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...Records as the largest in the world; and one of its 63 discos is among the world's three biggest. Here, in fact, is a travel agent's dream: first-class services at Third World prices, exoticism crossed with elegance. With the Thai baht tied to the declining dollar, Thailand has come to mean the "Land of the Free" in more ways than one. Yet at the same time, the sinuous grace of the land is matched by its bilingual efficiency (a visitor at Bangkok's spanking new airport can go from touchdown to taxi in roughly 15 minutes...
...Thailand afflicted with many of the tensions that have brought down paradisal Asian escapes like Sri Lanka and the Philippines. On the map, the kingdom is ringed by countries that sound ominous: the People's Republic of Kampuchea, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma. Yet the land itself, for all its cyclone-cycle coups, is a pocket of relative calm and one of Washington's surest friends: the more the government changes, the more the monarchy stays the same...
Suddenly, then, Thailand has been thrown into the spotlight like a freshly discovered starlet. Thai restaurants have become the trendy's choice from Kansas City to Tokyo, and the newly crowned Miss Universe is a Thai (though a resident of what Thais call their 74th province, California). SPORTS ILLUSTRATED posed this year's splashy swimsuit issue on Thailand's beaches, and a new Orient Express is scheduled to start its luxury runs from Bangkok to Singapore in less than two years. As fast as Thailand has come to Hollywood (there are scores of Thai restaurants on Melrose Avenue alone), Hollywood...
...Thailand's dance of the seven veils begins in Bangkok. The capital is a crowded, polluted, traffic-choked mess of some 7 million people. It is also a lyrical place where it seems almost natural to spend a morning in a walled compound full of temples, an afternoon shopping for sapphires, silks and lacquerware in an air-conditioned arcade, an evening dining in spicy splendor along the Chao Phya River, and a night on Patpong, the most freewheeling bar strip in the world. Pleasure becomes business in a city that is both sedative and stimulant. At first light...
...northern town in the hills with something of the impenetrable allure of old China. Here one imagines the ghosts of opium warlords in the nearby Golden Triangle, or catches the sense of Viet Nam as one floats along the Mekong. Other, less adventurous souls simply sink into one of Thailand's seaside dreams: Pattaya, the "sea, sand and sin" city just 90 minutes from Bangkok; or Phuket, a Tahitian strip of bungalows along the emerald-green Andaman Sea that is home to Club Med and a host of other beach resorts; or, for the bargain-seeking pleasure lover, the Crusoe...