<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Thailand</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</link><description>Thailand</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Phuket: Should You Go?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44806-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44806-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:33:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Now the sea is still again.<br>The beach is clear. The tropical sun casts its usual comforting shadows across the dunes. And Mary Davis, a 10-day refugee from the London winter, sits in umbrella shade by the endless pool of the Sheraton Grande Laguna, a perfectly happy tourist on Thailand's...]]></description><author> Steve Hendrix</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airlines,   Tour Operators Rush to  Offer Deals to Thailand]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44821-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44821-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:33:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Asian tourism officials are entreating tourists to return to Phuket and other regions hit by the Dec. 26 tsunami.]]></description><author> Carol Sottili</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Bangkok, Fitting Right In]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63740-2004Jan30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63740-2004Jan30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:33:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bangkok, listen. Bangkok, no. I said <em>no</em>.<br>I do not want a suit that's specially made. I rarely tie a tie. My wife may gawk at fitted Oriental dresses, she may stroke their smooth silk. She will not buy. When we travel to this city famous for its silks -- where everywhere we look...]]></description><author> Peter Mandel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['In Residence At the Atlanta']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47913-2003Oct31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47913-2003Oct31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:33:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[No one in Bangkok, not even my old Thai-hand friends, had heard of the Atlanta, and when my taxi pulled up in front of the hotel, I began to see why. A dirty-gray concrete mid-rise tucked away at the end of a nondescript side street, the Atlanta is easy to miss. From the outside, it looks like another one of the city's Vietnam War-era R&#38;R hotels turned low-budget dives, the kind of place that has all the mod cons -- and none of them works.]]></description><author> Donald A. Ranard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thailand Like a Local]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11833-2002Sep27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11833-2002Sep27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/asiamideast/thailand</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:33:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[How can travelers maximize their experience in an exotic country? Simple: through a resident's eyes.]]></description><author> K.C. Summers</author></item></channel></rss>