Field Guide 01 — Bangkok (PDF + EPUB)

The honest Bangkok guidebook, by people who live here. Bangkok is the city that never quite closes, and it does not need your schedule to feel sorry for it. This is the guide we'd give a friend: the short version in six lines, then the detail.

Inside:

• Visa, TDAC and money without the forum myths; the Simbye eSIM code that saves you 15%
• BKK vs DMK, and the airport ranked by sanity
• BTS, MRT, river boats, and why the tuk-tuk is a ฿150 amusement ride, not transport
• Every neighbourhood honestly ranked, with a verdict (Old Town, Sukhumvit, Riverside, Silom/Sathorn, Ari, Khao San, Chinatown)
• Day 1 the temple circuit · Day 2 Old Town and Chinatown on foot · Day 3 markets, canals and the floating-market question · Day 4+ Ari, the riverside and the day trips
• Street food by neighbourhood and by dish, with the fair price and the tourist-strip price side by side
• A Bangkok day in food, 6am to 3am; 15 dishes with Thai script and how to order them
• Temples beyond the big three; Muay Thai, night markets and rooftops without the minimum-spend sting
• A full chapter of honest warnings: the gem scam, the closed-temple scam, meter refusals, Khao San buckets, the September floods, what's actually illegal
• 26 phrase cards, a three-budget cost table, and a 10-question FAQ

75 pages. PDF (6×9, phone-friendly, bookmarked, clickable links) + EPUB for Kindle, Apple Books and Kobo. Edition 2026.1, prices checked September 2026. Buyers get the 2027 refresh free. Nobody paid to be in this book; a few booking links earn us a small commission at no cost to you, and we say so.

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