad, sandy beach in the south of Pha Ngan island is one of the almost lovely ones. Had Rin is really comprised of two favorite beaches, Rin Nai beach on the west position of the peninsula and Rin Nok on the eastward position. From Rin Nai beach you can view Koh Samui really understandably. This is too a good spot to arrest the sundown. On the beach of Rin Nok is Bang Rak dock where the ferryboats from Koh south Samui come and depart daily. Rin Nok beach is easily known among Thai as easily as the alien tourist for its “Full Moon Party. This place is ranked as the third almost lovely place in the reality to regard the complete moon
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