- What to visit in Pattaya for shopping
- Things to do in Pattaya
- Gastronomic and cultural fun
Thailand knows how to surprise its guests. Any tourist will find what to visit in Pattaya, Bangkok, Phuket or Phi Phi. The main thing is to decide on your own goals and desires just before the trip, in order to choose the right place of rest. For example, Pattaya is suitable for young, active travelers who dream of a vibrant nightlife, parties under the starry sky on the seashore, incendiary dancing until the morning in night bars and, perhaps, some piquant adventures.
What to visit in Pattaya for shopping
Many tourists know that Thailand and its resorts are not only a beach pastime, but also great shopping. In the same Pattaya, you can find an insane number of small souvenir shops and huge shopping and entertainment centers, where you can spend the whole day unnoticed.
It is clear that most of the shopping establishments are concentrated in the center, in the same place where the most active tourist life takes place - on Second Road and Beach Road. But with the markets, on the contrary, there is some problem - there are not so many of them as tourists would like. The main goods in the markets are items produced by local artisans, including ceramics, souvenirs, and traditional clothing.
Pattaya is also well known to lovers of precious stones and metals. A visit to jewelry centers is included in the program of each excursion route around the city. The guides immediately warn that you cannot buy goods of this kind from your hands, because there is a risk of falling into a fake, which will then be confiscated at customs upon departure from the country.
Things to do in Pattaya
There is no problem with what to visit in Pattaya on your own, the city is perfectly prepared to receive tourists. It remains only to choose a direction. For example, the following entertainment options are possible:
- Nong Nooch, an exotic tropical garden;
- a zoo, the main inhabitants of which are handsome tigers;
- elephant trekking in the surrounding jungle;
- elephant show;
- visit to Koh Lan, coral island;
- Khmer temples;
- crocodile farm.
There is no need to take a guide for walks in the Nong Nooch tropical garden, natural attractions do not require translation. This exotic park has various botanical gardens, a garden with giant stones, huge sculptures using flower pots.
Siraca is a tiger zoo, opened not so long ago, but very popular with visitors to Pattaya. Its main difference from other zoos in the world is that there are no cells in the usual sense. Visitors observe the life of animals in their natural habitat. In addition to tigers, there are many other animals here, and various performances are often held where animals perform, including tigers, elephants and crocodiles.
Elephants are the most popular animals in the vicinity of Pattaya, so they become participants in many shows and entertainment for tourists. The most vivid impressions await guests in the so-called Elephant Village. Here there is a live contact of tourists with the largest animals on the planet, various show programs with the participation of giants are organized, you can see animals in their natural environment.
Top 10 attractions in Pattaya
Gastronomic and cultural fun
One of the new attractions in Pattaya resort is the floating market. Compared to its "terrestrial counterparts", it has a rather modest area; among those on the water, it is the first in the world. It resembles a familiar shopping and entertainment center, only the shops are set up in hut houses on stilts, and customers ply on fragile boats between them - a sort of rural Thai idyll.
Pattaya offers guests another amazing entertainment - Mini Siam Park, the opportunity to see all the sights of the country in one place. This park is divided into two parts, the first one contains reduced copies of the most famous monuments and architectural masterpieces of Thailand itself. The second one initially exhibited copies of brands of architecture from European countries, but now the collection has expanded significantly. You can see the most famous buildings, sculptures and monuments of the New World and even Africa.
There are also monuments in Pattaya, a visit to which is the "sacred duty" of every tourist. One of such remarkable places is the Big Buddha Hill. It is not only a place of religious worship, but also an important object of national culture. Of course, the central place is occupied by a gilded statue of a deity, to which 120 steps lead. There are several rituals that must be performed, such as counting the steps ascending and descending, buying incense for the Buddha, and symbolic donations for the monks.
