Fifty years ago, Pattaya was a small fishing town. It has come up now to the favorite Southeast Asian vacation center that welcomes just about 5 million visitors a year. Unlike most other beach resorts, where natural surroundings are provided as attractions to appeal tourists, Pattaya makes an all-out attempt to feature the best of everything.
Pattaya Thailand welcomes just about 5 million visitors a year. The hospitable and smiling Thai nature boosts its publicity, often returning the visitors and permanently rising the number of new visitors.
Pattaya is about 170 kilometers southeast of Bangkok, nested on a picturesque bay on the East Coast of the Gulf of Thailand with a coastline of about 15 kilometers. Pattaya has a plain on the coast with a couple of high mountains in the south. The area on the east slopes down towards the sea on the west.
From a small fishing town in the early 1960s, Pattaya has come up to the favorite Southeast Asian vacation center. A fascinating escape where tourists,travelers and holiday makers from all over the world lay open an uncomparable range of options to relax during an exotic holiday beach vacation.
Unlike most beach resorts, where natural surroundings are utilized as attractions to appeal tourists, Pattaya makes an all-out attempt to feature the best of everything. Here, everything means really everything a tourist can imagine while on holiday: entertainment, recreation, sightseeing, sports, and fun. To say it simply, Pattaya is a absolutely paradise for every people, as it has a lot of magnets appropriate for all types of travelers. This is the place where you are able to fill your day, from twilight to break of dawn, with never ending activities, or you may prefer to do nothing at all and relax.
Pattaya currently integrates the pleasures of a first class beach resort, city-like shopping, dining and night amusement facilities with over 300 various hotels, thousands of restaurants, shops and bars. Additionally, you can find a broad range of recreational activities and sports including beaches, tennis courts, golf courses, go-kart, weight lifting, gyms for working out and Thai-boxing gear.
Pattaya provides a wide range of activities you can do. During the day, you may enjoy driving humble automatic mini-bikes or riding elephants, monster multicolored convertible Jeeps, or even monstrous motorcycles. Other people like to go for scuba diving and surfing, scooters, deep-sea fishing, water-skiing, speed boats, parasailing, shooting firearms, or aerial sports such as gliding ultra-lights and flying motor-propelled gliders. On the other hand, at night, you can find a lot of theaters, bars, restaurants, night clubs, cabaret shows, billiard & snooker clubs, bowling halls, sauna & massage parlors, discos, not to forget its really unbelievable shopping areas which is available non-stop both day-and-night.
