Berlitz Pocket Guide Bangkok (Travel Guide eBook)

Book excerpt: Cosmopolitan Bangkok blends evocative street markets with glitzy modern malls, Buddhist philosophy with animism, and traditional reserve with lashings of fun. Berlitz Pocket Guide Bangkok is a concise, full-colour travel guide to this vast, frenetic city; small but packed with useful facts, inspiring photography and handy tips to help you uncover the best sights and experiences. Inside Bangkok Pocket Guide: Where To Go details all the key sights in the city, while handy maps on the cover flaps help you find your way around, and are cross-referenced to the text. Top 10 Attractions gives a run-down of the best sights to take in on your trip. Perfect Day provides an itinerary of the city. What To Do is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, including shopping in the city's markets, finding the best nightlife and catching a Muay Thai match. Essential information on Bangkok's culture, including a brief history of the city. Eating Out covers the country's best cuisine. Curated listings of the best hotels and restaurants. A-Z of all the practical information you'll need. About Berlitz: Berlitz draws on years of travel and language expertise to bring you a wide range of travel and language products, including travel guides, maps, phrase books, language-learning courses, dictionaries and kids' language products.