LANZAROTE : RARE MODERN VILLA
Brand new 5 bedroom teak wood holiday home in Bangkok Taling Chan
district.
It
s by Thanon Wongwan Rob Nok and by the Klong Bang Tal - 5
minutes drive to South Bus Terminal (towards Kanchanaburi, Cha
Am, Hua
Hin, Phuket, Krabi and Malaysia) on Thonburi & 15 minutes to Chao
Phraya River, Khaosan Rd, the Old King s
Palace & the Wat Pho. There
is also a frequent bus to Suvarnabhumi Airport.
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check it out
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lat=13.79381307 latitude lon=100.408499781 longitude
Around are traditional houses with
orchards, gardens, peace and clean
air. Suit family with children and animals as the place is safe and
has
a
terrace under the elevated on stilts house. Goes cheap, even short let
- as I can t go on holidays to Bangkok as
often as I use to go. At the
moment stays there my daughter with her children, but she can move to
my sister in law
house just the next door.
A much better option of
staying in Bangkok than the town centre, with it s noise,
pollution,
traffic jams and crowds of tourists. In a Taling Chan home-stay you
will immerse yourself in a traditional
lifestyle and learn a little
bit about Thai culture and customs.
Walks through the fruit orchards
and flower
groves make a very challenging experience. You can feel
here like living in the traditional thai willage - yet 5 minutes
walk
is 7/11 shop, cash machine and a daily street market. A short ride
there is a famous traditional thai floating
market in Taling Chan by
the Chakphra Canal.
There are several nice homestays in that area -
old thai teak wood
houses on stilts just overlooking slowly moving
canals. You are in the middle of verdant and vast, lush gardens.
There
is nothing comparable to it in the whole of Thailand - a dream student
home stay or a holiday
accommodation.
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There is something subtly exotic about wood. No other substance seems
to
mature in the same way, changing it s texture and smell in a
second life that defies life s normal rhythm.
The
traditional Thai teak house represent a style of living that is
almost absent from Bangkok these days - with citywide
modernisation,
it is hard to find older houses that are still in use.
Villages such as Lampang in the North,
featuring predominantly teak
houses, are becoming more and more rare as people switch to modern
building materials.
Built around the concept of simplicity, Thai stilt houses were the
functional solution to a hot climate in the
days before air-
conditioning.
The gap between the floor and ground enables a cool breeze to to
naturally
ventilate the entire house, and the open window style still
in practice today further aids this process.
Building
with native teakwood gave the houses a natural beauty that
is still imitated in today s architecture (think of the
sweeping,
upturned eaves of many Thai roofs.)
Prized for it s durability and attractive finish, teak has been
logged almost to the point of extinction, and the magnificent trees
(sometimes reaching 50m in height) are today
rarely found outside
dedicated plantations.
However, there remain some people trying to revive the traditions of
teak workmanship, incorporating it into new homes and proving that
old materials can be re-used with stunning effect.