The hot southern sun, pure water and entertainments – all of these brings tourists to Thailand. Pattaya City has received popularity in 60th, when became favorite vacation place for American the soldiers and seamen who literally occupied local coast. Since then it has grown from a fishing small village up to a well known resort. |
Pattaya is located in 180 kilometers to a south-east from Bangkok, at coast of Gulf of Siam. The name of city designates the name of the wind blowing from a south-west on north-east before the beginning of a rain season. It takes about one hour on the way to Pattaya from the Suvarnabhumi Airport. It is a beach resort - city of night owls. There are as much people on the streets at night as during the day time and some times even more. With approach of darkness Pattaya changes. The quay is filled in with multi-colored neon lights of restaurants, bars and night clubs. At full safety at any time, fans of a night life can at last completely relax, have fun and forget about all problems! |
The experts say there is the microclimate in Pattaya. Therefore the sea hurricanes do not reach here and the sea is almost always quiet. However the light sea breeze brings some cool air at nights. The city lasts along sea coast. The center of Pattaya is the Quay (Beach Road - goes along a lagoon), the Pattaya Second Road (in parallel Beach Road) and the Pattaya Third Road. There are lots of restaurants, bars, cafes, night clubs, big shopping centers and small shops where products from a bone are on sale, nacreous sea bowls, corals, the landscapes of Thailand executed by oil and a water color. Here all to services of tourists. It is possible to ride s jet scooter, a water ski or, having clung a long cable to a boat to have a flight above the sea on a parachute. |