Thailand Travel Guides 2025

Written by the people who run the trips

These guides are written by the people who run the trips: Safarine staff in Kanchanaburi and Chiang Mai, drawing on three decades of working in the same provinces. They exist because the questions we are asked by email are almost always the same ones, and they deserve a fuller answer than a booking form allows.

What the guides cover

You will find them grouped by subject. Wildlife covers elephants and how to tell a genuine sanctuary from a rebranded riding camp, along with birds, forest and what is realistic to see. Food and agriculture goes into rice, farms, markets and the meals that come out of them. Temples and culture explains what you are looking at in Ayutthaya and in the northern wats, and how to behave in them without anxiety. Destinations sets out each region season by season. Activities covers trekking, kayaking, cycling and what each one demands of you physically.

Honest by design

None of it is written to push a booking. Several of these guides will tell you that a particular month is wrong, or that a well-known site is worth skipping. That is the point: the useful version of local knowledge includes what not to do.

If a guide leaves a question open, ask us. Our trips are quoted individually, guided in English and French, and run in small groups of typically two to eight. We reply personally.