Is Thailand still Safe?
This prognosis is for a week forward further than that I do not want to predict.
Many people wonder if they are still safe in Thailand and if they should cancel their holiday to Thailand or not. The more experienced traveler knows that the problems in Thailand almost never spill over to the tourists. The big expositions might be the bombs on New Year a few years ago when a few tourist die and injured.
The unrest are still very much controlled to the center of Bangkok to the big shopping malls but is that really something you want to see as a tourist? Now when the Red Shirts have moved from the area around old town the big destinations like Grand Palace are very safe to visit.
Next week the PAD (Yellow Shirts) will take to the streets and we do not know where they will gather or how many they will be. The risk for a big clash is off course a big risk and it could lead to civil war but the changes are very small. The army said they will move the Red Shirts within a few days and they probably do it before the PAD comes back on the streets.
If you want to avoid the trouble all together, you can just take a connection flight to Phuket or any of the other southern islands. You can also take a bus or taxi directly from Airport in Bangkok and never have to worry about what shirts to look out for.
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Mindstream
We try to stay neutral even if we sometimes biting our fists when people do not know the facts and press freedom stops us for publish something.
Klaus R. Rauter
Thank you for this article… I appreciate some realistic comments like yours.
Too much lies have been said and written in the news about the situation in Thailand by foreign media. Yesterday I did go to the Dusit Thani Hotel through Silom and Soldiers…. I say that Bangkok is safer than being at a subways-system in Europe at night time!! (Even now….)
I know of one guy from Europe who reported to the media in Europe that Roads from the north and north-east of Thailand have been shut down…. and much more!!!
What a joke is he…. He is privileged to be here in this beautiful country and then he lie about the facts here Thailand just to put himself into the limelight. – selfish!!!
Please keep on writing the facts as you do. Thank you
klaus