Sea, sun and sand make Pattaya a favorite holiday destination of most visitors. Pattaya is one of the most famous beach resorts in Asia. The Pattaya beach, a cosmopolitan seashore buzzes with activity. Relaxing and enjoying is all one needs to do on a holiday to a place like Pattaya. Pattaya beach can be divided into various regions, beginning from Pattaya Neau or North Pattaya, Pattaya Klang or Middle Pattaya and Pattaya Tai or South Pattaya. The Jomtien beach which extends from South Pattaya is a peaceful and quieter beach. The beautiful beaches are free of cost but you have to pay for services rendered to you. A perfect day on the Pattaya beach would include relaxing idly on the beach, sipping a chilled beer, ordering a delicious sea-food lunch barbequed in front of you and enjoying a number of soothing beauty treatments and massages. There are lots of water [...]
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Pattaya city is situated along the Pattaya Bay on the East Coast of the Gulf of Thailand around 160km south of Bangkok. Pattaya go its name from the march of King Taksin and his army to encounter the army of Nai Klom but Nai Klom admired Phraya Tak’s dignified conduct and gave in without a fight. The place where the two armies came across each other was named ‘Thap Phraya’, meaning ‘Army of the Phraya’. A few years later the name was changed to ‘Phatthaya’, meaning ‘wind blowing from southwest to northeast at the beginning of the rainy season’. Now the city is officially called Pattaya. Pattaya was initially a small fishing village in the 60s. On 26th April1961 around 100 American servicemen fighting in Vietnam came to Pattaya for a holiday, since then Pattaya turned into one of the most popular beach resorts in Asia. The small fishermen’s huts [...]